dummkauf
Well-Known Member
Just thought I'd share this one, I had 4Lbs of buckwheat that I picked up a few months ago and decided to make a 1 gallon mead batch since I'm snowed in today. Just going for a simple batch to see what happens(I've found varying opinions on using all buckwheat for mead online and figured I'd give it a shot myself):
4Lbs local BuckWheat Honey
1Tsp Yeast Energizer
Tap water up to the 1 gallon mark.
1 Package of Red Star Pasteur Red.
I didn't pasteurize or boil, I added the yeast nutrient, then the honey(soaked containers in hot water for a bit first), then flipped the tap water on high, used the hot water to rinse out the honey containers and dumped it into the jug. Shook it up for about 20 min to aerate and thoroughly mix the honey & water. It's cooling in a sink full of water and snow now, will pitch the yeast when it's cooled down.
I have some camden tablets but haven't used those before, should I crush some up and add them to this, or do I do that after fermentation? My other meads have been coming along great without camden so I'm just curious what you experts opinion is on this?
4Lbs local BuckWheat Honey
1Tsp Yeast Energizer
Tap water up to the 1 gallon mark.
1 Package of Red Star Pasteur Red.
I didn't pasteurize or boil, I added the yeast nutrient, then the honey(soaked containers in hot water for a bit first), then flipped the tap water on high, used the hot water to rinse out the honey containers and dumped it into the jug. Shook it up for about 20 min to aerate and thoroughly mix the honey & water. It's cooling in a sink full of water and snow now, will pitch the yeast when it's cooled down.
I have some camden tablets but haven't used those before, should I crush some up and add them to this, or do I do that after fermentation? My other meads have been coming along great without camden so I'm just curious what you experts opinion is on this?