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Do you mean you used it to back-sweeten a batch of hard cider? How much cider syrup did use in how many gal of finished cider? Trying to decide if it’s worth reducing a gal of fresh cider or if I should just use it as is.

Have a huge kettle for sure! Has anyone made a bochet cyser? I think I saw an example or two in this thread but not much on results. Preparing to do a bochet-cyser this weekend using 12 lbs of honey and then cider to meet the desired volume. However only 6-7 lbs of the honey will be...

I just picked up 5 gal of fresh-pressed cider from a local orchard. With the honey making up a gal in volume, 4 gal of the cider go to the main volume of the mead, while 1 gal of cider is singled out and reduced down, then added to the must. This is solely for flavor purposes. I can’t find...

Brewing up a cyser this weekend and wanted to go in a caramel apple pie direction. Let me know what you think. Found a recipe or two on here for caramel apple mead but they just add pounds of actual caramel to the must. Instead I want to try to get the caramel flavor from caramelizing a...

Just made a buckwheat bochet with some EC1118 a week ago, have some really high hopes for it. Also really wanna do a straight buckwheat honey mead without all the cooking of the honey. Let us know how this turns out! Check out these threads. Best use for buckwheat honey...

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Your OG should’ve landed somewhere around 1.100, so how low do you think the 71-B will take it? Do you plan on backsweeting, and if so, how?

Also, a tip for anyone concerned with the bees. If you’re lucky enough to have changing seasons, do this in the fall or winter if you’re gonna be outside. The bees were minimal for me but I still had a great idea to defend myself, and more importantly the honey. I took one of those round...

Thanks for the advise Shine! I’ll plan on adding the acid blend. Last night I couldn’t get mead off the brain and impulsively bought and brewed a black currant melomel using clover honey. Used a vintners Harvest fruit base which I just threw it to the wind and added the acid blend. The black...

Is there any way for the container to left off built up gas? It looks like the cap might be screwed on. Careful opening that sucker, it might explode in your hands. If you haven’t gotten an airlock, do so, and find a way to put it through (plus seal) the cap so there is a way for CO2 built up by...

Trying to formulate a recipe for a mead using a 96oz can of Vintners Harvest apricot fruit wine base (mix of fruit chunks and juice). Brewing it this weekend. Will be using 5lbs mesquite honey (Trader Joe’s), 6lbs Zambian wildflower honey (from Africa, supplied by Dutch Gold), the can of...

Brew day went very well. No hiccups, truly a lot easier than I though. Not a single bit of scorch on my kettle. Best thing I did was having all the necessary water, equipment, etc all at my finger tips when I needed it. You can’t walk away from it for a second. Helps to have your beer in...

Found this thread and couldn’t get the idea out of my head. I have 6lbs of buckwheat honey (Dutch Gold) and was baffled what to do with it. Has anyone tried this honey for a bochet? I only found one other example on a thread but no results. Everyone seems to give a bad rep to buckwheat...

Orange zest (dried or fresh) could be tasty. Maybe along with some cinnoman. Basically anything you find in the BOMM thread would be good for spicing.

Deep fried beef chimichangas. Been trying something new with my “taco beef” mixture. Making the sauce from all veggies, spices and beer, blending it, then finishing the cooked beef in that. Just a blend of chopped squash/zucchini, mushrooms, half an onion, maybe shredded carrots, your choice...

I’m OCD like that. Working in an actual brewery changes ones perspective on how “clean” something needs to be. Dead animal in plastic. Sorry, not using it anymore. No professional brewer would. It doesn’t matter the piece of equipment. It’s made of plastic - its porous and harbors bacteria no...

Definitely meant for the funeral pyre. Invest in the new cooler. Think of how long the mouse was in there trapped and scratching at the plastic siding. No doubt you’ll have bacterial problems from the scratches. It’d be like trying to wash off a used paper napkin so you can use it again. It’s...

Just got back from a 9 day brewery/hiking tour of Asheville, NC. Went to 17 different breweries (and 1 cider maker) and wanted to see what else there was in the brewery scene in WNC. Give your opinions of breweries you’ve visited in Asheville / WNC. What are some things you liked, beers you...

That blue cheese looks amazing! Cheese making looks so interesting. Too bad I only have enough room to support the brewing addiction... if I started cheese making, my fiancé would probably have to get rid of me.

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