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Hopslam will be here in a week or two, but while at the beer store I ran into a bomber of this. I had it at World of Beer a couple of years ago, and remember it being very nice. It is actually much tastier than I remembered.
 

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Thegreenchilemonster said:
Hopslam will be here in a week or two, but while at the beer store I ran into a bomber of this. I had it at World of Beer a couple of years ago, and remember it being very nice. It is actually much tastier than I remembered.
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1) We have one of those dogs =)
2) I couldn't find your mead thread when I looked real fast, but I ordered some honey this morning ...
 
Thegreenchilemonster said:
Nice! What kind of honey, and how many lbs/gallons? I've been posting on the GIPs adventures in cooking with mead and Rocketmans Mead recipe thread, which I intend on adding a couple of recipes to very soon.
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a gallon (12 lbs, i think) of tangerine blossom from a local producer ... should arrive next week ...
 
Thegreenchilemonster said:
That should do nicely for a dry 5-6 gallon batch, or a sack 3 gallon batch, depending on what kind of yeast you use. I've never made mead with tangerine blossom, I bet it's pretty good.
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I have 4x little big mouth bubblers dying to see some action, so I figured I'd made 3x or 4x from it ...
 
I plan to do that research this weekend, just added some Kindle books last night, but haven't looked yet ...
 
The initial aeration is key, do you have any yeast nutrients or energizer? What yeast are you going to use?

If you used the 4 LBMs with Lalvin 71B-1122, you would end up with a nice semi sweet mead. I have some extra packets if you don't have any, I'll gladly send some your way. If you want a drier, but stronger mead you could use the EC-1118, or Wyeast 4632. I have some extra EC-1118 as well that I could part with, if you need.
 
Thegreenchilemonster said:
The initial aeration is key, do you have any yeast nutrients or energizer? What yeast are you going to use?

If you used the 4 LBMs with Lalvin 71B-1122, you would end up with a nice semi sweet mead. I have some extra packets if you don't have any, I'll gladly send some your way. If you want a drier, but stronger mead you could use the EC-1118, or Wyeast 4632. I have some extra EC-1118 as well that I could part with, if you need.
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I think I'm in good shape ... I have 10x packets of EC-1118, yeast nutrient from wyeast and white labs (servomyces), fermaid-k, and pure O2 on-hand ... and some red star champagne yeast, Danstar CBC-1, and WLP099 in a pinch ...
 
Yes, it's good, and doesn't destroy the aroma of the honey too bad, but I would recommend doing three 1 gallon batches with 12 lbs. of honey and the EC-1118, if you want to taste the honey too, and have some residual sweetness.
 
Thegreenchilemonster said:
Yes, it's good, and doesn't destroy the aroma of the honey too bad, but I would recommend doing three 1 gallon batches with 12 lbs. of honey and the EC-1118, if you want to taste the honey too, and have some residual sweetness.
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Sounds like a plan ...
 
grantmichaels said:
Enjoying tctenten's craftwork on Bumper's recipe! Good job!
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Tasty beer, wildly hoppy- to pretty good affect, nice mouthfeel - cream ale-ish, with a singular detraction - a lot yeast in the glass!
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It's good tasting, hoppy beer - that *I'd* prefer in a glass served from a keg =)
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Thanks. Let the other one sit for awhile. Will help with the floaties.
 
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