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Hey ya'll, haven't been on here in a while. I started two 5 gal batches of mead just shy of a year ago (6-19-21). I had fermented them to about 7%ish ABV, cold crashed, racked and stabilized, then I let them age. Today I went to pull them out to back sweeten and found to my dismay what I fear...

Hey guys, So I ordered a 4 pack of 10 different flavors from Groennfell & Havoc, the very first can I opened (Valkyrie's Choice) smelled and tasted like bile.. straight up vomit 🤢 The other 3 flavors I have tried since have all been fine. I expect anything commercial to not be as good as home...

Hey guys, I've been on HBT for a number of years, but so far I've only made mead. I've been looking to branch out into beer and have just acquired a free Brewers Edge Mash and Boil (model with pump) along with a keg, CO2 tank, regulator and lines for free! (Will also be building my own keezer)...

Hey ya'll, So I'm getting ready to start my first build (I have yet to buy anything) and planning how I want my set up. I'm going with a tower, I am curious if you guys think I can fit three 5 gallon kegs plus the Co2 tank in a 5cu. Ft. freezer? Looking through other photo's posted on here, it...

Not sure if this has been asked before, I'm curious about turning one of my recipes into a carbonated version. Per my recipe, once fermentation is done around 12% (I'm going to try to cut that back to 6-8%), I stabilize and backsweeten with honey. So how would you go about about this? If I...

Hey ya'll, been on this form for a few years but only ever been in the mead section. I was looking into getting a kombucha starter kit for my brother and his family, as they all drink it like crazy.. but it occurred to me that with him having younger kids, ABV is rather important. Im curious if...

Has anyone else had issue's with the HBT app? It won't launch, just closes immediately error says "network error: try again later" Tried reinstalling, same problem

Hey y'all, I haven't been on here or made anything since early 2018, life has been busy lol. This last weekend my girlfriend and I started 30 gallons of my crowd favorite mead recipe - a Elderberry concoction adapted from a cold remedy Elderberry Syrup my mother made us as kids. We also started...

Hey ya'll, I've been fermenting my own mead for a bit over a year now. Had some success and some failure. I really want to get into all grain brewing, while I understand that extract brewing is probably easier to start out with I am less interested is that. My big question is this - what all do...

Hey ya'll! Haven't been on for a while, been working like crazy - 70-80+ hours a week plus a 2-3 hour commute home for 3 months - so I haven't had much time. Anyways, I am looking for creative ideas for what to build a stovetop still out of.. I'm thinking somewhere between 4 - 10 gallons...

Hey ya'll, I know this question has probably been asked a thousand times, but I figured I'd duck my head and ask anways.. So I have a cyser that started at 1.116 and is now at 1.010 (13.6%abv), it is still fermenting, though extremely slowly. I like it as is and would rather avoid having to...

Hey ya'll, So about 33 days ago I pitched yeast in my elderberry mead recipie. This was an attempt to exactly replicate the 1 gallon recipie into a 5 gallon batch. The first time around I had a SG of 1.146 and a FG of 0.995. The one gallon first attempt I didnt do hardly anything to help it...

Attempting a new recipie, started last night. It tasted delicious before pitchi g yeast, lets hope it turns out well. If it does I will make a larger batch and age it for this next christmas. What do ya'll think? 1 gallon Motts freshpressed apple juice (unfiltered) 3 1/4 cups Red Clover honey...

Hey ya'll, I was wondering if anyone has ever used that Red Star DADY yeast?? I was scrolling through Amazon's selection of yeast strains and saw it. It said it would hit 22% before slowing down? Also has anyone ever used turbo yeast? I have only seen mention of it once and it wasn't good, so I...

Hey y'all, quick question. My last batches I haven't been too worried about 100% clearing my mead, but as this batch is meant as gifts, I am trying to go all out - getting custom labels, wax sealing and even got a costom disign on a wax seal to press my mark into the wax. So I was looking at...

This might be a stupid question, so please for give my high school drop out knowledge of chemistry... So I started a batch of mead on 1-13-18. My recipie produced 5.5 gallons of must, so I filled up my 5 gallon carboy and put the other half gallon in a 1 gallon carboy (I know, too much...

Hey ya'll, sitting on the ferry heading to work, thought I'd share a little. Saturday I started a 5 gallon batch of my Cinnamon Elderberry mead, let it get going, then, starting monday night planned on stirring/degassing every night for the first week or two. Monday night I gave it a good stir...

Is there a name for someone who makes mead? I.e, brewer for beer or vintner for wine? This may be a stupid question and has probably already been answered on here before, but I couldn't find a definite answer online.

Is there such a thing as legal distilling, and if not, why have a distilling page when forum rules say no talk of said activities...?

Hey y'all, I had made my first attempt at mead with my own recipie, screwed it up, adjusted and tried again. Second attempt at my elderberry mead recipie turned out amazing, everyone loves it and wants me to make more. I used some local Red Clover honey, organic dried elderberries, some other...