Vivant Anon
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Anyone here make your own #bread #yogurt #butter #cheese #kombucha or mead or #grow your own #mushrooms #canning #beekeeping #chickens (eggs or meat) #followback #garden #homestead #husbandry #farming

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06:55 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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In response to Vivant Anon.
I make, bread, mead, beer, and I grow my own grapes for my annual "backyard" pyment
07:28 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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RA
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In response to Vivant Anon.
My advice is to use Sandor Katz's Wild Fermentation method. Honey water ferments safely and automatically. You don't need to get fancy unless you want to.
11:54 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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In response to RA.
Fuck yeah! That's the fermentation bible!
01:04 AM - Apr 03, 2024
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Vivant Anon
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In response to RA.
Thank you!! I’ll see if our library has it 😍
01:12 PM - Apr 03, 2024
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LD Jones
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In response to Vivant Anon.
Here is a simple recipe, for a light brew ~5% abv
1 lb honey
Put honey in fermenter and add enough water so that there is 1 us gallon total must. Don't add a gallon... make the total volume of water and honey = 1 gallon
Add a yeast like K1V-1116 (forgiving but can bring out fruit flavours) (contd)
11:43 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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In response to LD Jones.
You can use most wine yeasts. EC-1118 would be fine but maybe not as flavourful. For this recipe even a bread yeast would work okay

Ferment to dry, (1.000 specific gravity) and then rack into a second container. Leave all the dead yeast and stuff at the bottom of old jar.

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11:49 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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In response to Vivant Anon.
Another thing I just thought of, is that honey is expensive, if you have worries about being a beginner, running a few brews with table sugar instead of honey can be helpful

So many people recommend lalvin ec-1118 (champagne yeast) for novice brews. It forgives mistakes BUT is not known for flavour
11:33 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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In response to Vivant Anon.
Dont assume high alcohol is better. The high alcohol ones need to age forever before they taste decent. The best meads imho that taste good right away are ones I made at 5 or 6%, flavoured with hops and other flowers and then bottle carbonated. If I get time I will reply with a recipe later,
11:18 PM - Apr 02, 2024 (Edited)
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