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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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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Vivant Anon
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In response to LD Jones.
What advice would you give for a novice mead brewer? 🙏
08:03 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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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)
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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 LD Jones.
Take a hop bag, muslin brewing bag, or a cheese cloth you can tie shut

Add 1/4oz or a bit more of your favourite citrusy hop to the bag and the zest of a lemon/lime/orange and then close the sack. Last time I added dried bitter orange peel with Idaho7 hops and it came out lemonade like
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