Month: november 2015

2015 batch 1: Cyser – Juicing apples

3. november 2015
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This year i will again make a cyser. I will only make one batch of mead but this time I will scale up by a factor of about 2 As this has been a terrible year with really poor weather. I have only harvested 23 kg of honey from my one hive, which is about half of what I harvested last year. I had planned for at pure honey mead, but I also want some honey for my self and some to sell (this is what pays for the bees). So I have only been able to put about 15 kg aside – not enough for a 50 L batch […]

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Shopping for a conical fermenter

2. november 2015
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I have for a long time been looking at a conical fermentor as this would be an alternative to racking the mead again and again. I have been looking at several brands. Basically, I do not trust that the Chinese fermenters are food grade stainless steel, even though they are specified as such, so these was fairly fast out of the equation. I was also looking at Blichmann’s but these are really expensive. They might be great but right now I am not sure if this is the way to go for me. Over the last year I fell head over heals for the fermentor from Ss Brewtech, but these […]

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Death in the family

2. november 2015
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It has been a while since my last post. My mother was very sick during the spring with pancreas cancer. It is a horrible type of cancer and there is almost nothing you can do to stop or slow it down, and she passed away this June. With funeral, clearing and selling the house and ending all ongoing arrangements in her life and just dealing with the loss, I have not been doing much about brewing of mead, and of cause not posted anything on this blog. Now that some time has passed, and most of all the things I had to deal with have been finalized, things are getting […]

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