{"id":2490,"date":"2008-12-05T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2009-07-09T22:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T05:18:42","slug":"making-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/05\/making-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I might end up embarrassing myself on this one. But I&#8217;ll go ahead and put myself out there. I wanted to make mead but I wanted to do it in the laziest way possible&#8230; just to see how it goes. Maybe it will come out like crap. No fear.<\/p>\n<p>It took me much longer to write this post than it did to actually make the mead.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/4 tsp of Red Star Premier Cuvee yeast from San Francisco Brewcraft<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp of Yeast Nutrient made by Brewmaster of San Leandro, from San Francisco Brewcraft<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp of Red Star Cote des Blancs yeast from San Francisco Brewcraft<\/li>\n<li>3.7 lbs Raw Blackberry honey from Rainbow Grocery.  $3.59\/lb flower honey<\/li>\n<li>empty glass 1 gallon bottle (from this organic apple juice they have at Rainbow Grocery)<\/li>\n<li>empty 64 oz juice container from Trader Joes<\/li>\n<li>1 gallon Crystal Geyser bottled water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I did:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>At the store, I put about 32 oz of bulk honey in a 64 oz container, total 3.7 lbs.<\/li>\n<li>Last night in the kitchen I put 1 splash of bleach in the glass bottle and filled it with water. I let it sit for 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>I emptied the glass bottle and filled it a couple times with tap water, swishing it around a bit<\/li>\n<li>I poured a bit of the bottled water into the honey bottle and shook it around so the honey would flow out of the bottle better.<\/li>\n<li>I poured the honey into the 1 gallon glass bottle and filled it to about 3\/4 with bottled water.<\/li>\n<li>I put 1\/4 tsp of Yeast Nutrient in the glass bottle<\/li>\n<li>I capped and shook the bottle for about 10 full seconds to mix it all up<\/li>\n<li>I put 1\/4 tsp of Premier Cuvee yeast in the bottle and shook it again<\/li>\n<li>I stuck the rubber stopper and airlock on it (it didn&#8217;t fit well so I used lots of packing tape to attach it :-(  )<\/li>\n<li>I stuck it in the corner inside a plastic bucket (to catch any honey goo that comes out if it gets too bubbly)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Done<\/p>\n<p>I had some leftover honey in the 64 oz container&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure how much because it was mixed with water&#8230; maybe 0.5 pounds. I filled the container with the rest of the bottled water, 1\/4 tsp of nutrient (oop, I probably should have added 1\/8 tsp) and 1\/4 tsp of Cote des Blancs. I splashed it back and forth into the now-empty water bottle a few times to try and get more oxygen into it (I read in a couple places that helps) and stuck a stopper and air lock in it.<\/p>\n<p>Both bottles are now sitting next to my bed.<br \/>\nResearch time: 3+ hours<br \/>\nActual preparation time: 15 minutes<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it comes out in 6 months or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The sites I found most useful:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranciscobrewcraft.com\/\">San Francisco Brewcraft<\/a>, 1555 clement st, San Francisco, CA 94118 in the Richmond betw 16th &amp; 17th Ave. \u00a0415-751-9338<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.otolith.com\/howitt\/mead.html\"> http:\/\/www.otolith.com\/howitt\/mead.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotmead.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=28&amp;Itemid=14\"> http:\/\/www.gotmead.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=28&amp;Itemid=14<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorbeer.com\/joyce\/mead\/BeesLees.txt\"> http:\/\/www.doctorbeer.com\/joyce\/mead\/BeesLees.txt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I might end up embarrassing myself on this one. But I&#8217;ll go ahead and put myself out there. I wanted to make mead but I wanted to do it in the laziest way possible&#8230; just to see how it goes. Maybe it will come out like crap. No fear. It took me much longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}