Easy Spiced Cider SO much better than the kits!
Curling up with a mug of steaming mulled cider is a lovely thing this chilly, dank time of year, but I beg you, don’t get those silly, frilly, expensive little [..]
Category: Elspeth’s Favorites
My first designer beer (recipe included)
I haz designed my first beer and I like it a lot! I’m pretty picky, mind you. This batch of beer is only about 4% and has an FG of [..]
Books for Brewers: Basic List of Books of Modern How-To on Beer and Mead
This is my collection of books of modern how-to on beer and mead – all the books I currently have in my library plus a few. There are even a [..]
Cherry Pyment
This has taken two silver medals so far this season (Merrimack valley Homebrew Competition and Meadlennium in Florida) and just helped me win the coveted title at the SCA event known as the Baronial [..]
Blood Orange Cordial
This year I made a modern Blood Orange Cordial. Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? I made it for historic competitions. Blood oranges, C. sinensis, were first discovered and cultivated in 15th century Sicily (the region [..]
Peach Cordial
My nephew Ross has been making cordials since college, but just recently knocked my socks off with this one and the Cranberry Cordial also on this site. Have you tried [..]
Cranberry Cordial
Have you tried this? Made it, tasted it? What did you think? 16 oz. cranberries 1/2 peel lemon, scraped 1/4 peel orange, scraped 1.5 c vodka [..]
Raisin Clove Melomel/Metheglin/Melometh
I believe this recipe is of my own devising by now, though it started with someone else’s. It was a favorite of my dear friend Elaine Koogler’s, known in the [..]
Middle Eastern Metheglin
This recipe is my own invention. I had mesquite honey, and was trying to match it with complimentary spices; it happened to correspond with teaching at a Middle Eastern- themed event. [..]
Killer Bee Braggot (Dark or Hefty Braggot)
This is one of my favorite recipes. It takes about ten months to age and holds well. Killer bee honey is dark, complex, very caramel-y – not like anything [..]
Autumn Spice Braggot
Not my recipe, but a darn good one. Have you tried this? Made it, tasted it? What did you do differently? Please let me know what you thought! 6.5 lb [..]