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It is a meade hybrid

Plums palisade peaches honey and raw sugat cane nothing more. Dry and sweet

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You make this? That sounds really cool.

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yup every year sir

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Fuck yeah my man. Mind sharing your fermentation set up?

I moved to a big yard (just under .5 acre) last year and I'll be planting some fruit trees this year. I figure I might as well start learning and getting equipment in the interim years before they start heavy producing.

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Mmm jenkum

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OMG I can't believe they turned Jarate into a real thing

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I was thinking of a Howard Hughes joke, but this is better.

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no thanks partner, thats some nasty shit and i perfer perfecting a many craft and being nasty is not one

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I'm making some mead at the moment; almost ready to bottle. I like when it's not too dry, with the taste of honey still present. I also made some apple jack last year but that's way too strong; I may try to mix both and see what comes out of it.

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what type of meade currently? apple jack somes tastey never seen it befer or made it. what did the alcohol content come out too? ive never tested my wine but it is quite potent i would say. i fancy my wine to be perfect for champange or converting to brandy.

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The mead is just some honey I bought at the store, water and bread yeast. The apple jack was made with apple juice from the store, some sugar to make it more alcoholic and some yeast. I then froze it and removed as much water as possible. It taste a bit like sherry and is really dry, but way too strong for me. How to jack up the alcohol content with fractional distillation (youtu.be) I don't know about the alcohol content because I always forget to take a measurement before fermentation and I don't know if it is possible to calculate without that.

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that fractional distill would net you a very strong brandy btw i bet 70% alcohol of hotter

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you can shake the jar and count how long it takes for the bubbles to dis appear. at 70% pure it forms a bridge when shaken the jar sideways. in general thats about 1.5 maybe 2 seonds. from there you could do math to deduce the amount of heat your wine kicks. store bought juice is highly modified juice and considered jailhouse alcohol. you cant learn with out experimenting right.

a few suggestions only make wine when a fruit is pickable. find a spot that holds a 68-70 degree temps fermentation is best when slowed down. fast production produces higher amounts then slower processes. slow processes produce better product imho. need nothing fancy but a good starting point for you to try would be

rinse 5 gal bucket out with dish soap and warm water fill 5 gal bucket halfway with hot spicket water and salt slosh it around for about 10 mins rinse with warm water now its sterile and ready to use

fill bucket 2/3rds way with fruit thats lightly mashed.(fruit with big seeds pluck them out but berries and such leave it) bring 2 gallons of water to 160 degrees and mix in your honey or raw cane sugar not processed bleached sugar if using honey then 2 galls of honey

let it cool to about 90-100 degrees and pour yeast into bucket lightly stir and close lid place in good location and check every 7 days to burp co2 you will clearly know when its slowing down then you check daily

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May i suggest you check out and join my sub poal brewers? Made some apple wine back in november that ive opened the first bottle and its not bad. Been brewin wine and mead for a few years now. Still bottle agining the apple wine for the rest of it.

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i can surely stop by and check it out

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Not much traffic but id like to change that soon. Thinking of starting a new batch of strawberry wine or blueberry in a few months.

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how muich do you make when you do a batch. i have to buy store bought strawberries here they dont have no farms here. back home i had access to alot of fruits. hope to adventure into MT this year and harvest huckleberries to made 10 gals of that.

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