It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new tutorial, but hopefully it was worth the wait…particularly if you’ve been thinking about making your own mead but have been standing on the edge of that cliff, not quite able to commit. I hope the new mead tutorial throws you [...]

As promised, the hard cider-making tutorial has (finally) been updated to include a Fermentation and Aging section. Head on over for some tips and lessons learned drawn from experiences with the three ciders I made this season (Winesap, Arkansas Black, and a New England-style hard [...]

As a follow-up to the Kegging Tutorial, I’ve added a beer gun tutorial for bottling from a keg using the Blichmann Beer Gun. Now, when you keg your hard cider or mead, you don’t have to forego bottling some of it later on down the road. In addition, you can bottle force-carbonated hard [...]

Hard Cider Tutorial, Part One: Obtaining, Grinding, and Pressing Applesd Yours truly with press, carboys, and Winesap and Rome apples. At long last, it begins… What begins, you ask? The 2013 hard cider-making tutorial I’ve been promising, that’s what! Specifically, I’ll be [...]

  Or: Captain Mycroft and the Keg of Joy Head over to our kegging tutorial to see the basics on kegging your beverage—this works equally well with any beverage you want to keg—sparkling mead, beer, hard cider—all with the same process. I’ve only recently gotten into kegging, but it [...]