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 All wine makers. What are you making. 
#24014147 - 01/16/17 09:36 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just started a cranberries and pominagranite wine with a premier cuvee yeast.
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 Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: psilly the kid]
#24022368 - 01/19/17 09:12 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Orange blossom/apple juice cyser with narbonne yeast, spiced with cinaamon and vanilla.
Im not so big a wine guy, but some sour red ales are coming up and theyre almost wine like.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: Prem. Kissoff]
#24023174 - 01/19/17 03:05 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't really do beer all too much but cyser can take on beerlike notes when you let it go to dry, especially when you use clover or buckwheat honey. Never have done orange blossom. Do you find that it's worth it.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: psilly the kid]
#24030079 - 01/22/17 10:06 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I make sweet meads ending up around 17%, never made a dry mead but I did recently enjoy one from a friend,
I definitely find orange blossom honey to be superior to most other honeys and the best meadmaker I know uses tons of the stuff, sometimes blended, sometimes singularly. Some say "heather" honey is better but i dont know what it is or how to get it.
I make a drive out to the semi-local apiary and buy a gallon of fresh honey or two. Makes a nice date too 
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: Prem. Kissoff]
#24030083 - 01/22/17 10:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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If youre not in an area with citrus you can substitute, just try to get the best quality honey you can, avoid cheap tubs of generic honey very often theyre cut with corn syrup and other crap or superheated for filtration, bad bad bad.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: Prem. Kissoff]
#24063804 - 02/03/17 09:57 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Carefull with orange blossom honey as it's said to be the most counterfeit honey their is, My local supermarket sells a brand of 'Orange blossom honey' thats made in New Jersey ! ! ! (Their are no orange groves in NJ)
tupelo honey is said to be one of the sweetest honey their is
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: LIBERTYNY]
#24074467 - 02/08/17 09:25 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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5 gallon of tangelo wine. Fresh squeezed from the tree
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Hi everyone,
Currently I have a 5 gallon batch of mead in secondary, a 5 gallon batch of cider in secondary, a one gallon mead in primary (soon to be a capscumel), and two one gallon batches of wine made from store bought concentrate one from Welch's and another from generic to see what one tastes better. It is cool to see that there are other people into fermenting here.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: gabeb123]
#24123404 - 02/27/17 11:22 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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it's not a wine but I'm going to be brewing a dark heavy beer bittered with wormwood. 10 percent abv two of these puts me right down.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: Prem. Kissoff]
#24150731 - 03/10/17 08:04 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Prem. Kissoff said:
I make a drive out to the semi-local apiary and buy a gallon of fresh honey or two. Makes a nice date too
That sounds like a good date!
I've got a dry forest metheglin going right now, a simple 1:1 blend of herbal mushroom tea and honey water. The brew cleared up beautifully with Belgian ale yeast. I'll referment it with champagne yeast this weekend, then bottle condition it with more Belgian yeast.
For 1 gallon of tea:
- 14 g dry mushrooms
- 14 g hawthorne flower
- 7 g fennel seed
- 3.5 g black tea
- 5 black peppercorns
- 3 whole cloves
- 1 c (1/2 lb) cane sugar
Boil the tea with another gallon of water, 2 lbs of buckwheat honey, and 1 lb of clover honey. I used shiitake and oyster mushrooms in the tea, but chanterelle and reishi are better.
Possible ingredients for next time: pu-erh tea, dandelion root, rosemary, juniper berries, wildflowers, mosses, and lichens.
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psilly the kid said:
it's not a wine but I'm going to be brewing a dark heavy beer bittered with wormwood. 10 percent abv two of these puts me right down.
I have to try this next. How do you use the wormwood? Does it replace one of the hops?
I've used wormwood in several liqueurs before, and always extract it separately for only 1-2 days. But it seems much less poisonous in beer wort vs. grain alcohol.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: AndyHinton]
#24150768 - 03/10/17 08:19 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I only use it during dry hopping. and a little goes a long way. I have a sensitivity to hops so I I try to use as little as possible. ill dig out my recipes and post a couple.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: psilly the kid]
#24151335 - 03/10/17 12:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for the tips. Dry hopped wormwood makes perfect sense.
Here's the original forest mead recipe.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: AndyHinton]
#24157388 - 03/12/17 09:32 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have a dry mead going and a few days from now I'm starting ten gallons of mixed berry wine.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: psilly the kid]
#24291711 - 05/03/17 07:48 AM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just started two strait meads, one metheglin, and one cyser! All are happily bubbling away...now it's just the waiting game 
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: trendal]
#24291725 - 05/03/17 07:55 AM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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Chardonnay, Zinfandel blush, Merlot
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: trendal]
#24291879 - 05/03/17 09:11 AM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
trendal said:
I just started two strait meads, one metheglin, and one cyser! All are happily bubbling away...now it's just the waiting game
Nice variety! I try to always have something fermenting in my room. The bubbling is very peaceful at night.
By the way, the forest metheglin was delicious. I'm ageing the last bottle for a year.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: AndyHinton]
#24291887 - 05/03/17 09:15 AM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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How long did you let it sit?
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: trendal]
#24291902 - 05/03/17 09:20 AM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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Only a week or two between bottling and drinking. A couple bottles sat a few weeks longer and mellowed out nicely. The fennel really changed the nature of the sweetness in a refreshing way.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: AndyHinton]
#24307831 - 05/09/17 05:52 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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sounds great.
I'm trying to make a necromangocon clone....it's a black pepper mango mead and its on point.
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Re: All wine makers. What are you making. [Re: psilly the kid]
#24472159 - 07/10/17 09:39 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Choke cherry and dandelion wine, should be racking them soon and getting an idea of what it tastes like this year.
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#24474433 - 07/11/17 05:28 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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I just racked my four different meads last weekend! They still have a long way to go, but are coming along nicely!! The meads taste exactly as they should - dry but with some hint of sweetness (which I havent been able to place, must be some kind of unfermentable sugar in the honey) - but the metheglin and the cyser taste pretty awesome!! First time I've had either of them, and wow!!! The metheglin in particular tastes very festive!!
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#24474662 - 07/11/17 08:28 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Meads are next up for me, never made tried one so I'll likely try something ridiculously simple. Also NEED to get myself a still and distill something fierce.
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#24474695 - 07/11/17 08:48 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, simple meads are the way to go, at first!!! Just honey, water, and yeast! Maybe a campden tab, if you worry about that kind of thing.
I've been going with more and more abv - my first were around 12-13%, then 15%, and now 18%. Pure honey by itself can end up tasting flat and watery at the lower percentages, but the higher ones allow the full honey flavour to come through. It tastes quite a bit different than pure honey, though! I can't really describe it.
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#24496203 - 07/20/17 11:51 AM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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just moved to a semi rural area with a little bit of garden area. this fall putting in all sorts of fruit trees and will be learning the art of wine making. pretty exciting thread.
used to hang with some serious brewers but have not been around wine makers since i was a child and didn't really know what was going on.
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#24542620 - 08/09/17 09:14 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just finished my rice wine (SAKE) after 45 days. Doesn't have the warming feeling that I want.... Maybe I need more rice on day 21!
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Meads are next up for me, never made tried one so I'll likely try something ridiculously simple. Also NEED to get myself a still and distill something fierce.
Have you looked into an electric distiller?
I have been able to get 95% ABV with mine
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#24620031 - 09/11/17 07:48 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Finally done! Now it's on to storage... 
5 bottles of 18% mead
4 bottles of 15.5% mead
5 bottles of 13.5% metheglin
4 bottles of 15% cyser
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