Recent content by centerfieldeight

Don't get a Mr Beer they suck. They ate good gifts for someone you want to get into brewing. Get yourself a good 5 or 10 gallon set up. They are not much more than the mr beer kits an you will enjoy your creations a lot more.

I used 15 pounds of honey, yeast nutrient and white labs yeast. My airlock didn't bubble slower after I removed it it bubbled faster. Almost immediately actually. Thanks for your input. I am extremely new at this and don't know what to look for or expect. Maybe I am just being...

Bump for more thoughts

I aerated it pretty well to start and it is five gallons in a 6.5 gallon glass carboy. So there is quite a bit of head space. Should I open it periodically until fermentation stops just to keep it chugging along? Or is it best to just leave?

Update: I actually just checked on it again right now and it is bubbling every half second or so. I would think this is a good thing right but I have read about not removing airlocks during brewing. Thanks again

Hey guys I am really new to home brewing and have a quick and probably dumb question. I am making my first batch of mead right now. I am about three weeks into it right now and I had my airlock full of vodka. I noticed today some sort of bug had found its way into the airlock so I removed the...

Has anyone cone up with a tasty recipe yet?

What if you took SLBrooks recipe and merged it with a hard apple cider recipe but added SLBrooks recipe into secondary fermentation? any ideas if that would work?

Holly cow me too. My co-worker and fellow home brewer was looking at me like I was crazy until I showed him the post. Now he is peeing himself

no kidding I am only 23 years old so to make a mead that is basically is old as I am is unfathomable to me.