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  1. Bombo80

    Mesquite Mead with Samurai Chai Mate & White Ayurvedic Chai Blend

    I have a mother load of loose leaf teas that I got from my mother and brother. Most of it is from Teavana, back when they actually had a brick and mortar building. 1.5 oz. Samurai Chai Mate & White Ayurvedic Chai Blend 1 gallon water heated to 175* steeped tea then strained solids out 3#...
  2. Bombo80

    Next version of JAOM

    I followed the base recipe for JAOM. The slight changes I made were ..... - peeled the oranges for just the skin, leaving the pith behind. - removed the pith from around the segments. - separate and squeeze orange segments. The rest of the recipe had 125 raisins, 19gr. Cinnamon sticks, 15gr...
  3. Bombo80

    JAOM, Blood Orange and a Coffee Mead

    This is my first time making JAOM. It is really hard to leave it alone !! But I followed the original recipe. The only thing I didn't do, was squeeze the orange. I was listening to Got Mead Podcasts, and that was one thing they said they would do the next time they made it. Oh well, It will just...
  4. Bombo80

    I finally got 4 meads going ....

    It has been a while since I have been on the forum, let alone make any mead. So I finally got four of them going. Following standard SNA protocol with Fermaid-O, Fermaid-K and DAP. I bought food grade, 3 gallon buckets for primary fermentation. I am planning of several fruit melomels when these...
  5. Bombo80

    Attempt at Viking Blod Mead

    So it has been a while since I have made any mead. I have been listening to many podcasts on the topic also. Here is what I have come up with. 4 Gallon batch 12# honey - O.B. or Star thistle for main honey 2# light neutral honey 1oz Warrior Hops - 30 min 1oz Cascade Hops - 15 min 1oz Hallertau...
  6. Bombo80

    Trójniak Mead

    My plans are to make a 3 gallon batch of this Polish Mead. I found a calculator to help with the step feeding. I am going to start with all the water, which is just under 2 gallons. I am going to start with 7 pounds of honey in this water, and get the fermentation started. This should get me to...
  7. Bombo80

    Craisin Cider

    I made this last year, and it turned out pretty good, but there was still room for improvement. So here we go ...... I took a 48 ounce bag of craisins and put them in a stock pot. I brought 1 gallon of water to a rolling boil, and dumped it over the craisins, and stirred to mix well. Covered...
  8. Bombo80

    Cider #3 - Cranberry Cider

    I took about one gallon (7# 4oz) out of the 5 gallon fermenter, and put it into a new, clean and sanitized gallon water jug, and put it in the freezer. This will be thawed and used as a concentrated apple/sugar source to backsweeten this cider once the fermentation has finished. So I started...
  9. Bombo80

    Cider #2 - Crabby Cider

    I took about one gallon (7# 4oz) out of the 5 gallon fermenter, and put it into a new, clean and sanitized gallon water jug, and put it in the freezer. This will be thawed and used as a concentrated apple/sugar source to backsweeten this cider once the fermentation has finished. So I started...
  10. Bombo80

    Cider #1 - for Calvados (Apple Brandy)

    It was the club cider buy/pickup day on Saturday. Batch 1 will be distilled into Apple Brandy. 5 gallons of fresh pressed cider @1.048, mixed with 1 gallon of Centennial Crabapple cider, I pressed from frozen crabapples, @1.072. This gave me a SG of 1.052. I am using a packet of the SafCider...
  11. Bombo80

    Super High Gravity Brew .... Again

    So I have decided to try and brew another super high gravity beer. Still in the planning stage but having some issues with the IBU's. More on that in a bit. The recipe ..... 20# 2-row malt 5# 6-row malt 2# Crystal 60*L 2# Munich malt 10*L 2# Smoked Malt 2# Maple Syrup - added during...
  12. Bombo80

    First try at a Bochet Cider

    A few years ago I cooked down a gallon of fresh pressed cider, into about 3 cups of really thick, black, sweet, appley goo. I had it in the fridge since then. Since we had our club cider buy, and delivery was the first Saturday of November, I decided to try something completely different. I...
  13. Bombo80

    Planning stage for a traditional mead

    I am looking for suggestions on yeast selection, OG, fermentation temp, etc ..... Keep in mind, I want this to be a Traditional Mead. I have 12 pounds of Basswood honey. Very light and delicate tasting. I want to do this different than my other meads. I would like to let it ferment dry...
  14. Bombo80

    Bulk pasteurizing mead ......

    So, I have thought about this for a while. I have done the pasteurizing of bottled cider. Mostly successful, but still scary. I even tried bulk pasteurizing cider, then kegged and force carbed. Turned out pretty good. What about fermenting your mead down to whatever FG level you want, then...
  15. Bombo80

    Pomegranate yield from whole fruit

    So I waited a whole year for the pomegranate harvest, and I finally came across them a week or so ago, at Sams club. Very nice and very large fruits. Pretty good price too. A four pack for $8, or $2 a piece. Costco has them in a 6 pack for $12.99. So I am going to make a pomegranate wine, but...
  16. Bombo80

    Strange readings .... oops !!

    I started about a 4 gallon batch of Raspberry wine. I had 16 pounds of berries thawing in a large plastic tote, and added about 2 gallons of boiling water with about 16 pounds of sugar dissolved in it, and mixed them well. I let them sit until everything was thawed and back to around room temp...
  17. Bombo80

    Finally using Beer Smith properly

    I have never really utilized all the functions of Beer Smith. I finally took inventory on all my brewing ingredients and put them into the program. When I put together the brews I want to do this weekend, I just hit the add to shopping cart list, and BAM, all the items I need were put in there...
  18. Bombo80

    Finally expanded my keg setup

    Here is my current setup, with my new CO2 manifold. Now I can have several kegs going at the same time. :mug:
  19. Bombo80

    Time for Mead and lots of Honey on hand

    First I need to use some Centennial Crabapples that are in the freezer from last fall. Now that I have over 125# of honey, It's time to make some mead/cyser/melomel. Cyser - 26# crabapples (half in primary, half in secondary) 15# honey Bring volume up to about 4 gallons in primary. Need...
  20. Bombo80

    Possibly bad pale malt ??

    So here is the background on this. I bought a 50 pound bag of Breiss pale malt. It has been in a plastic tote except for when I have measured out some grain to crush and make beer. The majority of the bag was used to make the base for my Utopia clone, which is still aging. My boil off amount...
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