I'm starting a sweet milk chocolate stout this weekend. Honey's a bit scarce and expensive right now and the new hives didn't take off like we'd hoped, to we'll have to buy more for future batches in the upcoming winter. So beer it'll have to be. Doubling up the lactose, increasing the ABV and blending in a lot of cocoa and a dash of coffee in the end. I can't wait!
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What did you brew during your Coronacation?
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I've also started a couple of batches of Kombucha with elderflower tea and with elderberry tea. You can't have enough viral tonic around!
You got that right! I'm starting all these batches knowing that soon I'll probably be too busy to finish them all, but once fermentation is complete, they can sit in the kegs for years until I get around to them.
Added Mead of Ra today. It’s a recreation of the mead King Tut was buried with. It was a big hit last time!
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An excellent characteristic for an adult hobby is that it should be able to be neglected without significant issue!
Heck. With mead, benign neglect make them better.
Finally started Ebulon's Honey is a Tart! This is an sour, ebulon braggot.
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We started off with a tart cherry/blackberry/black current on the day that NY started "distance learning". It is sitting in secondary right and tastes quite yummy!. More recently, we started a 5.5 gal raspberry melomel which we are going to break down and tweak in the secondary...trying a raspberry-chocolate, raspberry-mint, and maybe a raspberry-mint-chocolate. I also made a 2gallon batch of left over frozen fruit from the kid's lunches since I needed to clear out the freezer. I really have no idea what that is going to taste like but the freezer has room!
Sorry, missed this post. No I used no additives to my brew this time around (unlike I planned). Last round I added cocoa, coffee and liquorice. This time though, I used nothing but malt, yeast and lactose. The beer is great (it's done now). It's sweet, VERY chocolatey and missing a lot of the roast maltiness that I'm not a fan of. It tastes like I'm drinking that chocolate sauce you pour over ice cream, which is exactly what I was aiming for.
I had an issue on brew day though. I don't have a malt mill, and order my malts milled. My base malt wasn't milled, I didn't see this and mashed with the unmilled malt. Very low gravity, and I ended up with a 3% ABV beer (on the dot). Next time I'm aiming for double that, at least. Smaller batch, perhaps, but I want to hit 6% ABV at least.
No meads yet but I've brewed four beers: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone, Ayinger Maibock clone, Pilsner Urquel clone, and an English Brown ale kit. All are in secondaries, will start kegging tomorrow.
A friend has a small boysenberry patch and I have picked 30 lbs so far. I am planning a mead, a wheat beer, and a session mead with them. I'll go tomorrow and see if there are anymore berries. I take a 2 gallon bucket and spend about an hour picking the berries - I get 10-11 lbs each time. If I get more I will do a port as well.
A friend has a small boysenberry patch and I have picked 30 lbs so far. I am planning a mead, a wheat beer, and a session mead with them. I'll go tomorrow and see if there are anymore berries. I take a 2 gallon bucket and spend about an hour picking the berries - I get 10-11 lbs each time. If I get more I will do a port as well.
Two batches of Solstice Apple Cherry Melomel. Two batches of Cherry Pyment, which are on Day 3. I'm here to look at my blueberry recipes because I heard the blueberry farm down the road is open now.
I'm thinking that this list is going to be long, so please bare with me ;-) Cyser experiment (3.5 gallon batches) testing different yeast strains and what they offer to a cyser. The strains included K1V-1116, 71b, D-47, QA23 and heck I'm forgetting two others. 10 gallons of wildflower traditional twice then split into four (4x 5 Gallon) for fruit additions of 3 pounds per gallon: Blueberry, Strawberry, Blackberry and Raspberry. An experiment on the amount of peaches-mangoes-papaya to reach the taste profile desired 2 gallons each at 1 lb, 2 lb, and 3 lb. of fruit per gallon. Two Acerglyns one of which is in a ten gallon bourbon barrel for a years nap ;-P Two 5 gallon Orange Mels, three 3 gallon Lemon Gingers, a five gallon Mandarin Orange, 3 gallon traditionals of Mesquite, Avacado, Buckwheat, Fireweed, Orange Blossom, Meadowfoam, Blueberry and a 1 gallon Tupelo. Just a few from this list. Today was two five gallon Pyments, 1 red (RC212) 1 white (QA23). Should not run out of good mead for a few days ;-P
Hey 58 L
was wondering if you dry hopiped The Pilsner?
if so for how long and how long did you lager and did you continually drop temperatures?
