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Local Shop Homebrew – Final Part: Carrot Wine!

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Remember the past posts, where I gave a quick tutorial on how to make your own homebrew from scratch? Well, the serioes is finally over! If you are interested to know what I am talking about, please click here, here and here

After three weeks in secondary fermentation and three days stabilizing, The wine was finally bottled! I had a taste and it was quite mild in taste, but so alcoholic! It was a very nice brew, very very cheap indeed! The total cost of the brew was about £5, so £1 per bottle, plus 500ml that were drank just moments ago!

If you are tempted to have a go at homebrewing, this is a very hard to get wrong type of brew! Highly recommended and, really, I hope someone will try it!

MelonMel Melon Mead (Tongue Twister?)

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It’s even difficult to say it, right?

I have been meaning to make a big batch of mead, since I haven’t attempted to make anything larger than 10L yet. In a local shop, close to my house, melon were on sale, so why not try to brew with it?

Melon has very little sugar… very, very little, so don’t expect to get much alcohol from it! 99% of the alcohol from this brew is coming from the honey.

For this brew, I used 4.5kg of honey, 3.9kg of the core of melon (weighed only the edible part), zest and juice of three lemons and a hand full of raisins. Let me know if you’d like me to explain the “whys” of the ingredients.

Boiled the fruit and the honey with a bit of water for 45mins, then strained it into a sterilized fermenting bin and topped up to 19L. The yeast here used is D47. The OG of the brew is 1.071 and I am expecting a FG of 0.995.

I will keep you updated on the progress! I am very interested on the final result!




Honey Lemon Chicken Leg with Couscous and Corn of the Cob

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I was craving some chicken and corn the other day, so I decided to try something I hadn’t done before. Simple buttered couscous and roasted chicken leg, seasoned only with honey, lemon and a hint of garlic, with a side of corn on the cob, mushroom and onion.

Slow cooked in the over for 1 hour, covered with foil and grilled for 5 minutes. The corn, mushroom and onion were cooked together with the chicken in the baking tray.

Enjoy!