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I might do one straight chocolate and one with mint just to see. These are going to be aging quite a while so I don't think that will matter too much. What did you do with your mint and what mint did you use?

Hrm. I wonder if anyone out there has actually tried mint in a mead before. I'd be interested in knowing if they liked it. It was just a crazy suggestion. Cinnamon might be a good addition. I don't really see the point of vanilla and chocolate in a drink though.

-gets a defib unit out- Is the group leap year batch a go? It'd be an awesome experiment to see the different takes on a single batch and a fun experience for people to collaborate. I threw this together as a suggestion/help for collaboration...

I do have a bottling bucket luckily. I got the True Brew kit with the 5 gallon carboy. Thanks for the response.

Yeah...I didn't mean to leave such little room, but at least it didn't all go on my floor. That would've been a pain to get out of the carpet. And to Skyforger: I don't know. There could've been a crazy suggestion. And a question about racking to a secondary, should I do that in two weeks or...

Hey all, On Friday (1/20) I started a True Brew Porter kit. I waited until I saw signs of fermentation about 3 hours later, and threw in yeast nutrient and yeast energizer. As soon as the mixture hit the beer, it instantly kicked the ferment to go into hyperdrive and it almost foamed over...

Sorry to double post, but there's good news. In preparation to pitch one more packet of yeast to attempt to save the batch, I siphoned off a couple ounces of liquid from the mead. Lo and behold either the air it got while I was siphoning or because of the little bit of headroom I added, the...

By the way, Sams Club has 5 lbs of Sue Bee Clover Honey for about $12.

So the Chocolate Bochet is the mead of choice for the leap year mead? My first meads are just fermenting (well..at least one of them is, I have another thread about that though). :P The thought of a leap year mead is interesting. I suppose I'm in if I can get the materials. Is there any...

I wasn't aware that Wyeast was all liquid yeast. Hmm. I assume I'll go with the Lalvin EC-1118 and do a little more research on the flavored meads. Plan now is to go: 3.5-4 lbs of honey (whatever I have left) unboiled/heated 1 cup of water with goferm and my yeast Original spices...

I have two packets of D-47 on the way. I wasn't going to toss out the old one, just start a new batch and see how it fares compared to the original. I'm not sure what Yeast to get though. I've been reading that guide and I'm leaning toward the Wyeast brand, but I'm not sure which one of the...

Well knowing all of that kind of makes me want to buy some GoFerm and some wyeast and start another batch of the apple pie one. I also need to buy some pH test strips. Small Edit: I just checked my meads and beer. The sweet mead is going strong still, my beer (thank god I went with the...

Hello all, I decided to get into homebrewing over Christmas and I finally got my equipment in. Right now I have a 5g batch of Porter, a 1g Batch of sweet mead and I decided to try to be adventurous and try to make a 1 gallon batch of Apple Pie spiced mead. The ingredients I used for the Apple...