Mmmm.

[kiya]

So I bottled off some of the cyser (as per a previous entry, as I may be giving some away tomorrow). And as I finished off the bottle, I spilt a little on the webbing of my hand, and sucked it off, because, well, that's what one does.

Good stuff.

So I drew off a glassful for Kevin and me to split.

He's surprised at how good it is. Hell, so am I.

It's mellowed enough that it tastes like a mead, too. A couple weeks ago it was sharp and tasted like a straight cider.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(envy)

all of my home-brewing has been beer... although I have a keg of 5-year-old barleywine still in storage, most of it is gone.

Cheers!

[kiya]

I've got a cheap, cheat recipe for a metheglyn done -- it's nice stuff, but it's a bit thin. And this cyser. We'll see how the rose petal wine comes out; that's still a-bubble.

I've only really just started the hobby, but I'm having fun.

And this is good stuff!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

i used to homebrew. i have all the stuff still, and my repcipe books, but haven't gotten off my butt to do it again for a good while now.

the first time i ever had beer, and liked it,. was at a friend's house in Somerville. homebrew. i fell in love.

i seduced my husband with a mead i made.

perhaps after i get to boston it will be time to start brewing again. mmmm....

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

Sounds like some tasty stuff.

I may have to talk to my cousin (who brews beer) when I move up north towards where he is. Is there anything resembling a recipie for this, or is it just a thingy? I know next to nothing about brewing, but what I do know makes me more curious.

[kiya]

The cyser recipe I used is a slight modification of the Dangerous Cyser recipe posted on The Bee's Lees; I used wine yeast, not ale yeast, I couldn't get wildflower honey so I subbed mesquite honey, and I don't have a barrel. Also, I changed the amounts for a five-gallon recipe rather than a seven-ish one, because my big jars only hold five.

I may start experimenting sometime soon.

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

Tankoo!

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