Wow, I REALLY need to start doing a better job at keeping this thing up to date, especially since it's become mostly a true "blog" about my brewing.

( So, at Third Sunday LAST MONTH... )

Karen, Deb, Kailo and I went to Christine's to rack and test the Red Mountain brewer batches yesterday. Much fun was had. There was, as usual, plotting and scheming, this time about the Pennsic Pity Party this year and Pennsic 40 next year ( Read more... )

Last Saturday (June 26), while we were brewing the elderberry mead, we also brewed up a batch of krupnick.

( Yeah, yeah, I'm late posting the details... )

Sheesh. I'm finally getting aruond to posting the brewing notes from the workshop on June 26 at Lady Clare's.

This was originally going to be "a very strong (elderflower) meathe" from The Closet of Sir Kenelme Digbie Opened blah blah blah, but I didn't have any elderflowers on hand. Instead, I brought some dried elderberries I've had for a while. ( Read more... )

( Some other quick batch updates from yesterday )

Yesterday at Christofana's, the Red Mountain Brewers made up a batch of what will become elderberry melomel.

( Details behind the cut )

We had a BLAST yesterday bottling our first batch of Isenmead (which is technically a cinnamon/ginger metheglyn). I remember, 18 months ago, we were all thinking oh no! A year is so long! Waiting for mead-bottling day is like waiting for Christmas when you're a kid. It seems to take forever, but it's on you before you know it ( Read more... )

Another batch is in the bottle ( Read more... )

red_mtn_brewers is finally up and running. I back-dated the current entries from my own notes, but LJ does not allow back-dating in communities. Flail.