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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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)
11:43 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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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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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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11:53 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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Instead of hops and citrus peel
If you know enough about flowers to know which are edible you can add some flowers. Rose petals would probably work well. I have used flowers from culinary sage and it was so excellent, strawberry mint flowers are good too. Dandelions (no green stuff) may be good
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11:55 PM - Apr 02, 2024
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LD Jones
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Whatever you add, submerge the bag (fermentation weight could help) and leave in place for 1 to 2 weeks. No more than that or you could add a vegetal grassy flavour.

You can bottle like this, or you could bottle condition it to carbonate it like a beer.

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12:00 AM - Apr 03, 2024
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LD Jones
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Carbonated, the wife compares it to one of those vodka seltzers they sell in cans. I bottle it dry, but if you like a sweeter drink then things get a little more complicated and take more explaining
It is a bit thin or watery but the carbonation helps that
Served flat I'd add tannin b4 bottling
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12:08 AM - Apr 03, 2024
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Vivant Anon
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THANK YOU!!
01:20 PM - Apr 03, 2024
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