Erisian Brewer's Cadre. Or: How I saw the Goddess in the first place

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

We had done a gallon of something called "Joe's Ancient Mead" with raisins, orange, cinnamon and junk and just moved it into the secondary last night.
Smells like friggin gasoline.
It should be better after some bottle aging.

[Triple Zero]

BTW someone said a mead would take very long before it's done. But the recipe I posted on the previous page is really very quick. But a mead is basically just stuff you brew with honey instead of sugar, right? I personally just use honey instead of sugar because I dunno, it matters little and sugar is boring

[Richter]

Exactly, the honey provides the main sugar to ferment.  I've never tried it honey + water + yeast, since every recipe I've ever seen adds spices or fruit flavors.  I suspect it wouldn't be good.

[Reginald Ret]

Did that once but my yeast was dead so I just had sweet water to drink.
I drank it anyway out of principle.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

We did a plain flavored mead with no spices.
It's pretty good actually.


We just bottled our imperial stout. MMmmmmm.
It's gonna be better come december or january. (and then later)
There's a noticeable difference in the bitterness after the dry hopping. Takes most of it out.

[Don Coyote]

(NOTE: Honey in Everclear is NOT quickmead.  It's more akin to the Krupnikas I mentioned about, which is "Kill yo ass" booze)

I don't mean to threadjack in any way but that line was funny as hell!!!!  I am massively intrigued with who would think that and why....

Sorry!

Well, sometimes brews don't go as expected. Sometimes your cider is so bad you HAVE to add whiskey to it to "improve" it.

Oh I completely misunderstood, I thought that someone had mixed honey and Everclear from the get go to make mead.  Sorry!

Nono, you heard right.  They were two seperate incidents.

One was a story of someone passing around honey + everclear as "quickmead".  (Really not mead by many definitions of the term!) 
The other incident was my brewing attempt from last year.  I let 3 gallons of cider go natural, and did 3 gallons with honey, cinamon, and a champagne yeast.  The straight cider was not so good.  Not the best year, so very bitter.  The mead wasn't much better.  A few months of devoted drinking / giving away / throwing away, I still ahd some of each.  It had gotten a bit of weird flavor form sitting in the jugs, with sediment, but had cleared and mellowed nicely otherwise from the bitterness.  I mixed them together.  To mask the weird flavor I added whiskey, and submitted it for the brewing competition at a small local SCA event labelled as "Faelan's Armor Cleaner".  It was pronounced "Surprisingly drinkable!"

I would definitely drink someone called Armor Cleaner.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Squid, I finally opened the first bottle of my Russian Imperial Stout.


I found it smooth and chocolaty, and dangerously drinkable.  It definitely did not taste like it was 12% ABV.

Here is a pic of my Belgian golden strong with strawberries.


Even though it has aged for five months, it still has a very strong strawberry aroma.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

 


I WANT TO HUG IT!

It's beauuuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful

[Kai]

I love this thread.

[Suu]

I want those glasses!

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I want what's IN them!

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I want those glasses!

It's a stemless red wine glass that I got for $3 at Harris Teeter.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

do you remember how much priming sugar you used to carbonate your stout? we used 3/4c for the 5 gallon bucket

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

do you remember how much priming sugar you used to carbonate your stout? we used 3/4c for the 5 gallon bucket

I figure 2g of corn sugar makes roughly 1g of CO2.  I was shooting for 5g CO2 / liter (about 2.5 volumes), and IIRC I had 16 liters to bottle, so that would have taken 160g of corn sugar.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

  damn metrics! all makin sense and shit!

so a cup is about 100 grams if google is correct, which means we should have slightly less... but then you also.. did.. with..

oh my.


head explode.

It should work.