Well, with everyone making raves about it, and all the great pictures, I decided to throw together a batch of Joe's recipe over the weekend.
6 oranges, sliced into 1/8th's or smaller to get into carboy
1 1/2 gallons of Orange Blossom Honey
approx. 140 organic raisins
4 cinnamon sticks
6 whole cloves
a pinch of nutmeg
bottled drinking water to 6 gallons
1 package Fleischmann's yeast
11/20/04 - late evening. Threw everything but the yeast together in 6.5 gallon carboy. Only novelty was that I heated some of the drinking water to help loosen up the honey and get most of it out of the containers. Some of it had crystalized a little bit... I pitched the yeast last...
Once everything was in, I hooked the stirrer to the end of my power drill and swirled it at full speed for about 2 minutes. Put trap on. Went to bed...
11/21/04 While the mixture really did not froth enough to merit the headroom left in the carboy, after 12 hours it was bubbling at a rate of several bubbles a second, forcing some of the water in the trap up into the upper chamber just beneath the cap. The bubbles pop in the upper chamber and the liquid flows back down into the trap so this does not appear to be a problem. The odor given off is ok but not tremendously fragrant. You can smell the oranges and a little of the spice...
6 oranges, sliced into 1/8th's or smaller to get into carboy
1 1/2 gallons of Orange Blossom Honey
approx. 140 organic raisins
4 cinnamon sticks
6 whole cloves
a pinch of nutmeg
bottled drinking water to 6 gallons
1 package Fleischmann's yeast
11/20/04 - late evening. Threw everything but the yeast together in 6.5 gallon carboy. Only novelty was that I heated some of the drinking water to help loosen up the honey and get most of it out of the containers. Some of it had crystalized a little bit... I pitched the yeast last...
Once everything was in, I hooked the stirrer to the end of my power drill and swirled it at full speed for about 2 minutes. Put trap on. Went to bed...
11/21/04 While the mixture really did not froth enough to merit the headroom left in the carboy, after 12 hours it was bubbling at a rate of several bubbles a second, forcing some of the water in the trap up into the upper chamber just beneath the cap. The bubbles pop in the upper chamber and the liquid flows back down into the trap so this does not appear to be a problem. The odor given off is ok but not tremendously fragrant. You can smell the oranges and a little of the spice...
