#homebrewing

[venusangelite]

first zine for zinefest 2026 - how to make your own booze

[anarchafemme]

🖤 35

🖤 she/her

🖤 white

🖤 intersex

🖤 TMA

🖤 femme4butch/stud

🖤 pillow princess

This is a personal blog and will range from politics, to fandom, shitposts, hobbies, venting, to mild nsfw

Media I post about is mostly Baldur's Gate, Sailor Moon, Dungeon Meshi, Warframe, Utena, and Rose of Versailles

My hobbies are primarily gardening, culinary arts, and homebrewing, I don't post about them super often but that's subject to change.

[schismmm]

Big ginger beer ferment has lava lamp energy

[marachette]

i regret to inform that i am an even bigger nerd than i already seem. sorry guys!!!

i used to do dnd at a local library, but i was a fairly new player, the entire party was a mess in a not-fun way, and i now have beef with three of the members of that party. all that aside, i really do want to get into dnd. like genuinely it seems fun!

mostly i want to homebrew and be a dm. I CAN HEAR THE CLAMOR ALREADY "homebrew as a first experience is so ba-" shhhhhhh. ill learn. but the idea has taken hold and i cant get it out. anyhow if anyone has any tips for dnd PLEASE TELL ME I BEG I BEG AND PLEAD!!!! specifically for homebrewing. and everything else but mainly homebrewing....

[clatterbane]

One batch of Swedified Frankensake coming up! 😁

Just getting ready to start on another weird batch. I had been wanting to try a Thai black rice and blueberry brew mainly for the color, but the pressure cooker I've been using as a rice cooker for glutinous rice is messed up and we haven't fixed or replaced it yet. And I really didn't want to mess with steaming wholegrain rice over a pot of water on the stove.

But, I have also been thinking of trying something with oats for a cheaper brew using at least mostly local ingredients. (Also want to try growing my own koji on oats, but not right now.) Apparently at least one other person had luck with a combo oat and rice wine: Has anyone else experimented with oats? Just bottled a 45/55 oat/rice micro-batch. It’s silky smooth.

May as well try combining the two experiments!

So, I decided to try basically adapting the corny batch recipe to start off with cooked oatmeal instead of cornmeal mush (or rice porridge) partly because it's cheaper than the other oats. Also scaling this batch down some, on the chance it turns into a real shitshow.

We've also got that wholegrain oat "rice", which I think is actually steamed or something to make it cook faster. It does cook up just about like white rice. Sort of hedging my bets with that jasmine rice. I know it works fine for part of a batch with the pricier glutinous rice, and we accidentally bought boil in bag stuff which is handily premeasured out at 125g a bag. Couldn't hurt, and I'm just planning to cook them together in the same pot. They're close enough on cooking time and water ratios that it should hopefully work OK.

I guess half that bag of berries can get thawed and thrown in when I add the whole oats and rice after a couple days.

Will this turn out drinkable? That's anybody's guess. Should it be fun to try? Hells to the yeah.

[tehsnowyowl]

A WIP cover for the Call of Cthulhu scenario I am home-brewing completely from scratch. This was done on my phone and i plan on redoing it more detailed on my iPad very soon.

A missing girl sends investigators down a path filled with questions, but very little answers. A retired detective, an occult shop owner, a killer with motives unseen, and an island once home to a military fort now overgrown and long abandoned. What happened on Carthurst Island? What lurks below in the depths of Silver Lake?

WIP map for the campaign below, not the final draft its gone through so many iterations and it will continue until i like the shape of the lake. (P.S. I have NEVER made maps before so it looks like piss all at the moment

[zekedanger]

Hello everyone! I would love to share my journey into to world of mead making with all of you. So let's jump right into it and get the technical things out of the way.

I'm going for a 1 gallon brew which I will flavor after the first fermentation with a mix of blue berries, raspberries, strawberries, and black berries. Mostly because I'm not a fan of plan mead. I find it a little to sweet. The ingredients are 3 pounds of honey and 3 quarts of water i used a wild flower honey made in Austin. Pictured below.

For the yeast i am using Lalvin 71B. It is primarily used for wine making and will bring some grape notes to the party.

I spent the last week finding my brewing vessel and test equipment (graduated cylinder, hydrometer ect.)

The above picture is all the equipment post sanitization. I used something called star san a no rinse sanitizer that I am a little nervous about because every fourm I read said to "ignore the foam" left by the solution. I really hope this works out.

A few things I learned while getting everything into the 1 gallon carboy

1. Honey goes through a funnel extremely slow.

2. Mixing the honey and water in the carboy is tough because i have to shake it until it all mixes. Maybe next time I will use a a fermentation jar.

3. Its possible but not wise to add yeast directly to the honey for the same reason as number 2.

Here is everything all mixed together.

The initial gravity reading is 1.10 and from what I read that is about the right starting place. I have no idea how they hydrometer works I just know I take this reading and subtract it from my last reading do some math more math and get an estimate on how much alcohol I made.

I have it stored in a relatively cool dark place with a one way valve sealing it. Updates will be in about a week or if something interesting happens before then. Wish me luck, and let's hope I help won't be meaded.