Brewing
Home brewing recipes, techniques, and fermentation experiments with beer, wine, and mead.
Mead Water Chemistry
A comprehensive guide to water chemistry for mead makers — from ion fundamentals to building custom water profiles for different mead styles.
Intro to Making Mead
A complete beginner's guide to making mead at home, from equipment and ingredients through fermentation, back-sweetening, pasteurization, and bottling.
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Bottling Day: The Final Stretch
From siphon setups to pasteurization and the danger of bottle bombs, here is my guide to successfully bottling a 1-gallon batch.
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The Tilt Hydrometer promises 24/7 gravity and temperature readings straight from your fermenter. I wanted to love it, and in some ways I do—but a few...
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My Home Brewing Journey: From Mead to Beer on Tap
How I started home brewing in 2022 with a 1-gallon mead kit and ended up with a full keezer setup in my kitchen thanks to a chance encounter at a...
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Cherry Mead
A sweet cherry mead made with Maker's Mark Premium Wildflower Honey, whole frozen cherries, and Red Star Premier Blanc yeast. Primary fermentation...
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Blackberry Mead
A deep purple blackberry mead started without an original gravity reading, fermented to dryness, then sweetened back and bottle-pasteurized. Lessons...
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Dandelion Mead
A bright, floral mead made with foraged dandelion flowers and Ambrosia honey. The dandelion tea brings a subtle herbal quality that pairs beautifully...
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Strawberry Wine
A fresh strawberry wine made with pureed strawberries and a unique Camden tablet treatment to eliminate wild yeast before fermentation.
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PLAATO Airlock Review
The PLAATO Airlock promised smart fermentation tracking through a sleek bubbler. For a few months it worked. Then the company abandoned homebrewers,...