I started brewing mead last night, two gallon jugs each with two pounds of honey. One has a package of blackberries and one has a package of blueberries in it and I threw a handful of cut up strawberries into each. I guess I'll report back with the results in six months.
[editline]25th June 2011[/editline]
Anyone here with mead brewing experience?
A friend of mine used to brew mead every now and then, it sound very simple and it's tasty!
Also:[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mClSA1LZPIs[/media]
Lately our family has started brewing beer. We farm barley and buy yeast, and we've become pretty good at malting it ourselves. We've finished our first batch a couple weeks ago, an ale, and there is currently a lager fermenting in our basement. We are also experimenting with making wines, which takes quite a long time, but the results are actually quite surprising once you taste them!
Today i made a 10 liter batch of Mead
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I have to say the last time I made mead it was such a colour that when ever somebody saw it they must have thought I was urinating in a jug.
My neighbor makes moonshine. Such is life in Kentucky.
[QUOTE=Crastopher;30962749]My neighbor makes moonshine. Such is life in Kentucky.[/QUOTE]
i make it 2 :D
My father tried to make wine last year, in the living room. It went wrong and the giant flask thing popped open and there was grape juice everywhere.
Apparently my grandad used to make wine, and sometimes the big glass bottles he used would pop and there would be red stains in his bed room cupboard.
for anyone who wish to make there own still here is two great .Pdf files describing how to make them.
[url]http://www.amazingstill.com/Amazingstill.pdf[/url]
[url]http://www.bryggforum.nu/wiki/wiki/upload/The_Spiral_still.pdf[/url]
i own a spiral still with a capacity of about 60 liters of mash.
Cheers everyone the mead taste great for being new! :P
is this a bad batch? my other one doesn't have that in it.
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should i not even bother siphoning it?
its mead
[QUOTE=Caesar;30219803]Do it like us Irish do and make alcohol from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poteen"]potatoes[/URL]![/QUOTE]
My gran has a bottle of that. Even though its around 70/80 vol you can really taste the potato.
We use to make alcohol from potatoes here in Sweden
they produced in such large scale that it became a problem feeding their family's
and was outlawed in 1756. After the famine it became legal once again and in 1830 there where 170 000 active stills in Sweden. because of increased alcohol consumption (45 liters per capita/year) it became illegal 1860 for good.
No more potato alcohol? Thats horrible!
I really wish this thread where more active
I cant get this song out of my head!
[video=youtube;ziLagAgoPCE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLagAgoPCE&feature=share[/video]
Im going to try and make cider soon when apples are ripe. What is the best way to juice them?
[QUOTE=Xombi;31957136]I really wish this thread where more active
I cant get this song out of my head!
[video=youtube;ziLagAgoPCE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLagAgoPCE&feature=share[/video][/QUOTE]
Great song, and great version!
Still waiting for my wine to be finished.
The apple trees in our garden should be ready to harvest soon and we can crack out the press, yess! Also for anyone in the UK, Wiklo's does quality homebrew stuff much cheaper than it can be found in specialised shops.
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