Recent content by woot

I live in NC for 16 years!

I head over to that oaktown place by Berkley - super helpful folks!! if you know of other bay area spots to checkout love to hear it - the one place that was in the city didn't survive the pandemic.

The weather here is perfect for brewing meads and ciders and I was tired of buying them all the time. I'm having a lot of fun exploring different recipes for Mead, Cider, Cyser, and Melomels. I've already brewed 6 batches of cider and 6 different meads and have a bunch of things in the works...

My experience is quite different, but I agree adding the sugar was probably unnecessary. My cider ferment takes exactly 14 days. That's it. It comes out crisp, clean - I do think the juice seems to have some impact. I've also done a mix with 1/3 of the juice being pineapple. I have yet to...