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Good luck, I hope it turns out well!

Yeh, about a teaspoon for a gallon should be fine, if the yeast has been open for a while then a little more.

Assuming you're familiar with the basics and have a demijohn with an airlock: Two (454g) jars of clear honey in a saucepan, add about 500ml of freshly boiled water to make it more pliable. Add this to your demijohn, top up with water (I use cheapo bottled water as my tap water is questionable...

I think I enjoy the learning experience, gradually improving with each subsequent batch and being able to chart my own progress as a brewer. I think I've perhaps followed a recipe twice, ever, just going by trial and error has been so much more satisfying for me. Finally perfecting a process...

Definitely makes for an interesting mead, I regularly use about a tablespoon of dried tropical fruit per gallon (during fermentation). Works well as a yeast nutrient and imparts some fantastic flavours. Some of the oldest recorded mead recipes were simply honey, water, yeast and a few raisins...

I've been brewing with Kveik Hornindal for a few months, some temp controlled and some not, I'd honestly say it's down to personal preference at the end of the day. My temp controlled beers have been bottled after a week in the fv and have been very clearly finished, the room temp ones I've...

Sparkling redcurrant melomel, made with my home grown redcurrants. Very nice, still a little young as it was only bottled in September, but my first attempt at making it a fizzy one. Weirdly tart and medium-sweet at the same time, kind of makes me think of a slightly more sophisticated alco-pop...

I know it's a cheapo wine, but it's my absolute favourite. Tesco currently has it at £4.39 a bottle. I was gifted a bottle of stupidly expensive (really, eye wateringly, what on earth is going on there, expensive) wine a few years back and it was...nice enough by comparison. This stuff is...

The fourth iteration of my American pale ale, really happy with it as it's pretty consistent and quite tasty indeed. Mainly Chevalier malt with Lorien hops for aroma, earlier versions were a bit too biscuity for my liking to begin with but it's maturing very nicely. Also giving me an excuse to...

Half a dozen of these... But that's a Google image, from days of yore, when it was actually good beer... They dropped the ABV a while ago, now the bottle shape has changed, and it's a gassy, insipid, lot of nothing. Hugely underwhelmed, I'm only choking it down because I need the bottles for...

I've found that's a bit of a pain too, the increments are a bit too much of a gap. I tend to either get a furious boil or only just a boil so have to alternate between the two.

I've only used Hornindal so far, I'm fermenting at a steady 33c which is giving off pineapple in spades and a little grapefruit. My first foray with it just gave a hint of fruitiness but that wasn't temp controlled. I used Cross My Loof general ale for a while and before that their California...

Well, kind of... It's not a real fire, just a fan heater with a fancy fire animation thing. But the Staropramen clone I bottled about six weeks ago is really rather nice, the ham shank is awesome too 😁

They're all getting a little money grabbing aren't they? I subscribe to Amazon prime (mainly for the deliveries but also the video) and Disney+ (pretty much entirely for the Marvel and Star Wars stuff...yeh, I'm a huge geek!) but they're both sending me emails on the regular about upcoming...

Is Atlantic any good? I was gifted a pack as a freebie in my last Cross My Loof order, I've since fallen in love with kveik and pretty much use that for everything (beer wise) now, but I'm leaning towards opening the Atlantic...

Christmas pudding latte would probably be pretty good. I think there's definitely a place for that kinda thing, it starts to get a bit weird with all the 'half caff, no foam, extra shot, mocha choca wakka wakka' nonsense though.

Masochism in a can.

Ah, that wonderful combination, beer and chainsaws 🤣

I thought I was already on there, huh, maybe not. Gosport, PO12 3NT

Raisins definitely work, I've done a few batches just using them but I found that they can impart a slightly odd, almost musty, sweetness to the finished mead. It's all personal preference I suppose, but I tend to use dried mixed fruit from Tesco, it seems to be pretty neutral in terms of...