Trad Hydromel

Recipe

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• 1.25 gal water

• Calculated 2.461 lbs honey

Gravity & ABV

• OG ~1.072

• Target FG 1.000

Nutrients

Frontloaded these because we're under 10% ABV:

• Fermaid O: 2.2g

• Fermaid K: 2.5g

• DAP: 0.2g

Timeline - Pitch to Bottle

• Pitched on 10/05/2020

• Racked circa 10/17/2020

• Mead still in progress!

Notes

The day I made the Cherry Bomb mead, I used water to rinse out any honey still in the pail I used to weigh out honey earlier that day, as well as our old Orange Blossom pail, which was almost empty. I poured that honey water into a new bucket, and took a gravity reading.

My initial reading was 1.050, which was a bit low for my taste. I added a little bit more of our newer clover honey, got the gravity up to 1.072, and called it good.

So this is a "scrap" mead, mostly made from leftover honey. Also, I haven't managed to make a good traditional yet, so it seemed like a good opportunity to try again.

"Hydromel" is technically a misnomer here. I believe it's still going to finish close to 10% ABV, which no longer qualifies. But at the moment, my brain defaults to hydromel if I'm not allowing the yeast to hit their ABV tolerance, and by the time I realized it might not fit I'd kinda already stuck "hydromel" on all the labels. Haha