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I May look into a keg set up, I want one anyways and id have a year and a half to get it setup before the beer was ready to keg

I made some changes and removed some of the herbs, I think I want to leave the 1 oz of mugwort tho. my last batch I used the same quantity for 5 gallons so I'm already halving the amount per volume. as far as carbing I havnt even thought about that yet, I lightly carbed the first attempt, I...

i lowered the rosemary and yarrow as suggested...I'm thinking on the rest, seeing where I want to cut I'm still new to alot of the herbs, I used juniper and mugwort in my last batch and I'm trying to improve from there so id like to keep them both, but I could adjust quantities

any way, I'm planning on making 10 gallons. 5 gallons of beer and 5 gallons of mead for the mead part I have: 10 lbs honey 3 packs of raises .5 oz yarrow .5 oz bee pollen the peel of one orange for the beer half I have: 9 lbs German 2 row 4 lbs Vienna .5 lbs smoked malts 1...

hi, I'm about to make my second attempt at a gruit/braggot. my first one I got alot of help from people in here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=625743 and now I think I'm ready to try again because I really like this beer and id like to perfect the recipe...im hoping I can...

now that this beer has aged a few months I actually like it alot, it doesn't taste watered down at all anymore, but you also can not tell at all that the abv is over 10% I'm about to start working on the recipe and try to make it again with some improvements. but as the recipe stands now...

I'm okay with sour beers im just confused why it's sour... it does have a good taste to it

strangely the braggot taste "watered down" its 10% alcohol and slightly sour tasting...not a bad tasting brew but I definitely want to change it up before I try this recipe again. maybe less honey and more malts, or maybe more of the mugwort and juniper because they are non existent in the...

i tasted it before bottling, I was surprised how overpowering the "mead" taste was. had little no beer taste. I'm hoping as it ages it'll bring out more flavor. as it sits now tho it taste like a pretty decent mead. just a hint of dry but not to much, and it finished at 9.8 % abv i went ahead...

ill give it a taste tonight then and see if it's ready, iv always just taken my reading when I bottled but it definitely makes more since the way you suggested.. i may try to keep them separate next time, I like the idea..i sorta started this brew as an experiment and if learned alot in the...

bottling tonight!....im still nervous on how this will taste. when I switched to secondary I added some dates and some juniper berries, I boiled both in a pot with a little water till the water was gone then put them in a bag in the freezer till time to add. when I switched the beer smelled...

my braggot is still bubbling strong..plan on moving it to 2nd fermenter next Saturday (after 2 weeks has passed) my question now is rather or not I should carbonate it....I'm a fan of stouts, alot of which have little to no carbonation, and it's half mead which normally is not carbonated...

I'll definitely look into those other herbs thank you.. especially the yarrow because I'm doing a 1 gallon mead next week and a floral note would probably go good in that. and I used Safale S-04 Dry Ale Yeast. honestly I don't know much about yeast yet I'm still learning. i told the owner...

after this batch is in the 2nd carboy (probably 2 weeks) im going to try to make another one and I'm definitely going to try to aim for more of a 5% abv....I'm really interested in trying some diffrent braggot recipes to find one I like.

I brewed today..I did cut back alittle, however I brewed before reading your last reply I did roughly 4 llbs honey and I tooka pound of base malts out. they were mixed when they miled them at the store so I don't know the exact amount of each now but I'll assume around .5 llbs of each (the im...

hmm, we're would you start reducing...I was already debating cutting the honey to 5 llbs vs 7...because the honey I bought is in 5 llbs jugs. so maybe: 5 llbs honey 3 llbs 2 row 2 llbs vienna .5 llbs crystal malts .5 llbs dark roasted malts

thank you for the help...like I said I'm in over my head lol I'm on my way to the store now to buy the yeast and I'll look into how to do a starter maybe I'll be able to pull that off. I'll post an update later

thank you for checking my grain bill, honestly im probably not ready to create my own recipe yet, iv made 3 batches of beer before but they all were from kits I was planning on mashing but if you think stepping would work better I'm not against trying it out and as far as yeast I have no idea...

I'm mostly worried about the grain bill

so iv made a few beers...but never tried to get creative and make my own recipe, so here it goes I want to make a braggot but with mug wort and juniperror berries instead of hops, I was thinking something along these lines for 5 gallons: -7 llbs honey - 2 llbs vienna malts - 4 llbs 2...