I must be jinked, I swear. Here is my brewlog.
1 gallon batch
3 1/2 lbs Clover (will finish sweet) may have been a little more (or less) as honey had crystallized and had a hard time getting it out and measured.
1 Large orange (cut small to fit in bottle)
1 small handful of raisins (25 if you count but more or less ok)
1 stick of cinnamon (was a really big stick)
1 whole clove
a pinch of nutmeg and allspice
1 teaspoon of Fleishmann’s bread yeast
Cleaned and sanitized all, including bowl and wire whip to mix up honey and water.
Put honey in hot water for about 1.5 hours before starting. Took large bowl and wire whip, mixed honey with small amount of warm water, alternating between pouring hot water into honey to add more and mixing with wire whip. Once most of the honey was dissolved (or I thought it was) I poured it into the carboy.
Wash/sanitized then rinsed orange cut into small pieces, was a big orange.
Put in raisins, clove, cinnamon stick (broke in pieces as a big as carboy), and spices.
Added water to where it curves up.
Took 45 minutes to get stuff mixed in, not sure if some of the honey didn’t get mixed up didn’t think I saw any more crystals but there was a lot of stuff floating on the bottom already.
put in 1 teaspoon of bread yeast here is where I lost track of what I was doing still did some vigorous shaking after the yeast cause I saw some honey crystals.
Covered with a dark shirt and put on the kitchen counter this was at about 9:30 pm, I do turn down the heat at night.
Was not really burping when I left this morning, temp of carboy was 68, put it by running dishwasher to warm it up. My house is cool as we are in the negative temps here.
Still not doing anything, looked like it was doing a real slow blip this morn before I left but that is all... So,,, what next...
1 gallon batch
3 1/2 lbs Clover (will finish sweet) may have been a little more (or less) as honey had crystallized and had a hard time getting it out and measured.
1 Large orange (cut small to fit in bottle)
1 small handful of raisins (25 if you count but more or less ok)
1 stick of cinnamon (was a really big stick)
1 whole clove
a pinch of nutmeg and allspice
1 teaspoon of Fleishmann’s bread yeast
Cleaned and sanitized all, including bowl and wire whip to mix up honey and water.
Put honey in hot water for about 1.5 hours before starting. Took large bowl and wire whip, mixed honey with small amount of warm water, alternating between pouring hot water into honey to add more and mixing with wire whip. Once most of the honey was dissolved (or I thought it was) I poured it into the carboy.
Wash/sanitized then rinsed orange cut into small pieces, was a big orange.
Put in raisins, clove, cinnamon stick (broke in pieces as a big as carboy), and spices.
Added water to where it curves up.
Took 45 minutes to get stuff mixed in, not sure if some of the honey didn’t get mixed up didn’t think I saw any more crystals but there was a lot of stuff floating on the bottom already.
put in 1 teaspoon of bread yeast here is where I lost track of what I was doing still did some vigorous shaking after the yeast cause I saw some honey crystals.
Covered with a dark shirt and put on the kitchen counter this was at about 9:30 pm, I do turn down the heat at night.
Was not really burping when I left this morning, temp of carboy was 68, put it by running dishwasher to warm it up. My house is cool as we are in the negative temps here.
Still not doing anything, looked like it was doing a real slow blip this morn before I left but that is all... So,,, what next...
