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Title: Home brew!
Post by: RedOneFive on January 13, 2025, 06:13:28 PM

Started a batch of strawberry mead and strawberry wine.. I try to take a bottle of home brew to put on the club's auction blanket every year..  My first go at strawberry so we will see how I do.. I'll get a gallon or 2 of elderberry /currant going before long too.

Momma whipped up a couple batches of strawberry jam and a batch of elderberry/plum jelly..
With that and the sourdough she's been cranking out I should be butchering weight before long!

Ive gotta get back to visit my folks in Missouri this summer to restock on the clear stuff.. That's how I bribe my way into places to hunt lol

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: BEAVERMAN on January 14, 2025, 11:27:46 AM

you got me drooling here!

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: RobD on January 16, 2025, 05:56:20 PM

Yum!!!  :bl th up :bl th up

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: RedOneFive on April 04, 2025, 08:42:45 PM

Bottled it all up today. Tastes and looks pretty good, the wine batch definitely got a little more acidic and dry than I hoped, so I did some back sweeten and hope to save it.. the mead is grade A.

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: No Powder on April 05, 2025, 04:46:14 AM

Never heard of this mead stuff. Could you tell me what it is.

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: RobD on April 05, 2025, 05:50:13 AM

Mead = essentially fermented honey, the "wine" or "beer" of the middle ages.

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: No Powder on April 05, 2025, 09:33:23 AM

Gotcha Rob. I thought it might be a drink, that could cause someone to become 3 sheets to the wind, now I know. :P

Title: Re: Home brew!
Post by: KDubs on April 05, 2025, 09:46:24 AM

Impressive, looks awesome.
 Kevin