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riverrat
12-12-2007, 06:27 PM
Well I took the plunge made my firsts batch of mead using a real dark honey from wild flowers and a recipe from bullseye bill:eek: the mush bucket bubbled heavy for 5 weeks racked it over last sunday into the carboy where it is still slowly bubbling away can wait for it to finish up and be done. it has a good flavor and smell to it pretty strong stuff. I liked it so well I started my second batch using light citrus honey got it started tonight we will see how long it bubbles:D
Call us when it's ready, we'll be over to help you "test" the first batch :)
How about posting the recipe?
Haven't made mead in about 10 yrs. Still have all the equipment though and would ready to get everything out of Mothballs
BjornBee
12-15-2007, 06:40 AM
One, then two, then 10, then.....
After beekeeping had taken over the first garage, then taken over the second garage I built (which was suppose to empty the first one), and now I have both filled, the wife saw the whole "I really want to make just one more batch" coming. I guess wanting that pallet of carboys delivered was a bit much.....(this time). ;)
My goal is to let one of the 5 gallon batches work its magic, on some snowy night with perhaps some beeswax candles burning, and after filling her glass a couple times, then breaking the news for the full blown meadery in one of the kids rooms. (This of course after one of them moves onto the couch.) ;) Wish me luck.
Hey, isn't it suppose to snow tonight....
riverrat
12-15-2007, 07:17 AM
One, then two, then 10, then.....
My goal is to let one of the 5 gallon batches work its magic, on some snowy night with perhaps some beeswax candles burning, and after filling her glass a couple times, then breaking the news for the full blown meadery in one of the kids rooms. (This of course after one of them moves onto the couch.) ;) Wish me luck.
Hey, isn't it suppose to snow tonight....
borjn dont you have a few kids already. after a few glasses of mead you may be prone to forget your motive of breaking the news of a meadery:eek:
wasnt it jim morrison who said something to the effect that 90 percent of the kids born in this world was born from the bottom of a bottle of alcohol:cool:
any how you are right already trying to figure out how I am going to manage to get the extra carboys in the house without the wife seeing them:rolleyes: