MartyB
Well-Known Member
Just started this one.
12lbs local wildflower honey
35oz Mountain Ridge Honey (darker than the local wildflower)
1lb buckwheat honey
2-cans Oregon Fruit Puree Sweet Cherry Puree
Water to 6 gallons
2-pkgs Lalvin EC-1118 rehydrated in 80 deg water with some Yeast Energizer
5tsp Fermax yeast nutrient
OG- 1.104
Yes, I'm still too lazy for the SNA schedule. That's something I need to work on.
Heated 2 gallon of water on the stove. Had the honey warming in a hot water bath in the sink.
Combined hot water and warmed honey in brewpale.
Mixed the bejeezuz out of it (nice and frothy)
Added cherry puree mixing constantly
topped up to 6-gallon with cool filtered water mixing some more
Checked temp (83 deg)
poured in the rehydrated yeast/energizer/nutrient mixture
Started bubbling within 3 hours
Planning on racking this onto 5-6 split/scraped vanilla beans in 5-gal secondary.
After that letting it sit until clear and bulk aging as long as I can stand it.
12lbs local wildflower honey
35oz Mountain Ridge Honey (darker than the local wildflower)
1lb buckwheat honey
2-cans Oregon Fruit Puree Sweet Cherry Puree
Water to 6 gallons
2-pkgs Lalvin EC-1118 rehydrated in 80 deg water with some Yeast Energizer
5tsp Fermax yeast nutrient
OG- 1.104
Yes, I'm still too lazy for the SNA schedule. That's something I need to work on.
Heated 2 gallon of water on the stove. Had the honey warming in a hot water bath in the sink.
Combined hot water and warmed honey in brewpale.
Mixed the bejeezuz out of it (nice and frothy)
Added cherry puree mixing constantly
topped up to 6-gallon with cool filtered water mixing some more
Checked temp (83 deg)
poured in the rehydrated yeast/energizer/nutrient mixture
Started bubbling within 3 hours
Planning on racking this onto 5-6 split/scraped vanilla beans in 5-gal secondary.
After that letting it sit until clear and bulk aging as long as I can stand it.