Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider

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A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.

Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.

Some starting points for beginners:

Introduction to Beer Brewing

A basic mead primer

Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine

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Should you SALT your MEAD, WINE, CIDER and BEER? - City Steading Brews (www.youtube.com)

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TLDW: Their mandarin orange wine was a bit too bitter. Testing, unscientifically, if they can tell a difference. They can. They think it lowers the bitterness.

Interesting. I'm mainly a beer brewer (only my first cider recently) so I've not had a brew that's "too bitter", as with beer you WANT them to be bitter, usually. I've heard to add a pinch of salt to a pot of coffee.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always remember about thing my dad said when I asked him about water chemistry:

"You know, almost anywhere is water good for brewing beer. But in Pilsen it is too hard so they have to treat it."

They have too much iron in it so they have steps on which the water flows, oxygenate and it gets out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, I was always under the impression true pilsner only comes from Pilsen because that's the place that had the best water for it. Today I learned...