I am racking and stabilizing a couple of my long term meads today and found that I am short on small quick drinking mead/wines/cider. So I thought I would use some leftovers and make a small 1.5L batch that is a low ABV something that I can get to in the next 30 days.
First after racking my skeeter mead I took some of the lalvin 71b lees and halved it with water, added a touch of DAP and B6, along with a couple tsp of honey and made a small starter to wake up the yeast.
Then after racking a ginger mead I took the leftover ginger, boiled it some and am now using that water.
I am going to make a partial bochet out of this.
I have 8.5oz honey in a pot with the ginger water and I am caramelizing it as we type. After a couple hours I will add that to the small glass carboy I have. I'll adjust the gravity with more honey to 1.06.
Tomorrow ill pitch the yeast and let her rip. wish me luck on this batch.
First after racking my skeeter mead I took some of the lalvin 71b lees and halved it with water, added a touch of DAP and B6, along with a couple tsp of honey and made a small starter to wake up the yeast.
Then after racking a ginger mead I took the leftover ginger, boiled it some and am now using that water.
I am going to make a partial bochet out of this.
I have 8.5oz honey in a pot with the ginger water and I am caramelizing it as we type. After a couple hours I will add that to the small glass carboy I have. I'll adjust the gravity with more honey to 1.06.
Tomorrow ill pitch the yeast and let her rip. wish me luck on this batch.