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I only go the sparkling route myself, this mead included :)

I just ended up using powdered cloves

Easy to understand the confusion... I use the terms strike, sparge, etc... due to my Brew Pal program. But, you could add some barley grains to convert any sugars from the pumpkin maybe, and add rolled oats while you're converting anyway? I didn't because I was using ingredients I had laying...

The result is quite good. Not quite Hoegaarden though. The wit yeast flavor in my clone is much more pronounced. The clone needs more foamy head too. All in all, I would make this again. The color is spot on!! Hoegaarden (L) Clone (R)

The result is quite good. Not quite Hoegaarden though. The wit yeast flavor in my clone is much more pronounced. The clone needs more foamy head too. All in all, I would make this again. The color is spot on!! Hoegaarden (L) Clone (R)

I took a gravity sample last night, it was 1.030 and fermentation appears to have halted. The sample tasted amazing! Not as sweet as I expected. It was smooth with an overt coffee flavor, from the 1# of English chocolate malt. I think I nailed it. I am excited to see what further aging and...

Well, that is most unfortunate!! I was about to keg some root beer extract that I picked up...

Also, I don't plan on taking a gravity reading until around Jan 26 or so, or until the bubbling stops. A few days ago I transferred this into two 5-gallon carboys and topped each off with one gallon of sterilized water. My Brew Pal supported this dilution. See, I wasn't able to determine the...

Yep, it's still bubbling away. And yes, I underpitched with only 2 yeast packets. Really, in hindsight, I could have planned this better as two 5-gallon batches with the same quantity of fermentables. The headspace was nominal. I had a blowoff tube going really hard and had to hold the lid...

So here is a case study of sorts... I made a really strong 8 gallon recipe and primaried it into my 7.9 gallon plastic fermentor bucket. So, I decided to correct what really is an overstrength after 7 days by splitting this volume into 2 sanitized glass 5 gallon carboys and then added 1 gallon...

Yes, I apologize for not beimg more clear! I have been able to really pull banana flavor with a 5 lbs of banana and 1 oz rum made into a purée in the secondary.

1,605 + 5 Hoegaarden clone = 1,610 1,610 + 5 La Petite Orange = 1,615 1,615 + 10 Double DBA Imperial Special Bitter = 1,625 ------- 1,625

This is good information :ban: I was scrubbing the Hoegaarden clone threads because I have been trying to figure out if the recipe I used had any grains with enzymes... I'm a little slow and know only that barley, 2 row, and 6 row have enzymes. I stumbled upon this again having not retained...

So... Was a snuff spoon quantity of cumin about right here... That's about how much I used... For reference:

That's a nice looking cider!

Exactly, yes, appears high. However, it's because of my Brew Pal program; I had to manually input the yeast strain and just didn't input the alcohol tolerance properly. The yeast strain will deliver a high alcohol content, my estimation is roughly 13%. I encourage you to validate this. I...

I would urge caution using any more than 6 lbs.

You've doomed us all!!

The guy in the video mentioned that the "angels' share" in dry area is mitigated through the use of wax. So yes, in theory the purpose is to limit breathing of oxygen and to limit evaporation.

I really didn't mean it like that, I buy whisky for my wife who loves it. I just struggle a bit.