Orange mead

Also added potassium metabisufite to the orange mead to stop fermentation. I will be adding honey two it in about a week or so for sweetening.

Appel cyser secomdary

Moved apple cyser to secondary fermenter today a one gallon glass carboy and another gallon carboy filled about half way. I figured I could use the half gallon to re fell the full gallon as I siphon off the mead when racking.

Crisis averted

Well wasn't that bad but sounded dramatic lol. I'll leav the blow off tube in until I don't see gunk coming threw the air hose. Then I'll just replace it with original air lock this mead is going to age a  while.

A first for me

   Got off work this morning came in changed out of work clothes a must after a 12 hour shift. Went to take a look at my meads, when I walked closer I noticed the air lock for the cyser, I started yesterday day was brown. The mead is fermenting so vigorously that it has bubbled all the water from my air lock and there is now cyser in its place. I have watched videos on YouTube of beer brewers using blow off tubs never thought I would need to do one for my meads but I think I might just have to use one for this mead.

Appel Cyser

   Well today was brew day, I decided I wanted a Christmas mead so I poked around on the net and I came across one to try. Man did this mead smell great while mixing it up with the apple juice, honey and spices I used. I am not going  list the steps I took to make this mead but will share the recipe. If you would like to see the step I use to make my mead's cheek my very first post I go in to detail on each step.

3 pounds of wild flower honey 
1 Gallon Walmart brand apple juice many this hear is the juice can have no preservatives in it your must will not ferment with them in it.
1 Al spice berry crushed
1 Clove crushed
1/4 tsp cardamon berry powder
1 tsp vanilla ext
1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp yeast enigizer
1 tsp yeast nutraints
1/2 tsp tannin

Yeast used D-47 one packet

OG was 1.090

update

   Well guys I have not been doing a good job keeping up with my blog so here is a update. Since my last post I have racked the orange mead at least three times, it has cleared up nicely and will be ready for bottling by this time next month. I have not decided if I'm going to to leave it a still mead or make a few 16oz bottles sparkling. I have been trying to find some four oz glass bottles so I can pass out a few samples, but have not been able to find any I like yet.

                                                pic of mead close up clearing out
 

                                                   Mead 2 days later clear as a bell



  I have also made a hard cyder if I can find where I wrote down my reading and exact recipe I will update with it. I bottled the cyber last weekend and it should ready to drink in about a week.

                                                This is the hard cyder cleared out

 I was able to get seven 16oz bottles and about a cup off of a gallon of cyder. This stuff is stout just tasting it while adding the acid blend and sugar I got a good buzz. Should turn out to be a really nice drink tart sweet apple taste.

Day five six bubbles a minute. Forty degrees outside. Fifty degrees inside