Recent content by NerdyMarie

Late to the game here, but figured I'd reply. I'm 90% sure that I have it figured out. We're mixing them up in the next hour or so, and SHOULD be frozen enough to try them later tonight (I hope?) Will be blogging the recipe tomorrow, if it works out. Side by side, though... homemade and store...

I posted the recipe for hop flavored dark chocolate truffles here: http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2010/09/08/hop-flavored-dark-chocolate-truffles/

Ummm.... Well..... How do I say this nicely... THANKS, but I'm really just looking for answers to the questions I asked, not condescending snark. :) Fatbloke: Forgot to mention, we have a small gift for the kid, and a bottle or two of ready-to-drink wine as the rest of the gift. That was...

In Minnesota, we can buy Winehaven (WineHaven | Home) mead pretty much anywhere I've seen. Not sure what their out of state distribution is like, though.

I really, really don't want to go to Babys R Us to buy our friend a baby shower gift for this weekend. Sounds about as bad as a wedding show... but with hormones. Anyway. I was thinking it'd be cool to do up a card that says we'll put on a batch of mead, the day she gives birth, that...

Sort of. Cuties is the brand name, and the are actually 2 varieties - the Clementines are the first batch, and last til around January or February. These are the "crack oranges", and what I like to use for mead. For a couple months after February, they go to their second variety, which is...

Awesome! Glad to hear that it went over so well! If you have a sec, mind posting that to my facebook page? ( Celebration Generation | Facebook ) I'm running a giveaway for the next week or so - people who post photos of whatever they've made from my recipes are entered in a draw for my 2...

Hrm, weird - we've never had that happen! Not sure why the pulp would rise instead of sink - what brand did you use? Maybe it's a different texture or something? We've only ever used the Swad Kesar stuff.

We'll be bottling our banana wine this week. We had to add more sugar than called for, but damn.. what a wine. TONS of banana flavor!

Wow! The progression on this wine is unbelievable! Going from the dishwater look to clarification wasn't gradual at all. It went from dishwater to clear with a thin layer of sediment in the course of less than a week!

Yep!

We've recently put on 2 5 gallon batches of this, as the first batch went WAY too quickly. One batch was per the recipe, the other was using peel and juice of 4 lbs "Tropicana" oranges. Can't wait! Next challenge is to come up with a faux lingonberry wine. Our actually lingonberry wine is the...

Hey, stranger!

Wow, yeah, I have no idea what to say. We just did 5x everything but yeast, and it worked out perfectly. The only thing I can think is that your mango pulp is a different brand - maybe there's something there? More/less sugar, more acid, I don't know? Maybe I'll try a batch with a different...

Does the laundry room count? When we looked at / bought this house a couple months ago, plotting out where the brewing would happen was a fairly high priority. We have quite a few carboys going, so we sort of planned around it: "Hey, here's a water hookup and utility sink! We should put the...