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Lavender Mead

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Lavender Mead

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Beer Style: Open Category Mead  (26C)
Recipe Type: other
Yield: 5 US gallons

Open Category Mead

Description:

This is based on H.E. Bravery's Rose Mead, from Home Brewing

Ingredients:

  • 4lb honey
  • 1 pint lavender flowers
  • 1/2t champagne yeast
  • 1/4t citric acid
  • 1/2t tannin powder
  • 1t yeast nutrient

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Procedure:

Boil together honey and 1/2gal water for 5 min. Put flowers with citric acid and tannin in a gallon jug and pour the hot liquid over. Let cool in a sink of cold water to room temperature, then add yeast and nutrient and further water to make a gallon plus a pint. Add the airlock. Let ferment 1 week, then strain out flowers. Set the lock on again and ferment until all quiet. Bottle and age.

Second Ferment: 112 days
Aging (so far): 109 days and already great.

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