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Ettels4: I used the Selection International Australian Traminer-Riesling and orange blossom honey. I made one of the batches on 9-30-10, and it was cleared and very good at Christmas. Got lots of compliments at that time, but I still put most of it aside to bulk age in kegs. Still very tasty.

I made two 6 gal. batches of Traminer-Riesling pyment in 2010, using D47. Each time split the pyment into two 3 gal batches and added Northstar (pie) cherries to one half, in secondary. I force carbonated some of the cherry, and the carbonation really brings out the cherry and honey flavors...

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I have a Blichmann that I got at Midwest when I started kegging. But when it breaks I'm going to go the homemade route. I'll try the bottle wand trick first. Yum, sparkling lemonade mead sounds good for summer. Good luck!

Yeah, I think you have the right idea. I started carbonating a 5 gal keg of cyser a few weeks before Thanksgiving 2011 (brewed in fall 2010), served it up over the holidays, and then used my beer gun to bottle the rest in 12 and 22 oz beer bottles using oxygen absorbing caps. No downside that...

Another update: I just bottled this melomel, and it's wonderful! Not too sweet, not too tart. The black currant fragrance and flavor is very strong. The color is black. It's been sitting in a keg in my garage all this time, and there's not even a hint of oxidation. The fruit seems very...

22 3 gal. Pear Melomel 23 3 gal. Quince Melomel 24 5 gal. Traquair Strong Scotch Ale 25 5 gal. Director's Bitter 26 5 gal. Guinness X Stout 27 3 gal. Tulip Poplar Trad. Mead 28 4 gal. Quince Melomel 29 5 gal. Dunkelweizen 30 5 gal. Imperial IPA...

I break down the keg completely & clean everything. I clean the tube and beer line with a Camelback flexible tube brush & a bit of StarSan. After putting the keg back together, I add diluted StarSan & shake, add a bit of CO2, and then run StarSan through the tube & line. The Camelback tube...

Well, that was just bizarre. "Brewing valor", stolen recipes, etc. Get a grip, hedonist91. And, FYI, most cheesecakes do use vanilla extract rather than vanilla beans. But if you want to pay for, soak, and scrape out vanilla beans, then go for it. I just did two holiday beers with vanilla...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol Generally regarded as safe. Haven't ever used these flavor drops, so couldn't really attest to their quality. Graham crackers also contain artificial flavors, partially hydrogenated soybean oil -- yum yum. And what are most breakfast cereals...

The Capella drops are available on Amazon.

Steep it in the bag with your other specialty grains. 4-6 oz sounds good to me, but How To says 8 oz Carapils is common for 5 gal batch, since it doesn't yield much from steeping. Ah well.

torrified wheat or flaked barley should help head retention & body

I believe traditional meads are the most problematic. The beer ingredients should help. If you can, read the braggot section in Schramm's Compleat Meadmaker. Sounded a lot like brewing a strong Honey Porter, to me, except that he uses a wine yeast. (OT, try adding a couple of pounds of honey...

You started with a Midwest kit. Look at their Barleywine kit. It starts with a liquid yeast, (I used Wyeast 1056 American Ale when I made it), and then adds rehydrated dry champagne yeast to the secondary to help bring the FG down. So you could let the yeast you already have do most of the...

I pour mine into a flask, jug, or canning jar and put it in the refrigerator or keg freezer. Someplace very cold, but not freezing. Decant off the lees a few times and continue cold crashing until it's clear. I use these samples for trying future brewing ideas -- testing flavor combinations...

Sounds like a braggot -- a beer mead hybrid. I made a dry mead on Thurs with 12.5 lbs honey for 5 gallons, and the OG was 1.096, so you're in the right ballpark. I haven't tried a braggot yet, but for Honey Porter, the honey completely ferments out, giving a rather dry beer, assuming you have...

1. 5 gal. Honey Porter 2. 5 gal. Irish Stout 3. 5 gal. ESB 4. 5 gal. Bourbon Barrel Old Ale 5. 5 gal. Bigfoot's Barley Wine 6. 10 gal. Strong Ale x 2 7. 5 gal. Chocolate Oatmeal Stout 8. 5 gal. Power Pack Honey Porter 9. 3 gal. Tupelo...

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention another change: the raspberry blossom honey has a bit of a white chocolate taste. So I tried some chocolate extract in one of my hydrometer samples -- it's great! Really accents the semi-sweet berry taste. I'm planning to add some chocolate extract too, when the...