Recent content by Scots_Pagan

part-time Graphics Designer, part-time elected politician.

Alas, the Norse weren't well known for their brewing, and honey wasn't used very often as it was too valuable as a sweetener to be used for making alcohol. You do get some references to mead in the Saga's I think, but really the German tribes were more well known for it, and in any case due to...

Just put me one of these on; got a SG of 1.090; added some raisins as well. 4 hours in and already I've got an inch of foam and a bubble every 9.1 seconds, so it's definitely going to be alcohol. Pretty miffed about the smell though; I used the cheapest honey I could lay my hands on and it has...

Well I just got me 3 pounds in ASDA of their cheapest ****test honey. I'll admit, after reading all the threads, I'm still going to try using a generic wine-yeast. I'm after a higher ABV than the 10% stuff that bread yeast will crap out at, and I'm thinking I can just back-sweeten to mellow...

Maybe he drank some and died..

Given the level of detail Bethesda put into Skyrim, asking them wouldn't actually be a bad idea. The blacksmithing setup, for instance, is based on a real-world smithy; they visited various heritage places to get it right; I fail to see why they wouldn't have done the same for the Meadery; more...

In fairness, that's the recipe for ALL mead though... Given the acidity, I was thinking it could be done with a JAOM-style recipe, or maybe the MAOM variant... I'd love to know though (since I've not tried either), is do they actually have a perceivable orange taste to them? Or are the oranges...

Moniack is definitely the best mead I've ever tried. And it's made right here in Scotland :) Getting it is hard even here though...2 months I've been trying to get some from my usual supplier in Glasgow, and they've had problems apparently. I'm about the start a mead in the next few days, will...

Wow. Been trying to get into home-brewing for a while, and Make featuring your (outstanding) work led me! Just joined, hope to be on the home-brew train by Xmas. Outstanding work there sir! All that copper gives me…well, let's just say it's very pretty and we'll leave it at that, shall we...