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I keep hearing people rave about Papazian's prickly pear mead. The few times I have had mead it I 'v enjoyed it quite a bit, so I'm going to give Papazian's recipe a try. But I cannot find prickly pear. Where dose one find 3lbs of prickly pear and not go broke in the progress?

Thanks for all the advice. I did an all grain brew buying the components separately I used an aerator stone prior to fermentation, then it fermented 2 weeks, racked it for another half week and bottled when the air lock had all but stopped bobbling (like once every 90-120 sec.). The initial...

I am at week two of the beer being in the bottle and it is well carbonated but is rather sweet. Can this be from using too much priming sugar? Is there anything I can do to cut the sweetness ( I found lacing the the glass with some bourbon or brandy helps a bit)?

I was brewing a batch of smoked porter, trying to clone captain lawrence (the one down side to moving to NOLA), and had a question and Mr. Google sent me this way. With my question answered, beer racked and tasting good so far how could I not join.

I was looking for something to do with spent grain and found a great bread recipe on one of the post via google. And now through one of the chats I have had some fears about a very active beer calmed.