That’s one of the things I really enjoy about this as a hobby. You can kinda go crazy and do all sorts of stuff, or you can be incredibly and painstakingly meticulous. This was made forever ago, as well, and they didn’t have all the cool stuff we have now.

I’ve had life interfere with my brewing season this year, so I’m missing out on all my blorp blorping airlocks. But I’ve got s couple of carboys aging.

I might make a braggot in fall, we shall see. I’ve not made one of those before. I usually make a pumpkin spice beer around that time, maybe I’ll faff it into something weird.

This is all good advice! Thank you for contributing! I think I did like 8 one gallon batches, just until I found a recipe I liked, realized it was dumb to do it in 1 gallon, and then scaled it up, and have done 5 gallon batches ever since.

I looked into getting a filter, but backed out due to limited space for storage / setup. I think it was the vino something or other? I don’t remember.

Back sweetening has never been a favorite part. Everybody else said KSorb/Campden, so I just fell in line like a good little duckling.

No worries at all, and no offense taken. The feedback is what makes it better!

I can define stuff better this evening when I fix the list. I just saw the comment asking for something akin to this and figured I’d give it a go.

That’s fair. You don’t have to do that. I know for my first like ten or fifteen brews I didn’t open it once I started primary.

Right? The first one in the jar, and the blurb blurb of the bubbles just spoke to me. Then it was like well this’ll take awhile, I should just start another!

I normally have a batch or two ready to rack about now, but life has had other plans this year.

Sure, I’m around, trying to figure out how subscribing works to this.

The one that always gets asked about is a hibiscus mead! I have fallen behind my usual brewing schedule this year, but there’s always five gallons of this around somewhere in production.

I picked up mead making as my pandemic hobby. Started with one gallon and ballooned from there.