09-28-2022, 02:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2022, 02:53 PM by Michigan Swamp Buck.
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OK, I tried some of the wine and beer Sunday. I tired 2 1/2 oz of each.
The wine was sweet at first, then dry, and then had an aftertaste that wasn't very good. I believe it is related to the bramble berries, or from the seeds of all the berries. Still, it wasn't that bad and with some aging I believe that will calm down. But the alcohol was off the charts, it was like drinking a shot, I felt it for sure.
Then the beer, two weeks fermenting to the day. I thought it would be real nasty, so I had a Bud light on hand to wash it down. It is that light yellow amber color you'd expect of a beer, but so much particulates that it was milky and opaque. It smelled really good and although flat (as it hasn't been bottled yet) it tasted like a good IPA, but the hops were over the top IMO. Next time, I'm going with 8-10 oz hops with most of that in the bitter phase of brewing. It was real strong on the hops so I added some of the bud light to water it down, and that shitty canned beer flavor destroyed it. Even though it was room temperature, flat and too strong on the hops, it had this flavor of live fresh brewed beer I never experienced before, it wasn't really bad at all.
So I put 8 oz of the beer in an open mason jar in the fridge for two days. Then yesterday, I thought I'd try it cold, and other than being flat, it was great! I sat there and smoked cigarettes made from homegrown tobacco, puffed on a corncob pipe filled with homegrown cannabis and drank a home brewed beer with it. It was alright, I will do fine when shit hits the fan, warmed by my wood stove and some moonshine from the still. Once I smooth out some of the problems and fine tune my methods, I'm going to do very well.
The wine was sweet at first, then dry, and then had an aftertaste that wasn't very good. I believe it is related to the bramble berries, or from the seeds of all the berries. Still, it wasn't that bad and with some aging I believe that will calm down. But the alcohol was off the charts, it was like drinking a shot, I felt it for sure.
Then the beer, two weeks fermenting to the day. I thought it would be real nasty, so I had a Bud light on hand to wash it down. It is that light yellow amber color you'd expect of a beer, but so much particulates that it was milky and opaque. It smelled really good and although flat (as it hasn't been bottled yet) it tasted like a good IPA, but the hops were over the top IMO. Next time, I'm going with 8-10 oz hops with most of that in the bitter phase of brewing. It was real strong on the hops so I added some of the bud light to water it down, and that shitty canned beer flavor destroyed it. Even though it was room temperature, flat and too strong on the hops, it had this flavor of live fresh brewed beer I never experienced before, it wasn't really bad at all.
So I put 8 oz of the beer in an open mason jar in the fridge for two days. Then yesterday, I thought I'd try it cold, and other than being flat, it was great! I sat there and smoked cigarettes made from homegrown tobacco, puffed on a corncob pipe filled with homegrown cannabis and drank a home brewed beer with it. It was alright, I will do fine when shit hits the fan, warmed by my wood stove and some moonshine from the still. Once I smooth out some of the problems and fine tune my methods, I'm going to do very well.