I see your point. However my thought is that after removing 2 bottles worth and adding more honey and water, the alcohol content would lower from where it is at that time. It's at 13.5% now, so let's say it creeps up to 15% after sitting there all year. By replacing some fermented volume with...
My son was born in February and I did this for the occasion. Here's where it's at so far.
Marek Michael Mead
Ingredients
- 10 lbs Missouri Honey
- 1-1/4 lb Organic Barley Malt
- 2 tbs Dried Chamomile
- 1 tbs Ground Coriander Seed
- 1 tbs Ground Turmeric Root
- 1 tbs Ground Dandelion Root
- 1...
My wort chiller was dirty so I'm positive I cooled it. And the bucket I use for sanitizing is full with solution still. I can only hope I mixed it right. I doubt I'd mess that up as I do that fairly often outside of brewing. I think I'll take your advice, both options. Since I have two barrels...
So what do you think? 3 weeks? 2 weeks, then secondary for another 2-3 weeks? I'm completely inexperienced with high O.G. brews. Well, other than drinking them, that is...
So, a buddy was over and we were getting a bit tipsy this weekend. The conversation steered toward brewing my own beer. well, it naturally progressed from there that I walked him through a brew. The problem is I winged it and I have no idea what I've done. Luckily I was wise enough to write down...