Recent content by PrincessOfWails

hello, A couple of years ago I ran into a recipe for a Mirepoix (onion, celery, and carrot) cooking wine. My garden is very abundent in these areas this year and I wanted to give it a try. But of coarse I can't find the recipe again, I think it may have been the book "Wild Fermentation" but I...

I just pressed my cider and my potential alcohol is only 5.2%, my book says you need %5.7 to be stable. I want to use honey but I can't find a calculation that will tell me how many lbs of honey I will need to raise 5 gallons of cider from %5.2 to %5.7. Anyone know???

Hello, I am pressing apples for cider and thought that I would like to make some apple cider vinegar as well. I do not have a mother. Anyone know how to do this or could give me pointers? i thought about maybe adding Bragg's apple cider vinegar, it says it has the mother in it. Another...

Wow this is such great information! I am so glad I posted about this, I hadn't thought of many of the things that you have brought up. I plan on brewing on Tuesday and I think I have come up with a plan! I want to use 7 lbs of honey and 5 lbs of light malt. I think I am going to go with the...

I don't have a SCOBY, my plan was to use the glob from a GT brew, but I never thought about them being pulled now. So what is your suggestion of where to go from here???

Hello, I want to start brewing my own Kombutcha but I haven't found reliable how to instructions. Could someone either tell me how to do it or direct me to where I can find good instructions. I tried to brew one in the past but it didn't work. I am not that into refined sugar so I tried to use...

Hello! I live in a neighborhood that was once an apple orchard so each house has at least one apple tree in the yard. I happen to have 4 very productive trees. My neighbors hate the mess they leave and have offered their apples to me as long as I pick them and take them away. I have 2...

Thank you for the suggestions! I do want it to tip closer to the mead side of things, just a nice round mead, easier to drink than some meads, more refreshing. I am thinking I would like it to be lightly sparkling. I guess I would like to use a wine yeast, but dryer than sweet. Does a 4 lbs...

Hello, I have 10 lbs of blueberries and I want to ferment them into some delicious. I found a mead recipe that I like but I want to make some substitutions for pale malt extract to round out the mead. I have limited experience with mead so I was wondering if you guys could give me some...