Here's some pics of what I've been working on. I haven't got any of the Oktoberfest as I've been too busy drinking it, but the other two I have photos of. :)
Blueberry mead (technically, fruit mead is called a melomel) - honey, yeast, water, orange juice,whole orange slices (with peel) and blueberries. Here's a fresh batch, ready for fermenting - yeast hasn't settled yet.
And this is the mead after only 5 hours of fermenting. I used an ale yeast (because reasons, there are reasons, I promise) and ale yeast is a top-fermenter, so that cake at the top of the container is the yeast and all is as it should be. I love this color!
Blueberry lager on bottling day (you're not supposed to put beer in clear bottles [yes, Corona, I said it] but these were free :P). Gotta love the mix-and-match of used beer bottles in home-brewing.
While the new blog is pretty much all about brewing right now (beer, mead, and the cider and ginger beer I hope to make soon) I do plan to expand my hobby in the future to not only start utilizing wild yeast to create starters for sour beer and sourdough bread, but also get back into pickling/canning and other fermenting/culturing. I think. So far, beer takes up a lot of time. But is a lot of fun!
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Salud!
