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Hey guys! I've read (mostly in the stickies, here) that degassing is critical to a speedy fermentation with mead. I've tried a couple different things, with varying results, and want to solicit some opinions on stirring/degassing. First - I made me as stir plate, one of those cheap easy...

Hey guys, I've got a bunch of mead and for various reasons, want to bottle it before it ferments dry to make sparkling mead (instead of adding sugar after it has dried up). I've done some high power beers before which I eventually got to carbonate to (mostly) appropriate levels, although never...

Hey guys, thought you may be interested in a thing. I've been reading art of fermentation by Sandor Katz, which is like the top five books I've ever read. Anyway, there's a recipe for corned beef, something like a brisket in a brine of 10% salt and 5% sugar for two weeks. I cooked it for st...

hey guys! I'm one of those guys who started off homebrewing by making mead, then moved on to various fruit/vegetable/koolaid wines that they call country wine. I just stumbled on a recipe I'm interested in because it sounds like a real nice session beer, and I think a session beer would be...

Hey guys, thought this might interest some of you. I just racked a gallon of mead today, started it up back in January as an experiment. I built myself a stir plate and have had this mead on it for basically the entire time; I figured the stir plate was easier than degassing with a pump (I...

Hey guys! I've got a problem someone here may have some idea about. I may be premature, but I'm thinking about it right now, so I'll ask while I'm thinking about it. I made up a big batch (about 40 gallons) of carrot wine in a barrel, because it's cheap and I made a pretty tasty 5 gallon...

Hey guys! I made some barleywine today. I also made some poor decisions regarding the barleywine. Here's how it went: The mash went very well, the first run was around 1.090 and it didn't drop off very fast. I think I got 4-5 runs (maybe 2-3 gallon each) before I decided to stop watering...

Hey guys! I'm pretty new to beer, but been making fruit/vegetable wine for a while. I made my first batch a couple months ago, a barleywine with homemade base malt. It fermented pretty well, although I was worried in the beginning because I had some heavy vegetable smells, which I decided...

Hey guys, I just brewed my first beer last weekend. It was an all grain batch made with pale malt I made myself. here's the recipe (roughly): http://hopville.com/recipe/1665289 It was supposed to be a barleywine and I think it came out that way, 1.090 gravity. That's a bit low for what I...