I took second place in the Northern Oaken regional A&S with my Raspberry cyser this weekend... Wasn't quite expecting that with my second brewing project...
nice and congrats ... -- "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" Voltaire nice...
looking at a lot of the docs on old pot stills and more recent rumrunning, one thing i always see is a caution to not have your main still and thumper (if you...
Since the award winning raspberry recipe isn't being posted yet, I thought I'd share the recipe that I'm using now, which is turning out to be pretty damn good...
Wow! 5 Lbs/Gallon honey? What is the alcohol tolerance of Montrachet? I like my mead pretty darn sweet, but that sure seems super sweet. I take it the...
well you can vary the honey from 3 to 5 pounds. Because I've been doing some fine tuning, it's hard to say what the initial gravity was. Too many changes...
come to think about it, 5 lbs was an exaggeration. I'm not thinking clearly since I've only had 3 hours sleep in the last 48 hours. I'd say it's more than...
My esteamed SCA Brewers, I produced a respectable chocolate codial this past winter / Breakup (what Alaskan's call spring), but some felt is was too thick....
Is this like the one I tried, when the bubbler filled with fudge? Slow fermenting to start my aunt Fannie. Maria, who never did explain to her landlord why...
If you stabilize the mead before sweetening with additional honey/juice, you can get an accurate %ABV using a vinometer (available for around $7 at supply...
Montrachet dies out between 12 and 14 percent. 5lbs/gal would leave you with pancake syrup... especially with the high sugar content in the berries that would...
Would it? I thought that yeast preferentially metabolizes glucose rather than fructose. (glucose being present in both the berries and honey) With it all...
just a reminder of my project, I made 10 gallons of plain mead, racked it a couple times, then took a gallon sample and flavored it. The yeast were pretty...
Greetings one and all ! B3 will be hosting a Mead day on Saturday May 13th from 10am till . I have the honor of teaching a short class starting about 10:30 and...
I might be able to go and bring my first project: Mikhails Mulled Mesquite Mead. It's about half a year old by now, and it's starting to get interesting....
oooo. id be interested in the recipe of that. ... -- "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to...
Sorry folks, real life has been intervening on me.. here we go: 1 Gallon of apple juice 3-4 lbs generic clover honey (bought from Sams Club) Lalvin EC-1118...
It looks like the war at the end of this month, Potrero (my favorite war for some odd reason), doesn't have a brew competition established. I was wondering...
You know, we can always do a tasting, if no competition can be whipped together. Donal ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
The sugars in honey are complex rather than simple, and must be broken down before the yeast can eat the component parts. Therefore, the simple sugars in the...
still, I waited until the yeast were almost completely done with the honey before adding the berries. And if it dries out again, I'd add more berries until it...
I have had great success in using Blackberries and Raspberries in my meads. I usuallu add them at the beginning then again after the second racking or so to...
I have had great success in using Blackberries and Raspberries in my meads. I usuallu add them at the beginning then again after the second racking or so to...
... Huh? The sugars in honey are 95% fermentable by ordinary yeast. Oligosaccharides ("complex sugars") are only around 4% of average honey. The most prevalent...
