This recipe is for 10L of non alcoholic ginger beer using a ginger bug. Recipe 10L water 1L table sugar 1dl grated ginger 6 lemons 3 limes Grate the skin of 3 lemons and 3 limes Press the juice out of the lemons and limes and set aside Mix sugar, grated giner and grated skin into the water Bring the tea to a boil and turn of the heat and let the tea steep for an hour [Read More]

Gingerbug is a probiotic starter culture for making homemade soda, ginger beer etc. A gingerbug is very simple to create and it will take approximate 4-6 days to get one ready for use. Then it is added to a soda tea and bottled to build up a nice fizzy soda. This receipe is will give you about 1L of gingerbug and it is good for a 10 to 15L final product. [Read More]

Kombucha is a non alcoholic fermented beverage which is produced using a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY) and sweetened black tea. You can do batches of Kombucha or setup a continuous brewing, this blog will describe the process of continuous brewing. First you need to get hold on a SCOBY, you can either buy one online or grow one by your self. To grow one your self you need to get hold on a unpasteurized Kombucha drink. [Read More]

I got interested to brew a hard cider to this midsummer. I found that someone had success to brew a cider on a specific store bought apple cider (Bravo äppel juice) available here in Sweden. So this is my go at that. The docket on the juice package told me that there are 9.5g sugar per 100ml. This means 95g per liter and that would give me a cider with approximated ABV of 5. [Read More]

I found that one could make a sugar wash (sugar wine) as a base for wine cooler. This is raw sugar, water, nutrients and yeast. I calculated that i needed 250g sugar per liter water to reach a ABV 14.7% which seems to be a good target for a wine cooler base. My idea is to ferment all sugars and kill the yeast in the sugar wash, then use a essences for soda streamer and the soda streamer to carbonate a alcoholic beverage. [Read More]

Heres my recipe for a Pineapple and Coconut mead. I will base this on PGW show mead recipe but increasing the amount of honey to 3 x 650g for a sweet mead. 5dl + 3dl coconut flakes 1 pineapple, about 1 litre of pineapple cubes 1.95 Kg wild flower honey 2.5g Lavlin D47 yeast 6g Fermaid-K nutrients Receipe Santize all of your equipment Chop up the pineapple into 1 cm cubes [Read More]

I wanted to create a medium sweet melomel with blueberry and raspberry. I started out with PGW show mead receipe and changed it to the following. 250g frozen blueberries 250g frozen raspberries 1.5kg honey 2.5g Lavlin D47 Receipe Santize all of your equipment Put the frozen fruits into a bowl in a hot warm water bath Heat up water 2 litre of water to 30° celcius and stir up the honey into a must, then pour the fruits and juice into the cattle and stir for a while. [Read More]

I’m interested in doing a melomel which is a mead with fruits. I found a recipe that I found interesting tasteful which is named JAO mead. I changed the yeast in the receipe to a white wine yeast Lavlin D47 which I have on the shelf. This recipe is for one gallon mead. 1.5 Kg honey 1 large orange 25 raisins 1 cinnamon stick 1 or two cloves 2. [Read More]

I bought a mead start kit from PGW which included everything to start to create mead, all the equipments and the sanitizer, yeast and nutrient. This start kit is for creating 4 litres (1 gallon) show mead which is mead in its purest form, honey, water and yeast. The kit also includes a brewing instruction which I will describe below. This post will also be updated with a brew log as a reference for future brewing. [Read More]