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Darkhell153

Ah, make sure you let it ferment in the shade, sunlight can greatly distort the taste of alcohol.

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Squallion

This.
Also, totally just logged in on this account for the first time in...years i guess to comment on this. ****ing christ oister, I remember you telling me your setup was ****ing ghetto but i never imagine you would actually be using a freekin' hobo jug and a balloon, fack. Btw, I finally got my master brewer certificate =D haven't talked to you in a while, scrub.

Here's some tips if anyone else wants to try making this:
Jugs like he's using.... yeah no. Go to a local specialty beer store, what that sells DIY kits and shit, and get yourself a beer DIY kit, the one with the large plastic jug(you can go for glass if you want, but it will make no difference mead wise), not bucket. these come with a pressure valve, disinfectants, cleaning kit, stirring spoon (long *** plastic one) and plastic hoses.

Ok, another thing that super misleading about oister's picture, he's using a glass jug, and its full. he's using a balloon, so its safe. with a proper closed jug with a valve, if its to full, the valve wont be able to exhaust, and you risk explosion, which is totally not cool.

Now, bottling.(im gona try to explain this as best as i can, but im french so bear with me) This is something a lot of people overlook when making home mead, but it has huge advantages, aside from aesthetics. If you leave it in the jug, you're not removing the lees (that thick layer of gunk at the bottom....a lot of people who home brew just mix it in and drink it) this will keep making its alcohol content rising, make it more carbonated, and alter the taste with time.
If you take the time to bottle it, using hoses to siphon it out(just like you'd siphon gas out of a car!) and bottle it without the lees, you can let it age a couple months(make sure you remove the lees if your gonna do this though, or else your totally facing risk of explosion again, seriously. I had 2 bottles explode, in a wine rack, while i was away for a week. The floor was disgusting.), you're gonna end up with a pretty amazing product in the end, bubbly like champagne, not to sweet and without that whiskey like alcohol taste cheap ghetto mead has.

Bonus points: since mead recipe is so ridiculously simple, and near impossible to mess up, you can have fun with it, by adding fruits(peach or apple are great), ginger if you want to give it an extra kick. there's a lot you can play with. though, remove the lees if you do this, no one wants a chunk of month old peach that has melted into a half solid into their cup.

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Oisterboy

Yeah the first time my dad ever brewed beer back in the day he bottled too early and that shit exploded all over my PC haha.

I'm just doing this ghetto batch until I'm sure I like it, when I go for the 5 gallon I'll prolly pick up one of those big *** jugs at the homebrew store.

I knew if you were lurking it'd make you log in Haha. Nice to hear from ya mannnnn.

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Squallion

Bahahha. Yeah, ive been working for an MMO doing account/tech support and GM'ing sometime, so i find myself to have way to much free time and tend to come lurk onto here since i don't have much else to do. But yeah, those jugs are totally worth it it. I invested into some barrels before i moved to Vancouver(moving back to Quebec in December) and its been sitting in my friend's basement with a batch of porter aging in it since, really exited to bottle that shit up once i get home. Also gonna try making a thick, creamy coffee stout when i get back (i want to aim at roughly 8-8.5% alc.) this winter also.

Btw, you're legal drinking age now in your silly ''at 18 your old enough to go get yourself shot in the face but not to drink'' country right? You totally need to go pick this up at your specialized liquor store:



Fucccckk'in Trois Pistole from Unibroue, I'll swear by this till the day I die.

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Murxidon

SQQQUAAAAAaaaaaLLLIONNNNNNN

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Squallion

Murx! How gay have you been?

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Oisterboy

I'll keep an eye out for that brew and letcha know how it is if I can find it. Theres only one place I can think of to look, and its a good drive away. I'd have to come up with another excuse to head out that way...ya know, get 2 birds stoned at once.

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Oisterboy

Update - Its clearing up slowly. It'll need one more racking after all the junk settles out. Next time I'll be buying some clearing stuff to make it easier and to lose less mead (I have 2 more of these, I didn't lose THAT much lol)



It tastes pretty damn good as is, but I'm sure it'll only get better as I let it sit.

It tastes better cold...I'm not sure if its supposed to be cold or not.

Edit: I just noticed it looks like it has 3 inches of sediment in the bottom lawl. Its really only about a quarter of an inch. I'm not sure why the picture did that.

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Avarance

Best Unibroue

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Kw1q51lv3r_Vorian

Refraction.

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