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It's all a waiting game now, anywhere up to 4 months, any sooner and it'll taste like battery acid :(

The zest holds a lot of the flavours and oils and little sugar, maybe zest 2 limes and drop it into secondary :thumb:

Oh and both readings were taken at around 20% :thumb:

On this forum, "Ian Ball" Traditional beer & cider making or make them up as I feel, jotting down my every move lol

It's a Honey ale, almost a cross over from mead to AG, 1lb honey, 6 oz light dry malt extract, 1 oz crystal malt to a gallon

Come to thin of it your right kev, I stand corrected, just took another little sip and It tastes alot like a lager, and I mean ALOT just flatter lol!!!!

Yeah, It's sitting at 1.000. It's a saxon honey ale, a bit like mead but with less honey and Malt extract and crystal malt. It's a funny little ale but just had a taste. Bitter, sweet and dry lol

Hi guys, yet more advice needed, I've just posted about a long fermentation and got my gravity reading at 1.000, Now that there is minimum Fermentable sugars left in my brew would this make it good for Bottling or should I still wait incase it drops any lower???

Hmmm, My hydrometer readings are at 1.000 now, can it go any lower than that considering it's at the same gravity as water? Gonna be a little cracker of an ale, at 6.6% abv :clap:

Cheers Piddle, I'll keep an eye on it :thumb: :cheers:

Hi, I set away my first AG Saxon Honey Ale on the 4th, 14 days ago, I don't have heat belts or any temp regulation equipment as yet but tried to keep the temperature of the room at around 20 degrees. I'm still getting the odd bubble from the airlock about every 20 seconds or so. Will this be...

Great, Thanks BigYin :cheers:

Thanks Rob, I'm looking forward to getting my first taste of it. 1 more thing though, If I bottle condition it will I still need to use a secondary or can I just prime then bottle? :cheers:

Hi all, I've just set away my first AG brown ale, I got the recipe from "right ways, BEER AND CIDER MAKING". Everything was going to plan right up untill I started measuring my ingredients... The recipe calls for 1 oz of cracked crystal malt and 2.5 black malt "un-cracked"... I then realized my...

Great, I look forward to it :cheers:

Yeah, 1 gallon.... You can try different fruit and spices too.... I made one with Pineapple and cloves mmmmmmm :drink:

I posted it before I got the knack of the forum lol this link should work :cheers: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=27936

The Honey I bought Cost £90 for 20lbs from a lovely little farmers wife in Satley, However, It's not all for Mead some will go into the missus's baking etc. I follow a very similar recipe to motomaniac, 3lb honey for dry, 4lb medium, 5lb sweet I use raisins as the nutrient (around 25 per...

The honey comb will leave a wax film on to of the mead once it cools so it's best avoided, there are two reasons they put it in, One is to show that it is pure unfiltered honey (which is great stuff) and another is to bulk up the weight, you'll get a lot less honey for your hard earned cash if...

Many recipes call for a particular type of honey for mead but to purchase something like "clover" honey from supermarkets is almost impossible because most supermarket honey is a blend of raw honeys from different geographical areas. I would recommend avoiding the budget "value" brands as they...