Bump this shit...

The Hard Cider was a total failure. Apparently the websites were correct about not having preservatives... who knew.

I'm still waiting for my bulk ingredients to show up... thankfully i didn't pay the guy up front, so it's not that big of a deal.

I managed to get a stout down right before leaving on winter break. I really need to get it bottled by tomorrow, it's been sitting for 3 weeks now. I went on the cheap alcohol-wise...

3.3 lb tin of dark liquid extract
1.4 lbs of roasted barley malt
1.7 lbs of chocolate barley malt
I think we used Amarillo (8% alpha) for bitterness and williamette (4%) for finishing hops.

The biggest fist-pump associated with this beer is that a few weeks prior, I had purchased a 5 lb bottle of honey at Sam's Club because we use it a LOT... and at the time, I thought, huh... I should be using this in beer (it's like $10 for 5 lbs so very cheap). Well, during the brewing process, I had completely forgot about it. But as we're nearly finished with everything I happend to open the cabinet that held the honey, and I was like YES!!!!!!!!!!! DUMP DUMP DUMP... so also

2.5 lbs of honey

Will that give it more dry character?

Can't wait to get it down so I start drinking it ASAP