Posted on 06/15/2012 3:30:28 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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The last time I made mead, some of the bottles spontaneously exploded. Either I need to refine the recipe, or procure stronger bottles...
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What’s the oldest known beer recipe?
Indeed! We are living in a Golden Age of beer. Drink up! How long can it last?
Could have been it needed to ferment for a longer time and the yeast had not done a complete fermentation yet. Same thing happens to beer if the yeast is not allowed to do its job. A mead can take a while to ferment - 3-4 months in the primary and about the same time in a secondary.
Asked the egyptian working on a pyramid.... ;)
Beer, onions, bread... They can't take it away from us.
/johnny
Yeast is a most magical friend of man.
You can easily culture yeast from some bottle conditioned beers made commercially. You will quickly learn how to make starters if you keep a yeast library on slants. I start my starters about 2 weeks out because when using a slant you are starting with a pinhead size cluster of cells.
First a 12oz starter then a 1/2 gallon starter. Pitch a half gallon to a 5 gallon batch and you will be rolling in a few hours.
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My neighbors have been admonishing me not to make any more homebrew. They tell me, “it makes me do funny things after I drink it”...........
I forgot where I read it, but was told that cane sugar gives a cidery flavor to the brew and should be avoided. Your opinion?
/johnny
Meh... my neighbor learned about specific gravity and checks all my new brews. He battens down the hatches if it's starting around 9%. ;)
/johnny
I cook all my own bread as well, so I rely on them for food and drink.
Nothing like having a trillion of your dearest friends eating, fornicating and dying so you can have a loaf of bread or glass of beer.
/johnny
This is my fourth batch. Neighbors and relatives clean me out fast so I thought 9 gallons might last awhile.
It is warm-hot and does have a nice taste. Some people use it as a marinade or in salad dressings.
I would definitely not get drunk on it. Unless you follow it up with lots of ice cream.
How many Jalapenos do you use in that wine? Are the fresh when you use them?
There are demo cane boils all over Florida in the fall I like the one in Gainsville the Saturday after Thanksgiving because they have a fiddle contest for my daughter to enter.
On another note what does everyone do for wine bottles? the bottles are priced reasonably until you get to the shipping then they tend to average out to about $2 per bottle. At that price I’d rather go down to the local Wally World and buy their plonk at $2.97 per bottle and dispose of the content in the approved way and own a bottle for a buck net. Any better ideas out there?
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