Brew store guy said to heat must. Some people say this is necessary. Others don't do it.
# Making Some Mead
I am a beginner, so I am making this simple.
The goal: Make a gallon-ish of medium-to-high-gravity mead.
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## Ingredients:
5g packet of LALVIN K1-V1116 wine yeast: 
0.5 teaspoon of Yeast Nutrient:
2.5-3.0 pounds of local, raw wildflower honey:
Local natural spring water; whatever helps the honey must hit a little over a gallon:
10-14 lbs ice.
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## Equipment:
1 kit small primary fermentation bucket, for a gallon-ish of must (honey+water)
1 kit airlock:
1 All-Clad Stainless 6 quart stockpot. A gallon reaches just over the inner handle rivets.
1 Rando cooking thermometer I had sitting around:
1 Kit sticky thermometer boi (didn't use):
1 Hydrometer (didn't use, see What Went Wrong section):
1 Packet No-Rinse Sanitizer
1 Plastic storage container for sanitizing equipment and chilling the pot with the heated 
must:
1 cleaning spray bottle for on-the-spot sanitizing
1 stainless spoon
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## Process
1. Fill plastic tin with hot water up to just below honey jar height. Place jar(s) of honey in hot bath to warm up the honey for 10 minutes
2. While honey is warming, fill primary fermentation bucket with gallon of warm tap water and mix sanitizer in; (in an amount according to sanitizer instruction, e.g. 1tbsp per gallon of water).
3. Mix sanitizer with spoon until dilluted. Cover bucket with lid tightly and agitate to thoroughly coat inside of bucket in sanitizer.
3. Open bucket. Put equipment in sanitizer solution (spoon, airlock, hydrometer). Close bucket.
4. Place stock pot on oven, and pour out honey into it. Use a clean, sanitized and dried, spatula or spoon to scrape walls of jars to get as much honey into the pot.
5. Turn on burner to medium-high
6. Pour spring water into pot and stir with the sanitized and dried spoon. You now have must (honey+water mixture)
7. Turn heat to high, hold/place thermometer in must, and stir ocassionally
8. While must is heating
a. empty tub and make an ice bath with tap water and the ice.
b. use primary bucket spigot to fill spray bottle with sanitizer solution. Use this spray bottle to spot-sanitize any equipment youre not sure about. Bettwr safe than sorry.
c. Open bucket, remove equipment, and pour out remaining sanitizer. Place sanitized hydrometer and airlock aside on clean paper towel.
d. Return to must to stir occasionally and measure temperature
9. Heat must to 155°F. Then remove from heat.
10. Carefully place stock pot in ice bath and cool must. Cool must to 80°F.
11. Remove stock pot from ice bath. Pour must into primary fermenting bucket.
12. Measure out yeast nutrient for 1 gallon must, per packet instructions (e.g. ½ tsp per gallon) and pour in bucket.
13. Pitch entire yeast packet in bucket.
14. Cover bucket with lid. Ensure it is tight.
15. Spot sanitize airlock and place in lid hole of bucket.
16. Gently shake bucket to agitate mist, nutrient and yeast.
17. Place bucket in cool, dark place that will be between 65°-70° F, elevated and stable above the floor (like on a step stool or pile of books) to keep temperature stable.
Brew day is done!
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## Things that went wrong
1. 1 gallon of must is too shallow for my hydrometer, so I couldn't get a starting gravity reading.
2. Nervous about must temperature at time I pitched yeast. We will see.
Oh my God I am STOKED to make mead. Gonna heat and bucket the primary tonight. Will document with long form post with pictures. I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'll do a long form post about it with photos
Today I am going to make mead for the first time. With local honey and mineral water.
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UK folks to evolve into troglodytes.
I just always thought their wives' boyfriends were in charge of the finances and forbade it.
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Honestly, probably because I was like 12 or 13 when I read the book and subsequently rented the VHS.
I think I remember the scene vaguely. The alien removes its mask and Walken is like "Except that's not it, is it? It's just another mask, like a Chinese puzzle box. Under that is another mask and so on... " or something like that.
Honestly, probably because I was like 12 or 13 when I read the book and subsequently rented the VHS.
I don't remember this scene in Communion
Drinking mead.
Listening to #dungeonsynth.
I should make mead.
THERE WILL BE SIGNS
