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Fermentation just started really going on mine 6/23 (pitched on 6/20). Only made a 1gal batch as I'm still learning my Mead making skills, but its going strong. I used dark cherries for mine.

mine was considerably darker. Should be delicious

glad to see another chicagoan, seems to be quite a bit of us all getting into brewing around here.

yeah its easy to start brewing here in Chicago, its so easily accessible there's no reason not to dapple in brewing, or go all out for that fact. I have even found a group in my home area (although I haven't gotten in contact yet) that has brew meetings and swaps so look in your area for the same.

nice thing about living in Chicago-land area, there's so many shops around me its hard not to buy something new every week. I was planning on doing a mead every two weeks and a beer every other month but I just got so busy this summer..as usual and decided to slow down. I have some friends that...

Is it better to co2 fill the bottle first then transfer? I ask because I was wondering about this as my capsicumel seems to be a bit much to have in 22oz bottles and I want to split it into smaller bottles when needed and re-store it

My tripel ended up a bit nanner'ry. Actually very delicious and filling beer. What else did I expect doing a tripel as beer #1.

Google..how else. Same as most, had a million questions and kept getting directed here anyways so I stayed. Only 995,002 more questions to go.

wedding brew sounds good to me. Good luck with that and have a great wedding.

I just started brewing in November. Already did a 5-gallon tripel and 3 1-gallon batches of mead. I have to say I am a huge fan of making meads over beer but I still want to make me a fine dipa very soon. I will be doing batches 4&5 of my mead tomorrow :ban: . The beer maybe in a week or two...

Orange spice mead and a show mead Mango Habanero Capsicumel This is the first, second and third attempts at making meads.

just bottled this one up last night along with my capsicumel. This cleared up nicely and tastes pretty decent for as young as it is. I did the recipe to the T and worked like a champ. This was my second 1gal sized mead. My wife is really looking forward to this one.

i just bottled up my 3rd batch of 1 gallon size mead, a Mango Habanero mix with orange blossom honey, 2x habanero + 3x mango primary and 3x habanero + 3x mango secondary. A quick taste after the primary wasn't hot enough so I added more in the secondary. The high ABV is masked by the liquid...