This is one of the early iterations of this recipe, where we used a cold steep for the grains. Current iterations use a hot mash, but this recipe is very smooth and well-balanced. BC loves a good barleywine, but they can be hard to find and relatively expensive. In developing this recipe, he set out to emulate those flavors with an ingredient he loves — honey! This is a mead/braggot…
In this short video, BC and David try a few different brewed and fermented concoctions — including a mystery bottle discovered in the darkest reaches of the basement.…
I know what this sounds like, but I promise you’ll be pleased you tried it. Skeeter Pee is a now-infamous recipe for fermenting lemonade. You’ll need some granulated sugar and three big bottles of lemon juice. Skeeter Pee uses the remaining slurry from an existing batch of wine or mead. So, for example, if you’ve just racked off your apple cider and have a yeast cake sitting in the bottom…
Yeast isn’t expensive — but it also isn’t cheap! Yeast washing allows you to use the same yeast colony in your next batch of brewed beverages. Save money by investing a little time! The Process 1. Boil water Simply, boil a few quarts of water then allow to cool to room temperature. You’ll need this in step 4. 2. Harvest your slurry Rack off your beer/mead/cider/wine from primary into secondary.…
Fruit can be expensive. Exotic fruits even more so – gooseberries, dates, and elderberries can all set you back a pretty penny. Enter jam wine. It’s exactly as it sounds – wine made from jam. Use about four pounds of jam per gallon of water. Your gravity reading may be a little bit off from all the pectin in the jam, so don’t worry about getting too scientific with this…
Homebrewing of mead has begun to gain traction in the last few years. Is mead the new trendy beverage? Is honey water more bougie than fruit- or malt-based worts? Whatever the reason, it seems like mead might be here to stay. So many YouTube channels and internet forums advocate for various methods of making meads that are fast ferments and quick to hit the table. But hold on there a…
It’s that time of year. The freezer is full of fruit. You really did intend to start living that fruit smoothie life, but then… Starbucks and Poptarts got back in the way. So now you’ve got chunked mango, Thanksgiving cranberries, and carrots? Are those shredded carrots? You can’t eat it all. Freezer burn is just on the horizon. And the cell walls of all that fruit are completely obliterated so…