This gift guide for fermenters and homebrewers will give you all kinds of ideas for the holiday and Christmas season. Find ideas for fermenting kits and jars, kefir and kombucha starters, brewing supplies, books, and more. You’ll find the perfect holiday gift for the fermenter or home brewer in your life. Fermenting is a huge…
Homebrew Recipes
Looking for homebrew recipes? We've got some great homebrew recipes for beginners including recipes for wine, hard cider, beer, mead and more!
Start with How to Make a Gallon of Mead and then try one of these 15 Easy Beginner Mead Recipes! Part of the fun of brewing homemade mead is enjoying the different flavors of the seasons such as Dandelion Mead in the spring, Wildflower Mead throughout the summer, and Elderberry Mead closer to fall!
Lilac Mead: Floral Honey Wine for Spring
I love the smell of lilacs blooming in the springtime! The beautiful edible blossoms don’t last long, so I like to try to preserve that flavor to enjoy throughout the year. This lilac mead recipe is a delicious way to do that! Simple Mead Making Ebook If you want to learn more about making mead,…
Mulled Hard Cider: Warm Spiced Apple Drink for Fall
Simmered with mulling spices and citrus, this mulled hard cider is a delicious way to celebrate fall! It’s the perfect warm spiced drink for the holiday season, plus it’s so easy to make. Cheers! Warm Spiced Hard Cider for Fall Well, the holidays are upon us, so who wants a drink? Seriously though, there’s really…
How to Bottle One Gallon of Hard Cider (or Mead)
Once you’ve brewed and fermented a one gallon batch of hard cider, mead, or other homebrew, it’s time to bottle it! This is my simple method for how to bottle hard cider or mead. How to Bottle Hard Cider or Mead Before bottling hard cider, you need to brew up a batch! This same method…
How to Make Hard Cider: Homebrew it!
Learn how to brew your own easy and delicious hard cider with this simple recipe! Brewing your own hard cider is easy, affordable, and it tastes amazing. Homemade Hard Cider This, right here, will change your world. No, not in the “this is the best hard cider I’ve ever had, I should sell this stuff…
How to Make a Gallon of Mead: A Simple Mead Recipe
You may have heard of mead before or maybe you haven’t, but one image that always seems to come to mind when mead is mentioned is Vikings drinking their grog. I don’t know a whole lot about Vikings, but I do know a bit about mead! Mead is a fermented honey and water mixture, some…
12 Best Books on Fermenting and Homebrewing
Fermenting is a great way to preserve foods and drinks in a delicious and fun way. Here are the 12 best books on fermenting and homebrewing. These books will give you a great start on how to make your own fermented veggies, kombucha, miso, tempeh, mead, and homebrew! Simple Mead Making eBook Before I get…
Homemade Spiced Pomegranate Wine
This homemade spiced pomegranate wine is a delicious and festive homemade fermented brew to make for the winter season. It has a gorgeous deep red color, not unlike red wine, and is rich in flavor. Pomegranate wine is perfect for the holidays! Artisanal Small-Batch Brewing Book This recipe for spiced pomegranate wine is from the…
15 Easy Mead Recipes for Beginners
Homemade mead (honey wine) is probably one of my favorite fermented beverages to make. It’s a simple and inexpensive way to produce your own tasty homebrew. I put together this awesome list of easy mead recipes so that you can have access to all of them in one place! Mead Making for Beginners Ebook If…
Spruce Beer Homebrew Recipe (made with spruce tips)
Homebrewing is one of my favorite things to do, but I especially love it when I can incorporate foraged ingredients. I came across some nice big spruce tips recently, and when I saw them I immediately knew what I was going to make with them: spruce beer! Homemade spruce beer has been something that I’ve…
