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Anyone who does not think you can grow hops in scotland. About to brew these fresh picked from my garden goldings hops into this. It's the plants 2nd year and i already have 300g of dried and vac packed hops in my freezer from it and i still have about this again up pick. Grain bill: 4kg...

Ye all ready for consuming. All bulk aged for 2-3 years before bottling. I gave away my oldest bottle a 2014 number for some apples to make cider.

Just an update. This mead was tasting a little odd. So i chucked another 25g of challenger hops in then left it 6 more months to clear. It is a little odd now. Not terrible but not great. I think if i had chucked honey water and bread yeast together and left it 3 years it would have worked out...

Hi, this September i pressed 160 liters off cider in 2 batches. The first batch was mixed with 10% pears and "cider yeast" with a malolactic culture. the 2nd batch was 100% apples and used wine yeast. The dregs of both batches got added to a bucket. It was fremented out to dry when the 2nd...

Thanks. I had not thought about the disolved oxygen. the only real reason to top off at the bottling stage is to make the most of my brewing bucket. i can leave space for the head during fermentation.

I know that commercial brewers often brew a strong beer then dilute it before bottling. I find that with my brew in my bag method the size of the brew is limited by my 32l pot for the boil. I seam to get less, but sweeter, wart than i calculate every time. Then taking into account trub and yeast...

I have just got a new fridge, which means my old one is freed up to try making lager. Up till now i brew in the bag ale and stout along with mead for the last 10 years. I'm trying to keep it cheap and just pick up an STC-1000 for £8 and wire it up. My question is i have a brew belt i have used...

I have just chucked it straight in the washing machine and had my clothes come out covered in grain husks

Just a quick update on how this mead is clearing up. Might bottle soon but I'm a bit short on wine bottles so it might need to wait another year.

I know it is an old post. I brewed the 1879 version yesterday. My og was 1.086 with 23l in the the fermenter so I don't know what went wrong there. I'll see how it goes but I don't think it will be 5.16% .

Kiwi mead ready to bottle. Started on 25/3/16

Kiwi mead at 14 months. This might be its last racking. The citric acid burns from pealing 130 kiwis have healed now.

Coconut, papaya and honeydew melon mead. Just racked from primary and fruit pressed. Seam to have left myself shot of liquid so I think ill top up with honey water.

Any one had much luck with dumping honey and water on top of the dregs of a batch of beer? I have recently got back into beer after brewing exclusively mead and have decided to dump 8 kg of honey dissolved in 23l of water into the yeast and hops mess at the bottom of the bucket. I might add...