Should I or Shouldn't I?- Okra Mead Debacle

[CreamyGoodness]

So far this stuff is terrifying. I always approach it wearing goggles and carrying a sword (don't tell Airborne I own a sword), just in case.

The amount of CO2 this sucker is sending out is epic. No matter how many holes I poke in the balloon I have to poke more the next day or the balloon just gets bigger and bigger. When I let some air out of the holes, some okra slime comes with it. If I lick my finger, I get honey-flavored okra slime.

The okra spears appear to have bonded together and travel together, upright, as sort of a raft if I turn the bottle upside down. Thats concerning. Also, we have a good inch to and inch and a half of yeast schmutz at the top. The honey has fallen out of solution and is a lump at the bottom (unconcerning since JAOM-style meads seem to have no problem munching the honey pile a few millimeters at a time) and the water has taken on a greyish green color.

I'm so frigging glad you guys talked me into this!:rockin:

 

[Subsailor]

Creamy, you got a photo?

 

[Whattawort]

I just threw up a little.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'll snap one tonight. hehehe.

 

[Obliviousbrew]

Now I need to know how this turns

 

[CreamyGoodness]

By the way, I see some conspicuously absent votes from the poll. I dont think the mods approve. hehehehehehehehehehe

 

[Whattawort]

So what's the word? Gotta pic of this beast?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Here it is in all its terrifying glory!

 

[sonofgrok]

How is your brew set up so fancy and yet so ghetto at the same time?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

That's how I roll.

 

[Whattawort]

That's truly horrifying.

 

[TNGabe]

I'm not religous, nor do I believe in fate, but....

Has it occured to you that this whole Sandy thing is God / the Universe trying to destroy the abomindation you've created? Throw your fermented okra beverate into the eye of the storm.

 

[cheezydemon3]

So what won? Tubes or damned Dalai Llamas?

Wait, What?

Throwing celery mead into the storm might cause it to rapidly multiply into a steady rain of celery mead, causing MASSIVE suicides.

 

[Subsailor]

Here it is in all its terrifying glory!

Cool with the black balloon and all!

 

[cheezydemon3]

How is your brew set up so fancy and yet so ghetto at the same time?

Like RIGHT???!??!?!?!?!?

Check out the fancy curtain and the chalk board, lol.

Bet he has some WIERD orgies there.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I can neither confirm nor deny any orgies at this time.

I can however confirm that the foam went down (kind of like detergent or starsan foam) a couple days ago so I topped off with a little more water. Now there is about an inch of water above the okra "raft" with a singular seed that bobs up and down with the yeast farts. There might come a day where I have to euthanize this sucker before it causes a public menace.

 

[hungry4hops]

I love everything about this thread!

 

[imaltation]

Okra Winfmead?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

This potion is looking more and more like mead. the strata of honey on the bottom is gone (though I can tell all of the honey has not been "eaten" just yet) and it has taken on a decidedly golden meady color, with a greenish-brownish tint. The flacid and soggy okra spears are still globular at the top of the bottle where the curve meets the neck. Above that is about an inch more golden colored liquid, with a raisin and some okra seeds floating and bobbing in it. Too soon to tell how its going to taste, but mead is definitely being made.

It sits on my setup next to a liter bottle of persimmon and cinnamon mead, btw, of which the wife finds much less frightening...

 

[Obliviousbrew]

Do you ever had the fealing that moves at nigth when nobody is watching?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

The okra mead and I have come to a shaky understanding these past few weeks. I think it respects my point of view... and for holding my ground despite my fears...

 

[sonofgrok]

Or crawls off like that meal in better off dead?

 

[jerrodm]

Yes!

"You said you didn't like all the grease from fried bacon, so I boiled it."

 

[Subsailor]

The okra mead and I have come to a shaky understanding these past few weeks. I think it respects my point of view... and for holding my ground despite my fears...

Do you have a photo?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'll try to snap one tonight when I am back at the homestead.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'm not sure if they are getting better or just... more... of... what they are...

 

[TNGabe]

Oh Creamy.....

I sure hope you drink it live on this here interwebs.

 

[Randar]

I love mad science. In the past I have used liter bottles to make experimental meads with varying success. Below are my wins and losses.

Espresso- FAIL
Celery- Epic WIN
Serrano and Hot Sauce- Win
Lavender- FAIL

So, I have a new crazy idea. Okra!

Good luck! If you ever get the itch to make a persimmon mead lemme know and I will save you the time by sending you a bottle of liquid tannin.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Oh Creamy.....

I sure hope you drink it live on this here interwebs.

Totally planning on it... live to tape at least. I will need to find one of my friends with a camera and another to provide color commentary.

 

[sonofgrok]

Totally planning on it... live to tape at least. I will need to find one of my friends with a camera and another to provide color commentary.

Friends? Pshaw... you don't have to lie to us creamy.