{"id":146,"date":"2008-02-13T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/?p=146"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:34:23","slug":"68-medium-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"68. Medium Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"

5kg Yellow Box honey
\n1kg Orange Blossom honey
\n1kg White Clover honey (a bit crystalised)
\nLalvin 71B Yeast, stepped up twice in starters
\n5g wYeast nutrient
\n16L water (4L boiled, 10L refrigerated, 2L tap)<\/p>\n

Warmed honey in a sink of hot water, Boiled 4L water, dissolved honey into it. Temp was too low (in the 50s) so I heated it to 71, left it for >10 minutes to pasteurise. Added 10L refrigerated water to fermenter, added must, topped up with 2L tap water. Pitched yeast slurry from starter, put in fridge, set to 18\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Starters were made from 200g honey in 1.5L starter with 1\/2 teaspoon yeast nutrient, and the second starter additionally had a table spoon of LDME. Both starters were stirred on the stir-plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5kg Yellow Box honey 1kg Orange Blossom honey 1kg White Clover honey (a bit crystalised) Lalvin 71B Yeast, stepped up twice in starters 5g wYeast nutrient 16L water (4L boiled, 10L refrigerated, 2L tap) Warmed honey in a sink of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}