Recent content by wheezy_shoe

Welcome! I, too, am an overseas brewer and recently joined. I live in China, where do you live?

Hey, I joined a few weeks ago, but I really haven't had anything to contribute until now. I've got two meads in secondary fermentation right now, and should hopefully be done this week (a mulberry mead and a dragonfruit mead - if you're interested, I can share pictures later. What I will say now...

哈哈哈！很高兴认识你！你的中文很棒！ I was worried about the homebrewing laws in China, but I asked around, and every Chinese person I talked to said that there's no problem, although it's typically done by older people and in rural/farming communities. They typically make things like fruit wines or 黄酒 (huangjiu...

I'm an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher in a middle school in a medium-sized city (about one or two million people) in Shaanxi province. My two passions in college were history and languages, but after I graduated, I was stuck in a job that used neither of those - I hated it. When I...

Hahaha, thanks. It's actually a bit of a bilingual pun. Of course, the "Bee" part is because of the honey, but "New Bee" is pronounced almost the exact same way as the Chinese term 牛B (niú bī), which basically means "cool" or "awesome". On top of that, it sounds like the English term "newbie"...

Hello everyone! I live in China, although I'm originally from Minnesota in the US. I've lived in China for about eight years, and I recently got into making mead. Before the pandemic, I would occasionally treat myself and my friends by buying a bottle of mead imported from Australia, but it was...