Tag Archives: brewing

Kombucha

I talked to someone yesterday who's been brewing Kombucha. I'd heard of it but never tasted any, so I picked up a bottle at the grocery store last night. I just had some, and enjoyed it. It's a pleasantly sour taste. The bottle I bought is a bit sweeter than I would aim for if [...]
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Mulled Cider

This is simple enough to be more of a procedure than a recipe, but since I've seen people spend a lot more time and money for less good results, I'm going to tell you about it anyway. I do this pretty much any time in the winter that I'm having people over. You have to [...]
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Group brewing

Yesterday's was another time-delay post; I was in West Roxbury brewing a imperial oatmeal stout. My homebrew club has discovered the joys of using a 60 gallon liquor barrel as a fermentation vessel, but of course, homebrewers don't have the equipment to brew 60 gallons at a time. But the club has several dozen people [...]
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Plans for the month

I have the major pieces of what I've been meaning to do on the websites done, although I'd still like to have better searching for pieces on SerpentPublications.org and better graphic design both places. But the big thing that happens in the near future is a lot of more "formal" entertaining than I do the [...]
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Carboy pictures

I thought I should have taken pictures to illustrate the cyser making post a couple of days ago, so here they are. This is the cyser carboy, while I'm adding the extra honey. This is two days after adding honey, and probably 5 days after the cider was pressed. This is the one-ingredient cider 5 [...]
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Cyser making

I don't seem to have blogged about making cyser since 2006, but I do still do it every year. Last year I experimented and made three beverages from the cider I bought at the ciderfest and fermented them all on the wild yeasts from the Carlson Orchards apples. It was reasonably successful, although none of [...]
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