Homemade wine, mead,,and beer. Anyone have tips? I make cheap wine,never tried beer. Or mead.

I have made wine and beer.

Once I was gifted 50 lbs. of honey which I made into mead. Delicious.

However, I found out later that there may be a risk of botulism with mead.

True story: my wife is from a tropical country. She started putting Moringa leaves in my eggs every day.

I asked her if it was healthy.

"Oh yes! My grandpa put Moringa leaves in his pineapple wine that he drank every day".

I asked, "Well, was he healthy?"

She replied, "He was 109 years old, got drunk, and fell off his horse. That is what finally killed him".

Look up a ginger beer recipe. Also add a pineapple.

Look for gatherings of your local homebrewing club and local homebrew supply shop.

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Ha! Well, Botulism sounds no bueno. But the enjoyment might just outweigh the risk.

Thanks, great resource

2 all time faves of mine. I'll definitely look that up

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There are threads on this already. Just do a search.

For beer there will will be a significant cost for equipment. Kettles, fermenter, kegs, co2. etc. Do all grain it's much better. I used to brew 20 gallon batches at a time, which cost me ~70$ for all the ingredients. Works out to aboot ~0.88 cents per pint when all said and done. Now I do side hustle work at a brewery as the stage manager and sound engineer for the music there. Drinks for free all the time that way!

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That was a nice easy recipe with no special equipment. I have 5 mango trees and I wanted to try to make mango wine next summer.