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Good morning! I mixed up a new batch this morning. Praying to the mead gods that it all turns out great! The blueberry juice was absolutely fantastic to work with. It was much more tannic than I anticipated from a reconstituted concentrate. It has deep floral flavors, a good acid balance and...

Good evening! I’m planning my next brew and am looking for some feedback. I want to do a blueberry mead, but am not sure if I want to do all blueberry or a mix of blue berry and black currant. Here is what I was thinking… 16 gallon recipe, target OG 1.110 Carrot honey (probably 12-14lb) 1...

Good evening, I have made my second batch of mango habanero mead. The first batch was amazing but it’s unfortunately all gone… it lasted 15 months. This time I am aiming for 5 gallons of finished product instead of the 2.5 that I ended with last time. I also made some modifications to the...

Good evening, We cracked our last bottle of mango habanero mead over thanksgiving this year and it was a hit. To say it knocked the socks off of people was an understatement. It’s time to make some more! We attended a rather large Friendsgiving and I brought 3 bottles of mead + 1 bottle of...

Good afternoon and happy holidays! I made some apple wine today with apples picked from my family trees. The apples were picked starting in mid August through mid October (as they ripened) then stored in the chest freezer. Scratted, pressed as pitched today. Unknown amount of pounds, 5.5 US...

I finally went all out with a proper wine. I’ve made wine from box kits, other fruit wines and a ton of mead but this is my first proper wine… Last Sunday my wife and I went to a local U-pick vineyard (Oregon costal mountains, near Corvallis). We harvested 135 pounds of Pinot Noir, enough to...

My mother in law found this in a little shop on the coast and sent me over a bottle. I’m excited to try it this evening. It’s a bit higher abv than I would make but otherwise the process sounds great. This particular cidery also makes my favorite store bought east to find cider - The bad apple...

Good day! I am coming into ownership of a great many of fresh figs. My friend had a bumper crop this year and has “a **** load” of figs. She asked me if I wanted them and I said I would take as much as she was willing to send my way. She has harvested twice for me and they are currently...

I’ve been dreaming of making blackberry wine this summer as I eyeball a giant patch of Himalayan blackberries in my mother-in-law’s back yard. Then tonight I thought tonight as I inspected the berries for ripening… what if I used buckwheat honey instead of standard table sugar for increasing...

It’s been a few years now since I made kefir, since then I took up winemaking. I I am trying my hand at kefir again, this time with all the extra knowledge I’ve gained. Below is my planned process, would love some feedback on. I don’t want it to be alcoholic. I make enough of that and would...

Good morning, Years ago my mother in law grew “table grapes”. At the base of the grapes she also grew lavender. The grapes took on a distinctive lavender flavor because of this, they made for delicious snacking. It got me thinking, since I’m planning on planting a few rows of grapes...

Good afternoon, After a very trying week, I took a few hours to put myself in a better headspace. I took some wide swings on this and already feel there is room for improvement next year. That being said, assuming nothing goes wrong during fermentation this one will have a few bottles set aside...

There is a cherry tree in my back yard. I have no idea exactly what kind of cherry it produces… maybe Rainer. It’s doing good this year. Last year was exceptionally weak for the tree, only 1-2 cherries made it. The rest got moldy on the branch so I trimmed it last fall with the idea to let more...

Good evening, I took a risk on a store bought mead for the first time in years. Honestly, still disappointed. $13’ish for a wee bottle. Initial look - light but cloudy AF. Come on man, this is the easiest bar to hit! Mouthfeel - coating, smooth, buttery. Definitely the best part of the...

Good afternoon, I am contemplating my next endeavor and I thought back to some of those box wine kits that come with enough juice to make 6 gallons. My thought is, if it’s really is higher quality wine grape juice concentrate, why am I deluding it with so much water? What if instead of using...

From everything I’ve read, honey has very little malic acid. That elbowing said, would it make sense to add some malic acid to the must (maybe in secondary?) and some bacterial culture with the goal of MLF? Would it just be too much acid or could that buttery mouthfeel be properly replicated?

I did it! After months of lurking on this forum and watching you tube videos, I took the dive and made my first cheese. Picture and notes below, I’ll definitely be making more again soon. 3/31/23 - farmhouse cheddar rev1 1.5 gallon of organic valley whole milk (Heated to 90 deg) 1/2 cup...

I did it, I made another mead! Pitched the yeast this afternoon, shot complete off the cuff, no recipe was followed. 14.5lb blackberry honey, smoke 3 hours with apple wood (stirred every 20 minutes). 96oz organic tart cherry juice, not from concentrate. 1.5 gallons black cherry juice, not from...

Rainier cherries will be coming into season at my local u-pick farm in the next 3 months. I was thinking of pick 50-75 pounds to make into a cherry mead. How do these cherries do compared to the tart charries we buy at the store? For reference, I’m going to juice 2/3rds of the cherries and use...

Anyone ever made 1 of these, or this 1 in particular? What are your opinions?