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Me and the soon to be Mrs will be heading up Thursday

Yoops, you'll be so proud. I brewed it up last night, and I want you to know that there will be at least one batch of your beer consumed at Deer Camp in Michigan this year! Not sure if anyone else will be taking it with them, but I can gar-un-t at least one keg of Yoop's Dead Guy (Dead Buck)...

Did we ever decide if that Old Honey was actually cooked or I just had all kinds of burnt honey flavors still in my mouth?

Actual OG was more like 1.120, but I figured with the 35odd pounds of grain I was mashing my effeciency wasn't going to be so great. I was right.

Here's my recipe. When you're ready to taste some just let me know. I know that you drive past my house every day on your way home from work, and I'd love to hang out for a bit. I'd really like to try and make it up, get ahold of me with the logistics. You know what all my gear looks like and...

It is bright a fruity, a bit on the tart (acidic) side but I figure that this will age out well and can be adjusted by sweetening slightly if needed....nowhere near anything I would call "clearing" yet though...

So here's what ended up happening with this whole project... I ended up with a ton of mulberries, and I threw all of them in my 20G brewpot. I added maybe 2 Gallons of water and about 8 pounds of sugar. I got it all up to a boil and let it get good and boiled out. Then I poured all of it...

So it's been about a month since the hydrometer stopped moving in secondary. I was late adding the golden raisins, so it kind of slowly started bubbling up again when I added them (which I took as a good sign) I ended up boiling the WELL RINSED golden raisins then straining and putting in the...

I would certainly be interested in participating!

damn you people and getting me wanting to start yet another hobby....

If you've been surrounded by desert and heat for a while, I would run for northern Michigan as fast as you could. Nothing like being surrounded by tons and tons of trees and hills and rivers and lakes. And tons of good beer, and wine tastings, and nice restaurants, and great people. I've been up...

5 Thumbs...thats one heck of a system you have there! Very nice work!

Hmm....forgot to add the raisins. As I'm sure there's still plenty of yeasties working in there, I'm assuming it's not too late...But I'm wondering if I should do a straight recipe conversion, which would mean 5# of raisins. That's quite a bit...

This is a great idea. I have plans to make meads for both the wedding day (as table favors in 187mL bottles) and as my bride present. One would obviously be meant to be drank much sooner than the other. I don't think that you'll have any problem with the aging, I've drank several 20 year meads...

Hmmm....I'm wondering if there's something I need to go to WalMart for...

Transfered off the petals. Gravity at 1.060. If anyone else is crazy enough to do a 5G batch, do yourself a favor. Ferment it in a bucket, and go buy one of those big nylon bags that fill the bucket. When you pour your cooled must into the bucket to ferment, just pour it right into the bag. Then...

I was just explaining to SWMBO (who's young enough to have missed most of Ernies broadcast years) about who he was, and I said, "he was the voice that all of the old men sitting in the garage listening to the ballgame heard, and later he was the voice that all of the old men sittining in the...

Those look sufficently overbuilt...which means they fit right in here!

Hmmm...I think this would have been a good application for the bucket sized nylon bags that they have at the brewshop. I have a smaller paint strainer bag but no funnel. Maybe I'll pour it through the bag into another vessel then siphon out of there into a carboy....I see an adventure in my future!

So I'm @ day 2 of fermentation, it's bubbling hard! I'm confused about this rack step at 3 days. This is going to be going through active fermentation when I rack it into a carboy, and this is a new thing for me. Why is it racked off the petals so fast? Also, I'm wondering if this is going to...