Hello,
This is my first post on Got Mead forums, and my first post on any forum to be quite honest. I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and will be heading home for R&R in about a week. Over the past couple of months I've been scouring forums (this one, home brew, wine making, even cheese making) and am almost to the point of obsessing over the home brew culture. I really want to brew a batch of mead while I'm home, and looking for some advice on feasibility and maybe some expectation management.
Here are the facts:
I will be home on leave for 15 days.
After the 15 days I will return to Afghanistan for 4-5 more months.
I have no brewing equipment.
I have zero brewing experience.
There is a local home brew store on the island (poor me, I live on Oahu) that has everything I think I could need to start.
Here is my question:
Is it feasible to brew anything in 15 days? This is high on my list "relaxation" activities when I get home (In addition to emptying beer bottles, to be used later).
I was thinking I could make a batch of JAOM and let it age while I was gone. I thought I remembered reading a thread about JAOM where someone left it in the primary for months and it came out "great". I cannot, however, find this thread now. Beer seems possible, but if fermentation took even one day longer than 15 days, I'm assuming I would lose the entire batch.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Justin
This is my first post on Got Mead forums, and my first post on any forum to be quite honest. I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and will be heading home for R&R in about a week. Over the past couple of months I've been scouring forums (this one, home brew, wine making, even cheese making) and am almost to the point of obsessing over the home brew culture. I really want to brew a batch of mead while I'm home, and looking for some advice on feasibility and maybe some expectation management.
Here are the facts:
I will be home on leave for 15 days.
After the 15 days I will return to Afghanistan for 4-5 more months.
I have no brewing equipment.
I have zero brewing experience.
There is a local home brew store on the island (poor me, I live on Oahu) that has everything I think I could need to start.
Here is my question:
Is it feasible to brew anything in 15 days? This is high on my list "relaxation" activities when I get home (In addition to emptying beer bottles, to be used later).
I was thinking I could make a batch of JAOM and let it age while I was gone. I thought I remembered reading a thread about JAOM where someone left it in the primary for months and it came out "great". I cannot, however, find this thread now. Beer seems possible, but if fermentation took even one day longer than 15 days, I'm assuming I would lose the entire batch.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Justin