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Online RedOneFive

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Home brew!
« 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

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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2025, 11:27:46 AM »
you got me drooling here!
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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2025, 05:56:20 PM »
Yum!!!  :bl th up :bl th up

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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2025, 04:46:14 AM »
Never heard of this mead stuff. Could you tell me what it is.


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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2025, 05:50:13 AM »
Mead = essentially fermented honey, the "wine" or "beer" of the middle ages.

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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #6 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


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Re: Home brew!
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2025, 09:46:24 AM »
Impressive, looks awesome.
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