/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6157031
yes

get a still

your cheap mash is going to very likely taste terrible due to your lack of experience. Prepare to salvage the alcohol into a cheap spirit using an inexpensive pot still. I highly recommend it.

>>6157031
5 gallons of Irish Red in primary for two more weeks
2 gal Cascade Pale Ale in primary for 3 weeks
2 gal Amarillo ipa in for another 3.5 weeks

Hopefully all will turn out well

my Ethiopian roommate from my freshman year was making tej when I stopped by his house

http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/10/tej-ethiopian-honey-beer-recipe/

It ended up being pretty tasty.

kegged an anchor steam clone this morning. Fermenting a sierra nevada celebration clone

>>6157061
Interesting. Have you had it less sweet? If so, is the sourness pleasant, or is it a biting vinegar kind of sour, so sort of a sweet/sour with more honey?

>>6157100

it tasted tart, sort of like sweet and sour sauce.

>>6157182
Ah, thanks. Was hoping it might be an easy/quick way to get a cheap but pleasantly acidic homebrew that's relative complex in flavor and not high in sugar. Still sounds interesting.

>>6157055
>Pixely picture

>>6157055
3.5 weeks in primary? why would you do this?

>>6157192

do it anyways, it was fairly complex and very tasty.

>>6157197
It's from Dark Forces from 1995, I took a sc and use it sometimes on here

>>6157223
I should have said 3.5 weeks more to sit. No racking to secondary, I'm just going to rack to a bottling bucket and bottle.

>>6157031
I've got a lychee honey mead fermenting, and a barleywine with pomegranate fermenting.

Gonna be solid drinks in about 6 months.

6.5 gallons skeeter pee
5.5 gallons of liquid apple pie
1 gallon apfelwein
1 gallon mead, which im racking onto grilled/smoked pinapple cut into chunks (will rack mead in 2 months prob)

>>6157031
>Im looking in to making my own mead for DnD and weekly game night meet ups any tips
Use an exact recipe. Also make a melomel (fruit mead) or something with additional flavor. Like Joe's Ancient Orange Mead. It is hard to make a straight honey/water/yeast mead (show mead) that comes out good, since it's so easy to get off-flavors. A flavored mead is more forgiving.

>>6157223
That's about how long I leave anything in the primary, too. For the sake of clarity and conditioning, unless I need to use a secondary.

>>6158081
i was gonna get some concentrated lemonade and orange juice in the can for a fruity taste

>>6157061
looks good man

I've got 6 gallons of cider going on my back room.

6-7 weeks of primary using wild yeast got us a real nice bret cloud, tastes like a farm house cider to be sure. Then we dumped a dreg of a sour we had drank and thats going on now, should be done with the secondary by may or june. Then we rack and drink.

>>6157031
I have a gallon of strawberry wine that is in seconcdary until April. I also have two gallons of cranberry mead and a gallon of chai spice mead that will be ready to bottle in spring and will be consumed around Thanksgiving.
Mead is such a time investment, I hope if turns out (first try).

>>6158081
>A flavored mead is more forgiving.

sure if you let it sit 9-24 months