Slammed into the primary when my granddaughter was born...bottled a year later....put back until she turns 21.
- 10 pounds of honey
- 6 gallons of filtered water
- 1 teaspoon yeast energizer
- 1 sachet Lalvin D47
Original Gravity 1.060
Final Gravity 0.995
Racked to secondary after 3 months and dry hopped with 2 ounces of mulling spices from the Spice House in Chicago.
1/4 cup of cane sugar during bottling for a lighly sparkling end product.
Taste, while bottling was good but pretty darn intense. I can only assume 20 years in the bottle will mellow it some.
So check back in 20 years and we'll see!
What a lucky, lucky little girl!
ReplyDeletewe should do something similar for your son.
ReplyDeletemead is a natural because it gets better and better....we should think of an irish related mead for aidan.
and you might notice, since this is for her 21st birthday, that it seemed prudent to make this a lower alcohol thing. for a mead, very, very light...
ReplyDeletejust being cautious...