Its been a few days and the sulfur smell hasn't returned. Victory. But now I'm worried about the opaqueness of it. Even after pectinase, its the most opaque witch's brew I've ever made.
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Care to share your recipe? I wanna try it again, too.
The one that that's about, with blueberries :
- 3 lbs honey in a 1 gallon carboy, then added water up to 2/3 ish (water left in a pot overnight to let the chlorine evaporate), 1 lb blueberries that I mashed up into a slurry and mixed in pectin enzyme, then finish adding water to the shoulder of the carboy. Fermaid-o
- This isn't exactly how I did it, but that's how it should've been done. Also might add wood chips later for tannin.
The other two :
- 3 lbs honey in 1 gallon carboy, some raisins - I forgot how much, like maybe a cup, water and shake
- tannins again, idk.
- gave one of these a vanilla bean, which I cut down the middle, longways.
- might've given the other one a cinnamon stick, but I forgot. Or maybe I planned to do that later, since cinnamon gives its flavor really fast. Idk, I'll have to wait and see. I wrote notes, but I know how bad I am about notes, so whsyefer I wrote is kinda untrustworthy.
- all 3 got a teaspoon of bread yeast. Some yeasts can go to higher alcohol level, but IMO if you don't care about alcohol then just any yeast works. You could get all sorts of flavors from different yeasts... But... I'm lazy...
All **_should_** turn out fairly sweet. If you don't like sweet, make it 2 lbs of honey.
Something I've learned is, less is more, and keep out of sunlight. I made a batch a year ago with every spice I could imagine, and also left it in sunlight. Idk what I made there, but mead it is not.