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>looking up mead recipes
>find videos of grown men literally larping as vikings in full costume

What are you brewing, /ck/?

>> No.9456113
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kölsch
irish red

got a mead i kegged back in december. gonna tap it this december

>> No.9456118
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belgian witbier in the carboy

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>>9456118
belgian witbier in the glass

>> No.9456151

>>9456113
>>9456121
Fuck, those look good. This weekend I'm planning on starting some brochet (burnt honey mead) and I'm probably going to start a new batch of red wine.

>> No.9456157
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>>9456151
thanks, anon.

english brown ale

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muh brew house

>> No.9456274
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I just dumped all this into my fermenter, hoping for the best.

>> No.9456282

>>9456274
Um, does that cider have a bunch of yeast in the bottom or did you leave your yeast out of the picture?

>> No.9456293

>>9456054
Anybody got a good mead recipe? It'll be my first time, but my girlfriend will be around to monitor it and keep anything from going wrong.

>> No.9456297

>>9456282
There's a packet of yeast under the lid of that green tin that says cider on the label. Also put a teaspoon of yeast nutrient in to help it along.

>> No.9456301

>>9456293
Try this one

https://aussiehomebrewer.com/threads/jao-the-ultimate-beginners-mead-recipe.32762/

>> No.9456317

New Glaurus spotted cow clone on the left which I'll be bottling in a few days, a dry mead which I'll be going to secondary with soon and two carboys of blueberry wine on the right in secondary.

>> No.9456318

>>9456293
>2017
>Trusting a woman

>> No.9456328

>>9456297
Ah. I see. That makes more sense.

>> No.9456332

>>9456173
Is the middle one the lauter tun? I assume one on the burner is the boil kettle and one the mash tun, right?

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>>9456317
*forgot pic, lol

>> No.9456339

>>9456332
hot liquor tank, mash tun, boil kettle. from left to right

>> No.9456344

>>9456301
Do you know enough about mead to know whether this will scale up safely? Ive got a 5-gallon kit.

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Combined ingredients on left with sugar & fermented in the plastic bottle for 9 days, filtered and drank half but it was still a little sweet and weak so I'm doing a secondary fermentation in the bottle on the right. Honestly not a bad recipe, very drinkable and no off flavors.

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My beer fridge

>> No.9456375

>>9456344
Sorry I've never made mead before but I don't think there's any reason why it wouldn't work, just get your maths right and you should be OK.

>> No.9456433

>>9456301
It says 7/8 lb of honey per quart of water results in a mead that's quite sweet. If I want dry or mildly sweet mead, should I go down to 3/4 lb per quart of even lower to 1/2 lb?

>> No.9456448

>>9456433
I'm not sure mate, I've never made mead, I've been eyeballing that recipe for a while though.

>> No.9456453

>>9456448
Ah okay, maybe someone else will know. Was planning on trying to make mead again soon but the last time it resulted in something that was dry but not very strong in flavor or alcohol content either so I think I didn't use enough. Not a big fan of sweet drinks and really don't want to end up with sweet mead.

>> No.9456473

>>9456453
I use 12 lbs of honey/4 gallons of water with Lavlin EC1118 Champagne yeast and always get a dry mead @ 11-12% alcohol.

>> No.9456494

>>9456473
Thanks, I'll try that ratio and see how it turns out.

>> No.9456687

New wine kit just arrived today. FUCK YEAR

>> No.9456909

>>9456473
Do you use any other additives?

>> No.9456949

>>9456473
I did that only I added a can of Pineapple juice and a bottle of Key Lime Juice and when I racked into secondary I added another 6 lbs of honey. Final ABV was somewhere in the 25%+ range. (forgot to take the FG at secondary and my vinometer only reads up to 25%)

>> No.9456962

>>9456433
First of all what yeast are you using?

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>>9456054
>he doesn't want to dress up like a viking and make mead
What are you, gay?

>> No.9457195

>>9456962
It's just baking yeast, I forget which brand. It turned 2 lbs of honey in a gallon of water pretty dry. Not sure what the abv in that would be, just hoped someone would give me an estimate.

>> No.9458488

>>9457195
baking yeast usually dies off around 12% AVB, which is pretty stout for a fermented beverage. 2lb of honey in 1 gallon of water sounds like you probably wet to about 8% and the yeast dies from starvation. If you go to 3 lbs per gallon you'll end up with a semi-sweet that actually hits 12%. Add in a little citrus juice or vitamin C powder (the yeast likes the added acidity) and some yeast nutrient and you'll get faster colonization and faster fermentation.