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I bottled and tasted some Orange Blossom Mead that I started last summer with Cotes des Blancs yeast, and has been bulk aging for about 6 months. It tastes really nice and floral, around 12% and fairly smooth, definitely the best mead I have made to date. Anyway I started two new meads using...

Plan: water 7.5# honey lemon and orange juiced in a 3 gallon carboy pectic enzyme yeast nutrient campden D-47 or cotes des blancs for yeast? ferment this normally, then rack before the primary finishes adding some quantity of thinly sliced pears laid out on a blank of cedar and...

Hello, just brewed this up this afternoon. Some elderberry plants grow where i work, so i picked enough flowers to fill a grocery bag, along with 3-4 large yellow roses that have a really nice sweet citrus scent. I used 1.5 pounds of white sugar and only .5 pounds of honey because i heard that...

Made 2 one gallon batches of cider about 3 weeks ago using Mott's apple juice, safale s-04, and a little nutrient. My intention was to make a refreshing and crisp, light bodied cider for summertime consumption. Fermented in 1 gallon glass carboys for 3 weeks. Yesterday i racked both of them...

Hello, first post, been lurking around for a couple months. Brewed up 3 gallons of Dandelion Mead 3 weeks ago using the following recipe: 1 pound Dandelion Petals 3 gal water 4 pounds honey 3.5 pounds white sugar 4 lemons 3 oranges 2 bags of green tea 1 bag of chamomile tea White...