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3 Dog might be right about pitching. I tried this and my end product is sweet. Also, fermentation takes about forever and a day to finish out. So in the future if I do this again. I would back off on the fermentables and try and pitch as much live yeast as possible. Probably would have been...

One gallon Carboys are about 4 dollars at the HBS.

Way back when I got into this hobby. (About a year ago). I wanted to make nothing but Meads. But since then I have gotten hooked on beers. So back to the start. I want to make a perfect Mead or at least one that doesn't taste like jet fuel and battery acid mixed together. So here goes. Can...

Boing! When I first read that I thought it said 4 1/2 pounds. Gallons! Holy moly. Since your SWMBO would like a sweet drink be careful with the cherries. You might get a sour flavored cherry. Remember you only get out what you put into the batch. So if you put bad ingredients into the...

So my Braggot was sitting on the counter on Friday it was done bubbling on Thursday. So I figured I would bottle it on Friday. Well I didn't get around to it. Then comes gigantic Blizzard on Saturday. So I spent all day Saturday shoveling. Last night before I went to work I looked at the...

User name on Cityprofile is 1Brotherbill. So let me know when I win.

Need an update on this idea.

I could be wrong on this but Krausen means that gas is escaping from your bottles. In order for a Krausen to form you have to have the ability for pressure to escape.

Ok my girlfriend is hooked on Woodchuck. Well actually not hooked but she will drink this over others. So the question does anyone have a recipe that will give me a close resemblance of a Woodchuck Cider.

Just boil the malt like your making beer then add the honey after it's done boiling. I know this is nit picking but a braggot has more honey than malt. Otherwise it's just a beer with honey in it. My first braggot from scratch had 5lbs honey 3 lbs DME for five gallons. Let me tell...

Centrifugal Honey Extractor would work for this wouldn't it. Maybe even a salad spinner might work. Just slice the packs and toss them in and give them a spin. I bet that honey is pretty thin anyway so it probably flows with some ease. So kind of makes me wonder about the makeup of that...

What an ecological disaster. But since it's already packaged why not put it to use instead of the company tossing it at exp date. I wonder what it will turn out to taste like. Maybe you could write McDonalds and find out where they get the honey from. Then you could figure out what to add to...

Did you smoke this stuff or what? If you make a braggot are you going to use hops? Also what color was the honey?

Be thankful. I could have smelled and tasted like the north end of a south bound mule. That's what I ended up with.

Ok I know not a mead but there might be a point here. When I was a kid my parents made rootbeer every summer. Now what they did was mix sugar extract and yeast with about five gallons of water. I think it was ten pounds of sugar. I can't be sure because it was years ago. Then we just...

I'm not worried about the infection aspect it's the few ounces of Oxy Clean in the batch now. I read online that it is made from Sodium Percarbonate which breaks down in water to Hydrogen Peroxide and Soda Ash. Soda Ash is used in most water softeners. So maybe it's all right maybe it's not I...

So I bottled one batch of a braggot today. I realized at the end that when I was cleaning everything before hand I'm not entirely sure that I rinsed out the raking tube and hose or even put it in the sanitizer. I might have just primed the line with the solution of Oxy Clean and just started...

Technically not a braggot. However, to answer the question as best as I know how. I would say that since you racked it multiple times the yeast might be done. Then again maybe not it's hard to tell. I would prime it and see.

I have a cherry apple cider cooking away right now. The question I have is if I have add a sweetner would this work and is there enough sodium benzate in the grenadine or do I have to add campden tablets as well. Recipe is 3 cans Old Orchard Cherry Apple Concentrate, 4 tbs Lactose...

How would you know? This has me wondering about one of my batches now. What makes you think it's an infection? Just because it started bubbling again. You did rack it onto a sugar source. So maybe that is why it is bubbling again.