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Anyone who does not think you can grow hops in scotland. About to brew these fresh picked from my garden goldings hops into this. It's the plants 2nd year and i already have 300g of dried and vac packed hops in my freezer from it and i still have about this again up pick. Grain bill: 4kg...

Hi, this September i pressed 160 liters off cider in 2 batches. The first batch was mixed with 10% pears and "cider yeast" with a malolactic culture. the 2nd batch was 100% apples and used wine yeast. The dregs of both batches got added to a bucket. It was fremented out to dry when the 2nd...

I know that commercial brewers often brew a strong beer then dilute it before bottling. I find that with my brew in my bag method the size of the brew is limited by my 32l pot for the boil. I seam to get less, but sweeter, wart than i calculate every time. Then taking into account trub and yeast...

I have just got a new fridge, which means my old one is freed up to try making lager. Up till now i brew in the bag ale and stout along with mead for the last 10 years. I'm trying to keep it cheap and just pick up an STC-1000 for £8 and wire it up. My question is i have a brew belt i have used...

Any one had much luck with dumping honey and water on top of the dregs of a batch of beer? I have recently got back into beer after brewing exclusively mead and have decided to dump 8 kg of honey dissolved in 23l of water into the yeast and hops mess at the bottom of the bucket. I might add...

Brewed two gallons of mead just after I left my wife. Because I had up sticks and left I didn't have every thing. But I did have 1.3 kg of Tanzanian leatherwood honey and 1.3kg of dark Greek honey. So I chucked each into a 5l demi John with a sachet of champaign yeast between them. Then both had...

How does every one De gas? Its Some thing I never bothered with to begin with but as time has gone on I get frustrated with the little bubbles on the surface when I pour my still aged mead. I have seen aging mead work wonders with mead but even with a year and a half in secondary I have co2...

I went to a local winery 2 weeks ago and saw what sort of stuff they do to make their wine. They do country style wines and being in the Scottish soft fruit growing lands mostly Strawberry and Elderberry wine. Anyway saw their bottling plant and what they use for sealing their screw tops was an...

Not beenon herefor awhile. After last year's sucsess with this one here it is again. This time my Elderberry trees gave me 6kg within reach without ladders and dam it took ages to pick them off the stems. A good 3 hours. Left them over night soaking in a Campden solution. Been lazy and chucked...

Now I'm wanting to back sweeten my mead but I'm trying to work out the least wasteful and messy way to get the honey in there and dissolved? Pouring it in with a funnel? Heating it and pouring it in? Dissolving it in hot or cold water? Not that I want to dilute it. Or what I'm thinking cutting...

I made a batch of cider a few years ago, up where I used to live there was an abandoned orchard of only about 30 trees I used to play inn as a kid. all the apples just rot so I went out scrumping with my little Sister and cousin. We got allot if apples and could have got so many more if they...

Any one ever done a mead using ginger beer plant instead of yeast? I'm trying to track one down and see if it will live off honey.

Ok so I just got my first 5 gallon, 23l carboy so this is getting serious. And as my sweet berry meads have been the best so far I was thinking of trying another one. Time of year means I'll be using frozen berries and in the supper markets they are cheaper if you buy them mixed than individual...

Any one ever used this stuff? http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Ritchies_500ml_Red_concentrate.html#.UM2n5KMRcyE I stuck a 250ml bottle in to a mead to see what happened, it started of a deep dark red and now a week in to fermentation its starting to pink up a little, I know allot...

I am An air conditioning engineer. This means I have lots of use full things kicking about in my van. I have a vacuum pump for evacuating refrigeration pipe work, its a powerfull thing which is used to suck out moisture so can evaporate water at cold temperatures so i'm guessing can evaporate...

About to start a 5l batch of vanilla mead. Gonna put it in primary, aim for 12% dry. for this is one pod enough, should I take the seeds out, my wife has stolen the seeds out a few I could use just the pod, and should I cook it? Was not going to cook the honey just add it to warm water to dissolve?

I'm new to mead, this is just my second batch. used to do beer but its not worth the saving any more so trying to fill all my old beer bottles with mead and hide them Under my floor boards to age. My first batch was too successful and less than half the bottles made it under the floor, but my...