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    #5636984 - 05/16/06 10:51 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I decided to brew up a gallon of Mead, since I do quite enjoy the idea of making my own alcoholic beverage.

Being cheap as I am, my fermentation chamber wound up being pretty ghetto.

I took a recently emptied milk jug, washed it out nicely, and then sterilized it. I poured the hot must into it, let it cool, then added yeast.

I made an airlock by putting a hole in the lid, inserting a drinking straw, and sealing with silicone sealant. The other end is submerged in a full water bottle with a bit of bleach.




When the fermentation was slowing, I sampled the mead for flavor... it tasted pretty lame. So, I've made an attempt to salvage it. I spiced the mead using a mixture of allspice, cloves, cinnamon, and a puny trace of vanilla, and then added about 1/2 cup of sugar to kick the yeast back into fermenting (I figured I might as well increase the alcohol levels, too.)

The spices are why the mead has a brownish coloration, instead of the normal yellow.

Hopefully, the alcohol levels will kill the yeast before they can metabolize all the sugars, so the mead will stay slightly sweet. If it turns out okay, I'll call it a spiced mead and work on perfecting the recipie.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Konnrade]
    #5637027 - 05/16/06 11:12 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I'm interested in homebrewing too. I was thinking of making a 5 gallon experimental run to see if I can produce anything good.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Konnrade]
    #5637098 - 05/16/06 11:34 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

what strain of yeast did you use?


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Konnrade]
    #5637117 - 05/16/06 11:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I've got a stout going. It's like having a bunch of seamonkeys that make you alcohol.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: goobler]
    #5637122 - 05/16/06 11:44 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

here's a recipe to try:

1 gal:

8 or so bottles of aquafina
2-3 lbs of blueberrys
2-4 pounds of honey
lavlin D-47


forgot to add: wash hands and be as clean as you can! had last 3 batches fail on me because of this.
add honey to 1 gallon bottle. Smash or juice blueberrys and add juice and pulp. rehydrate yeast by directions. add water to bottle but leave alot more space than you think! add bunghole, Shake the hell out of it to mix honey(lol with finger over the hole). then add the yeast mixture( hopefully you still have about a cup or 2 of headspace!!
if not you will regrete it. add airlock(filled with water).
also:after the "rough" fermentation top back up to the top with more water.
after fermentation add some oak cubes(this will turn a shitty drink into something written in a book). age, then drink.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Konnrade]
    #5637140 - 05/16/06 11:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

From what i understand honey takes a few months to ferment. Its complex and takes a while to break down.

Good stuff though bro!


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5637144 - 05/16/06 11:53 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I brew at least 5 gal batches


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: goobler]
    #5637150 - 05/16/06 11:56 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Same here a glass carboy is where it's at! Hell a bucket is where its at!
Hell a bathtub is where its really really at!!!!!!


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5637156 - 05/16/06 11:58 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Here's a partial extract recipe for my favorite homebrew thus far:

Belgian Golden Ale

2 lbs. Belgian 2-row
1/2 lb Biscuit
1/4 lb Barley Flakes
6 lbs Pale Malt Extract
1 oz bullion hops  (60 mins)
1 oz styrian golding hops (1/2- 30 mins, 1/2- 10 mins)
Belgian Ale liquid yeast (white labs)

(For those who don't know the prep)
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Infuse grains at 155F (when water starts to steam) in about 3 gallons of water.  Wait for 45 minutes, with lid on pot.  Rinse grainbag with a little near boiling water (or dunk in wort repeatedly, between 3-10 times depending on how paranoid you are).

Raise heat until just before boil.  Mix in malt and bullion hops.  Bring to a rolling boil.  Add 1/2 oz of s. golding hops after it's been boiling for 30 minutes.  Add the other half after it's been boiling for 50 minutes.  Turn off heat, and lid pot.  Put in ice water bath or use a wort chiller.  Once the wort is below 80 F, put into fermenter and pitch (put in) your yeast.  Now you pour over your other 2-3 gallons of water until you've got about 5.5 gallons of beer in your fermenter.  This step should also aerate the yeast, so pour hard.
 
6 days in the primary (until it stops bubbling frequently), 15-16 days in secondary (until haze drops), 2 weeks (preferrably more) in the bottle.

At bottling, make a syrup using 3/4 of a cup of dextrose and about a cup of water.  Add this to the beer, stir gently without agitating the nasties at the bottom, and bottle.

It ages very well, and it tastes lovely.  It starts out very strong tasting, and gently mellows out with age.  And it's 6.7 abv.  :thumbup:


Edited by Jfisher (05/16/06 12:18 PM)


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Jfisher]
    #5637504 - 05/16/06 01:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I buy all my beer making stuff from this place by my house.

They have EVERYTHING.  even a huge selection of fresh hops, grains and extracts. 

Havnt built my own brew from the ground up yet but they have lists of diferent beers to make.  My favorite so far was a Roucous Red Ale.  Tasted like Killians Irish Red.

I think next batch Ill make something I made up totaly myself.  Something strong.  Ill call it Gabba Juice. :grin:


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Jfisher]
    #5637548 - 05/16/06 01:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

use an glass 1gal like an applie juce comes in. Air can get thou the milk jug and I don't heat up the honey. boiling it seems to lose of the honeys alot of the flavor and try deff kinds of honey like OB honey, buckweat, wild,and others here is a link to a bee keeping web page with lots of info, i use a top bar hive.
Hears one for buying all kinds of honey types http://glorybeefoods.com/gbf/
beekeeping web page
http://www.beesource.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
http://www.northernbrewer.com/
http://www.breworganic.com/index.htm
my fav
http://www.williamsbrewing.com/index.cfm


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: goobler]
    #5637880 - 05/16/06 02:54 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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goobler said:
what strain of yeast did you use?




I used a wine yeast, I've discarded the package, so I don't recall what specific type of wine yeast it was.

I also made the mistake of being uber miserly and only using 1 pound of honey in the gallon. That was way too little. I should have used 2 pounds at the bare minimum.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Konnrade]
    #5638516 - 05/16/06 05:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

General rule is 3# honey for a gallon for a dry mead, 5# honey for a gallon for a sweet mead. White Labs, Lalvin, Wyeast have sweet and dry mead/cider yeasts.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: daussaulit]
    #5639105 - 05/16/06 07:44 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

anytime ive used anything but lalvin ive had bad results don't know if its due to the yeast or my own stupidity...but when i stopped using lalvin i got 3 contaims stright...that was using red star yeast.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5639353 - 05/16/06 08:40 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Honey Mead - home brewed - been sitting for nearly 7 years




If you live in So-Cali look up brew bakers - its a brew own beer place - best beer ive ever had hands down - and i drink a lot...


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: ManianFH]
    #5639393 - 05/16/06 08:47 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

so what you made some mead, likes it, so threw it in a jar and pc'ed it? lol it would be a good way to ensure against contaims, but wouldn't it ruin the wine?


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5639862 - 05/16/06 10:17 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

My guess is that he's letting it age.


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: Konnrade]
    #5639898 - 05/16/06 10:23 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

but i don't understand why it would be in a mason jar unless he had pc'ed it


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5639904 - 05/16/06 10:24 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

lol and i just now figered out what that is sitting next to it


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Re: Brewing@home [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5640486 - 05/17/06 12:26 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

i love ghetto setups, this looks promising !

how are things progressing ?


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