This will be my second batch of mead (as the first one was pretty improvised and didn't turn out well) which I will start this or next week.
Since my country is using the metric system, and I don't have any 1 gallon/5 liter demijohns laying around, I decided to make a 2 liter batch of JAOM and stick as close as I could to the original recipe.
So since it's a smaller batch than the original recipe (2 liter), and converted to the metric system aswell I tried to recalculate the ingredients amounts and came up with this :
-Approx 830 grams of wildflower honey (couldn't find any clover)
-Half a cinnamon stick
-1 clove
-Approx half an orange which I will cut to four quarters
-11 raisins
-Local brand of bread yeast as I don't have any Fleischmanns
So my questions are the following :
-Will a 2 liter plastic bottle and an airlock/improvised airlock be good enough for this? (Good enough as of not blowing up or leaving awful aftertaste)
-Will the rescaled amounts I came up with do fine?
-How much yeast should I use? I've read that one teaspoon is needed for one gallon and over, but since this is less than a gallon, should I use just half a teaspoon?
Thanks in advance.
Since my country is using the metric system, and I don't have any 1 gallon/5 liter demijohns laying around, I decided to make a 2 liter batch of JAOM and stick as close as I could to the original recipe.
So since it's a smaller batch than the original recipe (2 liter), and converted to the metric system aswell I tried to recalculate the ingredients amounts and came up with this :
-Approx 830 grams of wildflower honey (couldn't find any clover)
-Half a cinnamon stick
-1 clove
-Approx half an orange which I will cut to four quarters
-11 raisins
-Local brand of bread yeast as I don't have any Fleischmanns
So my questions are the following :
-Will a 2 liter plastic bottle and an airlock/improvised airlock be good enough for this? (Good enough as of not blowing up or leaving awful aftertaste)
-Will the rescaled amounts I came up with do fine?
-How much yeast should I use? I've read that one teaspoon is needed for one gallon and over, but since this is less than a gallon, should I use just half a teaspoon?
Thanks in advance.