12:58 a.m. - Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2007
the dreams flow like a chemical
ok so this didn't work when i tired to post it up yesterday, so i try again:
my first mead reicipe:
ingedenats:
7 lbs honey
five gallons of water
a big ass jug.
1 packet of champain yeast.
mix the honey in te water, (you are supposed to boil it 15 min, but after the pot boiled over, i said screw it) you have to mix the water and honey pretty well, you want it all disloved. (a side note you are also supposed to use a whole lot more honey, but i didn't know that at the time) once the honey in disloved in the water, pour the yeast into a glass of clorine free water, and then into the carboy. put the fermentation lock on it, and wait.
in two to three months, it will be ready to bottle.
i used mason jars to bottle it, but i suppose beer bottles would work as well.
then comes the hard part, wait at least a week before drinking.
this produced a yeasty white wine flavor. and really stong, the yeast went after all of the sugar that was avaible, i think that's why you are supposed to use more honey.... but i like it.
for my next bottles i'm going to mix rice, barley, honey and the very same yeast... once i get another carboy since i sort of broke the last one when i was cleaning it out... (turns out the carboy handle thingy i had, wasn't for that size carboy, my bad)
np: despactios, the happyist place on earth
their straightening those amber waves, purple majesty
