Brewing update

Racked the "Rowan" mead, viognier wine and heather mead on Oct 27th.  The heather mead is pretty dry and very harsh tasting.  It is also still extremely cloudy.  I'll probably be adding some more honey to it as soon as I get around to buying some - probably supermarket clover since I want it to have little effect on the mead other then sweetening it some.  The other two batches are in good shape.  I put the first mead downstairs to age some more, and probably be testing the wine again before the end of the month.

During (well, mostly after) my mead class on Oct 29th I started a five gallon batch with some of the cranberry honey I got at Pennsic.  It had crystallized on me and I hadn't noticed, so I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how I wanted to deal with it.  Eventually I scoped what I needed into a pot, added water and heated it on the stove until the honey dissolved.  Next time (tomorrow), I'll do that right from the start so it shouldn't effect my class too much.

Speaking of my class, my second mead making "lab" is tomorrow night.  I'll be starting a second batch with the cranberry honey.  Eventually I'll add some cranberries to one of the batches, but only one pound - just to see how much effect it has.

Brewing update

Racked the "Rowan" mead, viognier wine and heather mead on Oct 27th.  The heather mead is pretty dry and very harsh tasting.  It is also still extremely cloudy.  I'll probably be adding some more honey to it as soon as I get around to buying some - probably supermarket clover since I want it to have little effect on the mead other then sweetening it some.  The other two batches are in good shape.  I put the first mead downstairs to age some more, and probably be testing the wine again before the end of the month.

During (well, mostly after) my mead class on Oct 29th I started a five gallon batch with some of the cranberry honey I got at Pennsic.  It had crystallized on me and I hadn't noticed, so I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how I wanted to deal with it.  Eventually I scoped what I needed into a pot, added water and heated it on the stove until the honey dissolved.  Next time (tomorrow), I'll do that right from the start so it shouldn't effect my class too much.

Speaking of my class, my second mead making "lab" is tomorrow night.  I'll be starting a second batch with the cranberry honey.  Eventually I'll add some cranberries to one of the batches, but only one pound - just to see how much effect it has.