That’s one of the things I really enjoy about this as a hobby. You can kinda go crazy and do all sorts of stuff, or you can be incredibly and painstakingly meticulous. This was made forever ago, as well, and they didn’t have all the cool stuff we have now.
I’ve had life interfere with my brewing season this year, so I’m missing out on all my blorp blorping airlocks. But I’ve got s couple of carboys aging.
I might make a braggot in fall, we shall see. I’ve not made one of those before. I usually make a pumpkin spice beer around that time, maybe I’ll faff it into something weird.
No worries at all, and no offense taken. The feedback is what makes it better!
I can define stuff better this evening when I fix the list. I just saw the comment asking for something akin to this and figured I’d give it a go.
That’s fair. You don’t have to do that. I know for my first like ten or fifteen brews I didn’t open it once I started primary.
A basic mead primer
So you’ve never made mead before, or you’re curious what it is.
Mead is an ancient drink, with three basic components: water, yeast, and honey. In the grand scheme of things, mead is more closely related to wine than things like beer, cider, or hard alcohol.
Some fancier names for some fancier things. All variations below take the three simple ingredients and twists them(some slightly, others more so).
Traditional - water, honey, yeast. The bog standard, it’s a classic. It’s also delicious.
Metheglin - water, honey, yeast, herbs. This might be a weird Welsh word bastardization from which the word medicine derives. I haven’t bothered to dig deeper, but I like the story.
Melomel - water, honey, yeast, fruit. This is another very popular variety of mead. Fruit additions bring with them their own fun things, and can possibly contaminate a brew. Some like to add them in primary, some in secondary.
Pyment - water, honey, yeast, grape juice. Or maybe no water at all. This is wh
Cats and Lilies
Fun fact, the entire plant is toxic to cats. Stem, leaves, flowers, the water it sits in, even the pollen of the plant.
PAUC with Fluoro
This is pretty neat also, let's see how this looks.
Hello!
I'm making this as a kind of... I don't really know. Just seeing how all this works. I'm a vet tech at a specialty hospital, and I like to futz with programming in my off time. So, here we are.
We'll see if anyone ever looks here.