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How to make GLOWING Home Brew drinks – EASY! Works for beer, wine, cider, and mead

A few years ago, a gene-editing laboratory went viral for creating a Belle Saison yeast that glowed in the dark. The claim was that, with this specially modified yeast, brewers could make beer that glowed fluorescent under black light. We were fascinated by this concept – and skeptical of the potential. So we put it to the test ourselves. And no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t get a…

November 1, 2021

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How to make Butter Beer – Homebrew recipe for a butterscotch bochet mead

This is a complex brew using multiple types of fermentable and nonfermentable sugars, some of which must be caramelized to achieve the roasty toffee and butterscotch flavors of the brew. This brew is designed to be carbonated and sweet. If you will be bottle conditioning, this will require the use of a nonfermentable sweetener (here, erythritol) as well as a fermentable sugar for priming the bottles. If kegging you can…

June 22, 2021

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EASY Alcoholic TEPACHE Recipe – TWO WAYS! How to make simple Pineapple Mead with Piloncillo

Let’s make a home brewed alcoholic version of tepache – a pineapple agua fresca style drink with a rich history! Tepache is a fermented beverage made from the peels of pineapples, and is sweetened either with piloncillo or brown sugar. It can be spiced with powdered cinnamon and clove — and it’s always best served cold! Even though tepache is fermented for several days, the resulting drink does not usually…

January 15, 2021

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FRUITED HYDROMEL MEADS with Blackberry and Boysenberry – carbonated and crispy

Having perfected our Crispy Honey Hydromel recipe, it was time to up our game. Homebrew Ohio reached out to discuss some fruit purées that might add a pop of fruity freshness to the recipe. We looked at grapefruit, blood orange, mango, raspberry, blueberry, and so many others. But we settled on homebrewing two thirst-quenching hydromel meads, one with blackberry and one with boysenberry. Purees were added in secondary and recipes…

July 18, 2020

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Coquito – Our Take on Puerto Rican Egg Nog

Coquito is a Puerto Rican take on eggnog. Due to shelf stability and availability, most coquito recipes use canned milk like evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. This recipe, adapted from our traditional eggnog recipe, uses fresh milk and powdered sugar instead. For the coconut components, we use two unsweetened canned ingredients: coconut cream and coconut milk. Unlike a typical eggnog recipe, this recipe uses no egg whites. The cinnamon extract can…

January 22, 2019 (Last Updated: January 26, 2019)

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Homemade Eggnog – Aged for 6 weeks!

Eggnog is often sort of just… gross. Grocery store nog is gooped up with thickeners and artificially colored until it’s more mustardy than the yellow you’d expect from eggs blended with ten times their weight in dairy. Liquor store nog tastes like canned milk — and the booze is either over-the-top or not enough to be worth the price tag. Try this recipe for a nog you can be proud…

January 22, 2019 (Last Updated: September 27, 2019)