Hello everyone
I did the classic thing of reading and researching almost nothing before jumping into a project and then reading about it later. I wanted to show everyone what I currently have brewing and see what you think. First I got a "Spike your Juice" kit from thinkgeek & it seems to be a super simple kit. It came with one air lock & 5 packets of yeast with a piece of paper with the following instructions:
1) Pick your Juice: Minimum sugar content of 20g/serving & maximum of a 64oz bottle. No artificial sweeteners.
2) Spike your Juice: Pour packet into juice, no stirring, throw cap away, attach label.
3) Add air lock and fill air lock with water as shown
4) wait 48 hours and enjoy! Wait longer for dryer taste and increased alcohol content.
Tada! thats all there is lol. I made one batch that was pomegranate cranberry raspberry. It was good and I waited 4 days before tasting. I did filter it because I wanted sediments out of it.
I have another batch in the fridge that is blueberry raspberry cranberry. That one waited 3.5 days before filter and into the fridge. Have not tasted that yet.
Here is where I jumped into things headlong and want your opinions.
I thought, how cool would it be to make traditional mead? So I set to trying that. I gathered a 64oz juice bottle, one bottle of honey that was "raw pure honey" from wallmart, & I wanted to add some tea so I purchased "Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla Chamomile herbal tea". The yeast in the thinkgeek kit is not labeled well as to what it really is but here are the ingredients on the package:
Yeast, Organic evaporated cane juice, emulsifier.
So thinking this is as simple as the above instructions are I just put 8 bags of tea in the juice bottle, added almost all of the honey to the bottle, added water, shake it up. Added package of yeast. Finally I wanted to add airlock but the one with the kit was being used so I took a balloon and punctured 3 really small needle holes and added that for an air lock. I am on day 4 of the brew now and the bubbles are still going strong. I will attach some picks of day 3 so check it out and let me know what you think. Oh and be brutally honest about anything. I just want to learn now while I am only into this by a few dollars lol.
I did the classic thing of reading and researching almost nothing before jumping into a project and then reading about it later. I wanted to show everyone what I currently have brewing and see what you think. First I got a "Spike your Juice" kit from thinkgeek & it seems to be a super simple kit. It came with one air lock & 5 packets of yeast with a piece of paper with the following instructions:
1) Pick your Juice: Minimum sugar content of 20g/serving & maximum of a 64oz bottle. No artificial sweeteners.
2) Spike your Juice: Pour packet into juice, no stirring, throw cap away, attach label.
3) Add air lock and fill air lock with water as shown
4) wait 48 hours and enjoy! Wait longer for dryer taste and increased alcohol content.
Tada! thats all there is lol. I made one batch that was pomegranate cranberry raspberry. It was good and I waited 4 days before tasting. I did filter it because I wanted sediments out of it.
I have another batch in the fridge that is blueberry raspberry cranberry. That one waited 3.5 days before filter and into the fridge. Have not tasted that yet.
Here is where I jumped into things headlong and want your opinions.
I thought, how cool would it be to make traditional mead? So I set to trying that. I gathered a 64oz juice bottle, one bottle of honey that was "raw pure honey" from wallmart, & I wanted to add some tea so I purchased "Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla Chamomile herbal tea". The yeast in the thinkgeek kit is not labeled well as to what it really is but here are the ingredients on the package:
Yeast, Organic evaporated cane juice, emulsifier.
So thinking this is as simple as the above instructions are I just put 8 bags of tea in the juice bottle, added almost all of the honey to the bottle, added water, shake it up. Added package of yeast. Finally I wanted to add airlock but the one with the kit was being used so I took a balloon and punctured 3 really small needle holes and added that for an air lock. I am on day 4 of the brew now and the bubbles are still going strong. I will attach some picks of day 3 so check it out and let me know what you think. Oh and be brutally honest about anything. I just want to learn now while I am only into this by a few dollars lol.