Strawberry Melomel
Ingredients
- 9 lbs bulk wildflower honey from Harvest Co-op
- 6 qts After the Fall Apple Strawberry juice
- filtered water Q.S. to make 3 gal
- 1 Tbsp yeast nutrient added after 10 min boiling was over
- Red Star champagne yeast
Instructions
Honey boiled 10 minutes with a little filtered water. Slight boil-over occurred. Yeast nutrient added to honey after the fact. Carboy & funnel sanitzed & rinsed w/ tap water. Juice poured in carboy. Boiled honey sat 10 minutes before being added to juice.
Brewing Stats
13 June 1999
start grav: 1.104
pot. alcohol: 13%
25 July 1999
racked. lots of sediment. topped up w/more must cooked same as
before, 1 qt juice + 1.58 lbs honey. could have used even more.