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So funny,I was about to post the same post. I started with Joy of Homebrewing about 4 months ago. I learned a lot from it, it was an easy and fascinating read, but now with about 8 batches under my belt from the book I feel like I'm ready to move on. I'm too lazy to really get into the...

My bee club president just gave me a taste of the best mead I've ever tasted in my life. When I asked him how he made it, he pretty much said that he dumped in one gallon of raw honey with 4 gallons of spring water, mixed it, and left it alone for a very long time. He says sometimes he doesn't...

I have made two batches of honey beer and am on my third. It's based on the Linda's Lovely Light recipe (which includes ginger) in the Papazian book. Admittedly it calls for a lot of honey (2.5 pounds) but the result is that you can actually taste it quite a bit when it's a young beer...

That's really interesting, and thank you both for responding. I will let you know what happens. Looks like my fermentation is over for the one I have in the can, so I'll be bottling that Sunday, most likely.

Howdy folks, I brewed a Ginger Honey Apricot beer (my first "experiment" after my first brew the plain old Ginger Honey was a big hit) and bottled it on Sunday, using a variety of bottles. All are in the same closet and in equal sunlight (slim to none). Twelve of the bottles are Sierra...

We have a big, happy lavender bush in our yard. I'd like to try this recipe when it blooms. This goes on my list :). I'm too "young" in homebrew years to really start mucking about with experiments yet, but I'm wondering what happens if I use Papazian's "Linda's lovely light" and sub in an as...

Hello, My husband and I have only been home brewing since last fall when we started on "Project Christmas Homebrew." We have 7 completed brews under our belt and are working on 8 and 9 right now. Admittedly this was his baby...he's the beer lover in the family...until I started reading his...