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Other Fermented Beverages
Not necessarily beer, our other fermented beverages are fun to make! These include mead, cider, kombucha, sake, and more.
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Brewing Hydromel Meads
Not all mead has to be over 12% ABV. Hydromels are more similar to your average beer strength, making them a great mead to have around. They
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Blueberry Lemon Hydromel
This recipe is from Danny Stahl, a member of the Maltose Falcons. The resulting mead is approachable and dangerously drinkable.
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Base Hydromel
It really doesn’t get any simpler than this. From start to finish, you can get this mead rolling in 20 minutes, and that includes sanitizi
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Explore the World of Perry
Perry, or pear cider as some refer to it, is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages in the world. Facing extinction for periods through histo
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Two Approaches to Perry
Two perrymakers — one who utilizes culinary pears and another who uses nothing but perry pears — offer advice for homebrewers on craftin
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Modern Sparkling Perry
This recipe makes 1 gallon, but you can scale as needed.
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Draught English-Style Still Dry Perry
The original gravity of the juice is dependent on pear varieties, vintage, and growing conditions. Perrymakers in the U.K. generally ferment
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Fermenting Whey? Yes, Whey!
If you’ve made cheese, then you’ll be left with a considerable amount of whey. Why not use it to start a new fermentation project, such
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From Orchard to Glass
Making stone fruit mead is a fun alternative to beer. Relying on honey and fruit — from cherries, peaches, and plums, to more exotic pitte
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Viking Blood (Cherry Melomel)
This is a cherry melomel named after the seafaring Nordic legends — the Vikings — from where it originated. So, if not for anything, mak
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Peach Melomel
There are many ways of making a stone fruit mead, and they range from using fresh fruit to buying canned fruit, to juicing your fruit or buy
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Gordon Strong’s Braggot
A braggot with an English barleywine base beer with about half the fermentables coming from wildflower honey.