/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I homebrew my own hot sauce as a side gig to my soybean farm business

>>17184879
great, when can I fuck your 'wife'?

>>17184863
I make beer, cider and spirits.

I used to do all grain BIAB but the local brew store closed

>>17184863
I brewed (?) my first batch of apple wine this autumn. My grandam has got an orchard, so everything was naturally sourced. Came out quite decent, especially wen chilled it's a good drink to have with meat pies. Had some for Christmas Dinner. Really comfy stuff, especially now with temperature getting around -20 deg C.

I brewed 25L of white wine last year, yea, its not "good" but around a $1/L suddently the perspective changes.
And it was fun
Pic rel pre filtering and clearing

I have some white rum thats needs to age another year. Its just starting to taste sweet and smooth now. Gonna make some whiskey next month. Have to gather up all and clean all my supplies.

>>17184989
Forgot picture

>>17184996
Nice man, wanna post your recipe?

>>17184863
i brewed for about 5 years but got tired of how repetitive it was
anyone want some recipes?

>>17184863
You could smoke meth in that.

I'm interested in trying to brew mead. Anyone have any suggested reading or videos? I'd like to have a homestead where I produce my own mead, but I'm not quite sure where to start on the learning aspect.

>>17185976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTudpZD3uLo&t=73s

>>17185976
Register at this site:
https://www.gotmead.com/

Very comfy site with great people.

>>17185992
>>17186011

Thanks anons

>>17185729
yeah i just make shitty sugar wash in home depot bukcet

>>17184863
first time with beer, doing a belgian white clone, i also have a cherry-honey wine made from bread yeast that i bottle conditioned to be sparkling that i plan to open up tomorrow, and i hope it doesnt explode on me

I recently started all grain brewing and I think I've got a good grasp on the process but my efficiency is absolute shit, typically in the 30's, maybe 40's if I'm lucky. I fly sparge but I think my sparge arm is garbage, it's a cross style PVC arm and I typically finish sparging a 5 gallon batch in like 5 minutes, is that the main culprit?

Also how do you guys develop recipes?

>>17186451
developing new recipes is a bit of a pain but mostly it's born out of laziness because you just decided to gather all your extra grain and just steep it maybe because you bought a little too much in previous runs
with all grain brewing even if you follow a recipe every time you brew its gonna be different tasting so going out of your way to come up with something new isnt a great method of new recipes
instead you should follow an all grain recipe with all the ingredients it calls for, and if you think you should add or remove a few things to improve the taste or use different methods, that will become a new recipe
but in all unless you have a specific idea for something you cant really find you should probably just leave recipes to whats tried and true with a little variation