As the title would suggest, I'm making a batch of mead. This photo was taken over the weekend as I was transferring the batch out of the secondary, and back in to the fermenter where it will stay for the next 2-4 weeks. It's about 12%% ABV, and drinkable as-is, but this is not its final form. Ingredients used in fermentation were a large quantity of pumpkin flower honey, water, and Wyeast 4632; original gravity was 1.090, final gravity was 1.000. It still tastes somewhat sweet despite all the fermentable sugars having been fermented, with a bit of a spiced finish.
The bulk of the batch was racked on to a mix of blackberries, red raspberries, and golden raspberries at a ratio of about 3:
:1/2. The blackberries and golden raspberries were harvested from my back yard (the raspberry bush is visible in the background, behind the roses), the red raspberries were sourced from a local farmers co-op.
After the 2-4 weeks of infusing are done it will go back in the secondary for at least 90 days to mature and finish clarifying at which point it will be ready to be bottled.
P.S. - I don't know what happened to the formatting there in the middle, and I also don't care. Thanks for reading, or not.
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If this is what vikings drank, no wonder they were so disagreeable.
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If you think viking mead is gross, you should try rakfisk. Now THAT is a dish that will make you unpleasant.
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Is that this stuff?
Warning: Bongs being very Bongish: lots of "mayte-mayte-mayte".
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No, this is not "stuff". This is a bong. A bong is a type of smoking device that is typically made of glass. It is used to smoke tobacco, cannabis, or other substances. Bongs come in many different shapes and sizes, but they all serve the same purpose.
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Feel like we might be all sixes and sevens there maytey.
Now the Queen has transitioned I feel the above Marsey is transphobic.
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We might be all sixes and sevens there maytey, but that doesn't mean we're not going to get the job done.
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