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I'm actually a bit annoyed by a former coworker who did too much work. He recently basically burned out and took a position with a new company. So I got to take over all his work. And since he was doing a stupid amount of stuff for the client, they now expect it for all the jobs going...

January. I used to work nights, so I'd wake up in the dark and go to bed in the dark. Normally you'd think December would be worse, but that at least has Holidays to make me happy.

Hey Everyone! So a while back, I posted that I tried mixing the powdered yeast balls with some cooked sweet potatoes. Thought I should report back. Basically- DO NOT DO IT! Cooked the sweet potatoes, peeled them, mashed them, and then stuffed the mash into a jar with powdered yeast ball...

2713+5=2718 Definitely looking forward to this one.

So my book club meeting this week for some reason decided to pick the food theme of Moroccan. I've never actually had Moroccan food, but after looking around online, I came up with an idea. I've already done a few batches of the rice wine on this forum, and since my book club is incredibly...

So figured I should report back. I used half sushi rice and half "wild purple sweet rice." The purple rice gave it this really nice color, but unfortunately the rice itself didn't really break down. Had quite a bit of pulp leftover to strain at the end. Pretty good stuff with just a hint of...

I have actually tasted an onion mead at a homebrewer's night once. It was... really odd. Didn't much care for it. But the quiche that had the mead baked into it was really good. Seems a lot of work for a good quiche though.

Yeah okay, I'm in too. I have a batch of experimental Lactomel going, so I thought I might as well get some rice wine going as well. So for me, I went with half high quality sushi rice and half "wild sweet purple rice." It has some nice color to it if nothing else. I also found Happy Panda...

Well, went ahead and racked off the fruit and onto 2 cinnamon sticks. I'm hoping that's just enough to add just a hint to it on top of what's there. Still some very definite fruitiness as this point, but I'll have to wait to see how it settles down. The color though... wow. See the "show us...

That actually makes sense. Well, hopefully the amount will help at least some. Otherwise, I may just rack onto some more just to see what happens.

So this is everything I've got right now that isn't out in the deep storage. In order: Kiwi (with Strawberry!) Wine that's currently bulk aging and settling down. B+B+B Mead- Blueberry, Blackberry and Banana. That's one of the topping bottles as I just transferred it off the fruit. If...

OK, so I've gotten into meads and had a few successes so far. Doing a blueberry mead and thought I might get some suggestions from you guys. I was originally going to do a straight blueberry wine, but everything I've read said they can be a bit weak by itself. So at the last minute instead...

Oh god. That was a mess. So today was brew day and I decided to experiment with the chia seeds. Suffice to say, not all that pretty. Started with making a tea on my stove top to see how they react. Got out my largest kitchen pot, put it on the stove, dumped a handful of chia seeds in and...

I actually have about 5.5 lbs of chia seed sitting around. Dry Dock Brewing here in Denver has a poppy stout on tap right now, so I was thinking of using my chia in a beer. Trying to aim for something darker in style and use 3-4 lbs cracked chia in addition to my steeping grains (I've been...

Yeah, if I do this one again, I'll be doing a few things differently. I was a bit time crunched on this the first time. First of all... BIG starter for the yeast. Probably mash at around 152 or so. Let it sit in primary for a minimum of 3 weeks. May even rack to secondary, but that'll...

Yeah, okay... I have a bit of a sweet tooth. If this ends up even slightly drinkable, I'll probably end up calling it my Sweet Dreams Stout, or something silly like that. Anyway, like I said, figured I might as well shoot for the sky. The whole thought process was to do as complicated a thing...

And... it suddenly clicked. I took the FG reading after adding the priming sugar. Duh.

Hey all! Hopefully I'll be posting here pretty often. Read through quite a few threads, and a lot of what I already saw helped. So thanks. Anyway, on to the story. Got a kit for Christmas and decided to jump in the deep end off the start and try my first batch as an all-grain. Figure if...