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I have always prefered a sweet mead but if you have a dry mead I would think that the hot butterrum mix would mellow it out alot. I am going to be making a batch of Melomel and try it spiced up and see how it tastes

if you really like a mead you will like it even better spiced, me personally I like it with the pumkin pie spice or during the winter I will warm the mead up and mix it with buttered rum mix its better then a hot tottie when its cold

if you just want to make 1 gallon at a time go down to your local Sherwin-Williams store I just bought a 1 gallon bucket and lid and fine nylon mesh bag for under $5 both bucket and lid are #2 food safe plastic

I dont know how closely you followed the recipe but next time instead of putting the whole orange peel into the bottle take a cheese grader and scrape off the zest of the outside of the orange and put it into the primary since this is where all the orange oil is anyways to add taste to the mead...

http://storesense1.carrierzone.com/HS8072/Detail.bok?no=752 here is the bottle I am talking about

Tom when I say we use to have to do something I am talking more then 25 years ago my first batch of wine was 30 years ago. I walked into a brew shop the other day and was amazed at everything that the store had and I thnk of all the things we use to make to get what is in the store now. The...

Tom I take it you have not been making wine for very long There was once a time a 1/2 gallon jug was used to share starters when there was very little choice for yeast or the ability to get a good yeast It use to be that if you had a yeast that worked good with a peach wine and you had a...

A&W is selling a glass 1/2 gallon for $7.99 these would make a great small test batch or overflow carboy these are sold empty and sterile personaly I would like to see them come back with the gallon jug there was a time when you werent using them for wine making you would take the gallon...

on the strawberry wine I have found its 1/2 gallon of water, 2 lbs sugar with 3 1/2 lbs of berries is really close to a gallon of wine so 2 1/2 gal water 10 lbs sugar 17 1/2 lbs berries 5 tsp acid blend 1 1/4 tsp tannin 2 1/2 tsp pectic enzyme 5 tsp nutrient 5 crushed campden...

but wouldnt that make it a wine cooler

why dont you find an area that you can pick wild fruit there has to plenty of blue berries and blackberries ect.... Here in OKlahoma I picked over $130 worth of black berries to make my wine and grew strawberries to start my first gallon of strawberry wine in over 30 years

I am looking for someone that is good with wild grape indentification I have three different wild grapes growing in the pasture but I can't find a name for one it is growing on a plant that is about 40" tall on top of the plant, there are umbrella looking clusters with fruit that is about 1/8...

Use a denture cleaner to clean and sterilize and remove stains you have a new carboy or an old carboy fill it up with a tap water as hot as it will come out of the tap 1 gallon use 5 tabs 5 gallon use 18 tabs and let water sit in the carboy for about 2 hours and then pour water into a 5 gallon...

You know there was a time that what you describe as an airlock is all we had and remember CO2 is heavier then air and as it is expailed from your primary threw the hose to the jar as the gas excapes the hose the CO2 will sit on top of the water and keep it from spoiling and remember what you...

to answer your question why did I pull the berries and crush them besides being fun I have used the blackberry wine making as a way to help me quit smoking the picking of the berries somedays 1lbs at a time kept my mind on other things then a cigarette. I ended up picking over 35 lbs of...

I just started a batch of wild Blackberry wine in a 5 gallon primary on Sunday 07-05-09 on the first stirring 24 hrs after yeast was added it smells like a burgandy is this a normal smell? this is my first batch using blackberries. Berries were picked then frozen until enough could be collected...