Mead!

MAJORdorMo

Hays

Good luck to ya bro. I've always wanted to try mead...

Lasabar

I love mead, there's a distillery/winery around my parts (Owl creek or something like that) That have a fantastic blueberry mead.... Gets ya good and drunk

kingjk729

I have some hard cider brewin right now ..... and now i feel i've been inspired to whip up a batch of mead now ......

clearlysuspect

kingjk729:

I have some hard cider brewin right now ..... and now i feel i've been inspired to whip up a batch of mead now ......

Alright. I'm teachin the fellas how to make sushi. You guys need to teach how to make hard cider and mead! I love both of those.

MAJORdorMo

Well I pitched in the yeast about 10 minutes ago, and I don't see much activity yet. And my god, this was a messy ordeal! My kitchen counter is sticky as hell right now =/

MAJORdorMo

Wow, I left for school around 11:30 and when I got back at 3, A LOT happened. There is a lot more foam now and the balloon is inflating! Pictures of its progress will come tonight.

zoom6zoom

I have a batch of raspberry mead that was started in January and is about to be bottled. I have another 15 pounds of honey waiting to start the next batch. I've never used that "ancient" recipe but sorta cringe at the thought of using bread yeast for it. I also have two 5 gallon kegs of my hard cider on hand.

clearlysuspect

I've gotta try this. It would be so awesome to show up to a party with 5 gallons of homemade rasberry mead!

MAJORdorMo

zoom6zoom

MAJORdorMo

Well I found the recipe I was using on the forum, and I should wait a mere 2 months before bottling it. Thats much more convenient than 6.

bigharpoon

MAJORdorMo

bigharpoon

Those carbonated tablets are usually either sugar or light malt in tablet form to give beer a little extra sugar to ferment inside the bottle after the fermentation is just about done. This probably won't really taste good in mead so I'd just bottle it before the batch is completely done and let it carbonate itself on the honey sugar. It will be a little bit of a gamble until you get the hydrometer how much fermentation is left, you might want to put it into thick glass belgian style beer bottles just in case they carbonate a lot they won't break on you.

MAJORdorMo

Eh, I really don't want to risk it, so I'll hold off on carbonation this batch. Thanks for the info!

zoom6zoom

You can have it both ways. Just add a tablespoon of honey to each bottle you want to carbonate (champagne type bottles).

MAJORdorMo

MAJORdorMo

Lasabar

Looking at that setup I would suspect that if you pull away from this scene you'd see Boss Hog and Daisy Duke in the background

MAJORdorMo