I've created a brewing album in my photo gallery, and uploaded photos from the two batches coreblue and I started two weekends ago, and the all-grain brew he started today.


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Two weeks ago (Oct 29th, for the record) I started another batch of mead. This is my second batch since I've lived in Austin.

I used the same ingredients and procedure as the first batch, with a few variations. For starters, we had warmed up the yeast for use on Friday night rather than Sunday night, so I made a starter with two cups water and ( Read more... )

Last night I bottled a batch of mead with help from coreblue and harlequinmayhem. We bottled it into 27 x 22oz bottles, with a #8 tapered cork in each. I read the gravity at 1.014 at approximately 70F, making it around 13% alcohol. I still need to make some labels, and I'll officially name this batch then.

Later last night lauraleanalle joined us and we all had a glass. It could ( Read more... )

I moved my batch of mead into the secondary fermenter this afternoon and measured the gravity at 1.025. I don't have the recipe handy and I don't remember what the ending gravity should be ( Read more... )

I started another batch of mead this afternoon, thanks to the support and encouragement of coreblue. It's been over eight years since my last one, which we drank the last bottle of last weekend.

Homebrewers typically keep a log; I'm using LiveJournal for mine..

Austin Homebrew Supply Sweet Traditional Mead

Ingredients

• 15 pounds wildflower honey
  
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