Taiin
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Hallo, all!
New to posting on this forum. I've actually been searching through it for information for a while, and decided to finally join up. I'll upload an avatar soon enough, since I am not on my home computer and don't have access to pics. I hail from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
When I was a kiddo I used to help my father brew beer. I was too young to enjoy the bit where it got drunk afterward, but still, it was pretty fun, all the chemisty and cooking and whatnot. Well, he hasn't brewed in years, so I dug out the equipment to put it to use. I had to buy some new stoppers and fermentation locks since I couldn't find the old ones, but I didn't have to buy much. I have two five gallon and one six gallon carboy at my disposal, plus a pail fermenter. The possibilities are endless.
I might've gotten a little ambitious, because I sanitized everything, and have a batch of sack cyser I started yesterday morning. Before I left for work (night shifter), it was bubbling away merrily! 'tis my Bloodmoon Mead, named because there was a lunar eclipse the morning I made it. Lunar eclipses are always nifty to watch, if anyone else got the chance to see the moon turn red! I let my father know what I started up, and he is pumped! I may post all the lovely details like ingredients, specific gravity, etc. in the mead subforum.
I wish my honeybees had survived the winter so I could produce my own honey this year for mead. Alas, they perished. Four other people I know with honeybees very near me also lost all their honeybees this winter, it was not a good winter for bees. I am going to try again, but the first year a hive is established doesn't normally result in good production, since they need most of what they produce to survive.
New to posting on this forum. I've actually been searching through it for information for a while, and decided to finally join up. I'll upload an avatar soon enough, since I am not on my home computer and don't have access to pics. I hail from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
When I was a kiddo I used to help my father brew beer. I was too young to enjoy the bit where it got drunk afterward, but still, it was pretty fun, all the chemisty and cooking and whatnot. Well, he hasn't brewed in years, so I dug out the equipment to put it to use. I had to buy some new stoppers and fermentation locks since I couldn't find the old ones, but I didn't have to buy much. I have two five gallon and one six gallon carboy at my disposal, plus a pail fermenter. The possibilities are endless.
I might've gotten a little ambitious, because I sanitized everything, and have a batch of sack cyser I started yesterday morning. Before I left for work (night shifter), it was bubbling away merrily! 'tis my Bloodmoon Mead, named because there was a lunar eclipse the morning I made it. Lunar eclipses are always nifty to watch, if anyone else got the chance to see the moon turn red! I let my father know what I started up, and he is pumped! I may post all the lovely details like ingredients, specific gravity, etc. in the mead subforum.
I wish my honeybees had survived the winter so I could produce my own honey this year for mead. Alas, they perished. Four other people I know with honeybees very near me also lost all their honeybees this winter, it was not a good winter for bees. I am going to try again, but the first year a hive is established doesn't normally result in good production, since they need most of what they produce to survive.
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