Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider

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A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.

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Introduction to Beer Brewing

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Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine

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Mead (self.homebrewing)

submitted 2 years ago by greatwhitebuffalo41 to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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How many of you make mead? I made my last small batch for Thanksgiving and I've just gotten caught up with life and other hobbies and forgot it existed until I saw this community.

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[–] denials@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mead was my gateway drug into home brewing. About two months ago I paid $15 for a learn to make mead class a friend held, and came back with a one gallon carboy of must (4 lbs of honey) into which I tossed some homegrown haskaps and then pitched my yeast.

Before I even racked that off into secondary, I had a 3 gallon carboy holding a melomel made with local wild blueberries. It's taking a slower fermentation path, but when I tasted it at 1.055 SG it was all good.

Since then I've made ginger beer (just bottled) and 3 gallons of cider that's ready to be racked off, as well as several batches of kombucha.

For those of you who have trouble writing things down, if you have an Android iPhone I recommend trying out the Mead Mate app. Free, no ads, just focused on helping you track all the important data and data points. Helps my scattered mind!

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mead mate exists in Android too!

[–] denials@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Hah, damned autocorrect--I did not mean to write "iPhone"!