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I use 2 liter bottles stuffed into my old garage fridge. Cooling them dramatically hastens the clearing. I wait till they drop bright then bottle.

Brew up some Lipton Ice Tea, make some pink lemonade from frozen concentrate and mix both of those equally to make 5 gallons, then carbonate it. Its better than Arnold Palmers "Half & Half", and is great for the hot summers

Make a 4-gallon hydromel. Thats what I've been doing recently and my friends love em. Just use your favorite beer yeast, and make sure you add the correct amount of nutrients.

Yup 2 packets, 2 cups sugar, 5 gallons water, force carbonate = soda in seconds. I used to do the crystal light, and brewed tea/honey was great too!

2 large packets(the 10 quart per packet kind) any flavor of koolaid, Sugar to taste, bam! instant soda! Stop having a boring soda, stop having a boring life! Add some vanilla flavor extract to make it "creme" and bam! Belini, Martini, String Bikini!

I'm looking into creating a wine with the least amount of flavor profile generated from the yeast. What is a very clean wine yeast? I would assume it would be a white wine. I'm not looking for fresh, fruity, woody, or any other aromas. I just need it to produce the alcohol and a very small...

Just aquired 5lbs of now dried morel mushrooms! I also found this online which I'm going to study and cherry-pick : Mushroom wine - Patent 7244456 I'll post pics soon

Does anyone know how to apply foils onto wine bottles?

Is there a way to get head retention on a hydromel?

I have a friend who wants me to make a mead with rasperries, blackberries, and strawberries. A very berry mead if you will. I have three options of honey : Blackberry Clover Orange Blossom I know I need pectic enzymes, and that I wish to make it between dry-medium, to sweet-medium... but I...

The recipe is below, and the only way it was really a clone of budweiser, is the srms and the og... but my question is : Can I use bee pollen to create head on my carbonated hydromels? Since pollen is mostly protien. It is the malt protien that gives beer its head right? And one thing I did...

I ment more complex, not complex in general... like Maltose is a disaccharide which is more complex than Fructose,Dextrose as a monosaccharide To be more direct, here is a list of the common sugars found in honey : Fructose (levulorotatory glucose) 38.2% Dextrose (Dextrorotatory glucose) 31.3%...

its OG was 1.052, and its not a braggot since I used no malt. It would be considered a methaglin hydromel, since its spiced with hops and its alcohol content is too low to be considered a wine. FG is 1.010 (target was 1.012, but it just wouldn't stop fermenting)

Honey has lots of different sugars based on what the bees had available when producing their wonderful syrup. Reading through the Complete Mead Makers guide I found he had a chart that would outline the percentage of each type of saccharides based on the flowers and vegetation available to the...

I brewed a clone of a budweiser, but used pure blueberry honey for all the adjuncts and malt profiling. This might seem like an oxymoron (like using crown royal to make blackvelvet), but I'm trying to make my point that good ingredients can fit into commercial recipes. Anywho, Its done, its...

Funny you bring this up. I was talking to my hippy friend who taught me how to hunt for morels and he told me about the pearl jam. For the most part, local honey here is very yellow, so his pearl jam turned out mostly greenish. But we got into a conversation about the hydroscopic aspect of...

I use a rubber band and a coffee filter for primary, and a 1 piece airlock for secondary, and never once have I had an infection or faulty start on fermentation

yes I did... kinda. I omitted out the yarrow (it tasted like gasoline when I brewed it in a tea). I also added elderberries... I think... look below. Instead I added a special type of lavendar, which was a great success. My friends and I drank 5 gallons in just short of a month. I have since...

Aye. Here is my final decision : I'm going to do one batch. I am not a fan of sulfiting so I will pasteurize the broth, add a very light honey and ferment it dry in a 1 gallon batch targeting 12% abv. Once I do bottle I will be adding the tiny morels to the bottle, and yes into clear bottles...

Racking is using a racking cane to transfer the liquid from one container to the next. Splash racking is where you place the end of the incoming hose line perpendicular to the bottom of the container. This creates a slashing that introduces oxygen into the liquid. Yeast grab hold of the oxygen...