Month: oktober 2013

Apples

4. oktober 2013
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To start simple I wanted to make a Cyser, so besides honey I need apples – plenty of apples. I have 3 apple trees in the garden but still it is late in the season, and the majority apples were overripe or down right bad. The appletrees I have are “Inger Marie” which I have no clue to what are called in English, sorry. It is relatively small apples with high acidity and a lot of taste. I could only collect about 20 kg, so I had to supply with Cox Orange from a neighboring garden. Using apples with high acidity I was hoping to be able to avoid having […]

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Mead of life!

4. oktober 2013
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About a year ago I decided that I would try to produce mead. Why mead you might ask? Well, I have always been interested in the process of brewing and I have made several batches of beer. Even though most have been great I always felt that I did not have control of the ingredients. I could purchase what I wanted to use but “just” doing the work of preparing the beer just felt like something was missing. I want to have more control of the ingredients. Throughout the years my attention have been directed toward mead. In the beginning of this year I required my first bee hive for […]

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