If you are looking for something to do near Milwaukee the first weekend in June, come to our beer and mead festival.

We have a couple new meads again this year. Bos out of Madison and Moonlight...

The key to good cider is the apples. You need a good blend of types to get the flavor. Very few apples make good hard cider by themselves. Sugar content is important too. Pick them as late as...

My wife and I had a long talk when we named our oldest son Andrew Kane. Would the kids shorten it to Andy and then make the jump to Candy? We never called him Andy to help keep it from happening. ...

If you like forums, check out gotmead.com. Great place to learn how to make mead and discuss it with others.

That cherry is looking very good! :)

Got 60lbs of honey to get fermenting this...

Just finished my second bottle of Danske Viking Blod this weekend. Yes, 19%. I think it's hibiscus. The Ginger version is GI Danske or something like that. Recently finished a bottle of that too....

The funny part is that there would ever need to be a written "recipe" when the ingredients are in the name.

That is an awesome horn. Mine is simple. I also have a 3 foot tall one for community drinking. :p Not sure if I know how to attach pictures here. We have a long horn for drinking in a "mead...

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Many years ago my wife bought an "authentic" Irish cookbook. It was all Lamb and seaweed. Except the one recipe that makes me laugh to this day. Bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich! Yes, those...

Metheglin is spices or herbs. Melomel has fruit added, with grapes being a special category called Pyment and Cyser is honey and apple juice together. all other fruits get called Melomels. Acer is...

Skip the Bunratty. It's not a good example of mead. Chaucer's is better, but only a little. Both work too hard at mass market and less at bringing out the homey character.

The vanilla cinnamon...

What kind did you find, and who makes it? There are good meads and ok meads. Just like wine, everyone has some they like and others they don't. It can be sweet, or dry. I have about 21 different...

Fruit Leather? Must be a local term. I am gonna guess you mean the same thing eatable undergarments are made of. Of course that would lead to the question of what do you have on under ... :?
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As another homebrewer and BJCP judge, JW Lees is one of my all time favorite wood aged beers. :-) Your homebrew friend likely needs to cut back on the hops a little. ;-)

I always tell people that when you donate money, some of it gets siphoned off for overhead. When you give blood, no one is siphoning any of it for themselves. ;-)

Both of my sons give blood too....

Mead? Not quite wine, but many states call it wine. I have 26 five gallon kegs of home made saved up right now. It's better that wine. Only have a couple of home made wines. Too many good...

Talked to the wife this morning. She says it's Friday or never. She's gotta work this weekend. So, we'll be there right from work since we are both downtown. Try to get out a little early too. ...

I usually go Friday night. Like the pipers, but hate the crowd. I might be somewhere way in back, or at the fringes for a little while, until I feel like my personal space has been used up for the...

Let it settle and rack the beer off the sediment leaving it behind.

The current generation of plastic, like better bottle, are not more porous. They do not allow oxygen to permiate. They are also supposed to be safe from absorbing odors. They do scratch easier. I...

I have 22 different meads fermenting in sizes from 1 to 6 gallons right now. :-) Most are about 4 gallons.

The general rule is 3 lbs of honey per gallon. Or ... a ratio of 1 part honey to 3...

That is kind of the house I grew up in. Except that it was a farm, so Dad was in the house for 3 meals a day, not just dinner.

My wife started out like that, but in the last 15 years she has...

I make this every year. Made about 6 liters this year! Wife asked me last night as I opened a fresh bottle how many were left. I think I have about 2 left from what I made last week.

Irish...

Old 1 gallon glass jugs are perfect ferementers! :)

I use PBW as a cleaner and 1Step as the sanatizer. A lot of people I know like StarSan. It tends to leave a foam residual that affirms it's...

They don't stop it. ...

Depending on the wort given to the yeast, and strain of yeast, what it was propagated on ect. These variables all influence these beers. Yeast nutrient additions help...