Classic Sekanjiban
April 29, 2016
I thought everyone knew how to make this one, but it seems like people want the recipe I use, so I’m obliging. 2 cups sugar 1¼ cups water ½ cup red wine vinegar 4 to 7 sprigs of mint Put the sugar in a medium pot, and add the water. Stir so its not […]
Clovingly Sweet
November 2, 2015
Who says you have to use cloves sparingly. New year, new mead, and Tarou and I decided to do separate batches. For Tarou’s new mead of the new year, he decided to go with Desert Honey and cloves, with the ratios based on his previous Sweet Mead. 17 gm bottle of Whole Cloves 4.5 lbs […]
Strawberry Blonde
November 2, 2015
In fine tradition, new mead for a new year. This year Tarou and I decided to do separate batches, based on the recipe for his Sweet Mead. I decided to use raw honey and strawberries. 2 lbs frozen strawberries 6 lbs Aunt Sue’s Raw Wild Natural Honey 14.5 cups hot water 1/2 tsp Red Star […]
Tarou’s Sweet Mead
November 2, 2015
Another year, another mead. After the first mead was good but dry, this time Tarou decided to try for sweeter. Out of my own curiousity, instead of clover honey this time I got orange blossom honey mostly because I personally like the flavor better. 5 lbs orange blossom honey 1/2 tsp Red Star yeast 12 […]
Aki Ume and Ume Cider – All the Ume!
November 2, 2015
So once upon a time, I had this idea of making plum wine. So I looked up how you make plum wine, and found out that it was sadly pretty boring. Umeshu is its proper name, and it isn’t wine at all, but fruit in distilled liquor. So if one had access to ume, one […]
New Bottles
November 2, 2015
While the blue bottles are awesome, we discovered they are really best for sake and other large quantity things. For stuff like cordials or liqueurs or even mead, if we don’t make a whole lot, one full blue bottle is a lot! So we found these awesome screw lid oil bottles, and, being that I […]
Fall Cider
August 20, 2014
By the time I decided I wanted to take something to Yule, it was too later to start sake. After some looking at various things, I learned cider wasn’t hard to do and only took a short time. With that in mind, I attempted an apple cider with a cinnamon and clove taste. 1 tsp […]
Hatsuyuki – The First Sake
August 20, 2014
Hatsuyuki is japanese for the first snow of the season. This eventually became the name for my first batch of sake, as traditionally sake is made in the winter. So of course I was making it in the summer in the desert. I had bought a book from amazon, read a couple brewing forums, and […]
Dragonblossom Brewery
August 20, 2014
So at Highland War of 2012 I took a class on the history of sake, and learned that actually, making sake isn’t too hard. Between that, and an attempt of Rennfield’s to restart/make more active the baronial Brewer’s Guild, Tarou and I decided we’d try our hand at making stuff. Being the overly attracted to […]