Birch Mead - Adam
Ingredients
15 lbs unrefined honey
birch bark (couple large peices - first outer layer)
water
14 grams champange yeast
birch bark (couple large peices - first outer layer)
water
14 grams champange yeast
Methods/steps
Equipment:
5.5 gallon glass carboy
cork
airlock
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heat 1 gallon water in large kettle
Add paper thin birch bark. When hot slowly add honey while stirring, until honey is desolved (do not boil). strain into 5.5 gal. carboy.
Top-off with room temp water. Seal. Wait 24 hours to add yeast. Add airlock, and wait.
5.5 gallon glass carboy
cork
airlock
---------
heat 1 gallon water in large kettle
Add paper thin birch bark. When hot slowly add honey while stirring, until honey is desolved (do not boil). strain into 5.5 gal. carboy.
Top-off with room temp water. Seal. Wait 24 hours to add yeast. Add airlock, and wait.
suppliers: co-ops. or beekeepers themselvs
notes: its good. it took 4 months to ferment. long time to settle also, but worth the wait. Enjoy.
-- submitted by Adam
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