The Falling Blog

Feb 10

Bottling Day. 95 bottles @ 0.75 L equivalents.

Jan 13

Golden Mead Orb on racking day.

Nov 10

Mead is Civilization

Metheglin 2012 commences!

Thank you to my most excellent friends who lent their equipment and muscles to the effort!

Aug 25

cleaning

time to clean the primaries

Jan 30

Didn’t post these yesterday, but I figured I’d put up the yield.

Pictured are 80 x 0.75 L bottle equivalents of mead. The bottles that are not traditional shaped are undiluted. The rest were diluted a small amount to have a final alcohol concentration in the neighborhood of 11.5% alc/vol.

:D

Jan 29

I love bottling day

MEAD Bottling!

oh, and just like that? It’s bottling Day. MEAD 2012.

Jan 14

What’s good Tumblr???

Happy Saturday night.

i’m finished filtering and pooling. Good lord that’s a lot of hooch. mead is my favorite thing…ever.

Give love or don’t. But if you don’t, man why are you on Tumblr?? Free heart votes for everyone!!!

lifeasamusical:

After following The Falling Blog and his mead making I decided to brew a one gallon batch of mead. I had everything in hand from my ale brewing except for the honey. I used champagne yeast that I always keep around in case of a stuck ale fermentation. I checked out The Falling Blog’s Instructable on mead brewing, as well as some other internet resources. I decided to make a simple mead with a half an orange, 12 raisons, and 2 2/3 pounds of honey.

I pasteurized the honey in a 1/2 gallon of water, added the oranges and raisons, topped off the water and added a yeast starter. I then shook it like crazy for 5 minutes. The airlock is bubbling as I type this. Now I just have to rack the mead every month for 3 to 4 months, then drop the yeast and let it age a little. I’ll probably just bottle the whole batch in a jug like my Grandfather used to do when he made wine. I don’t know if I’ll be able to wait 6 months to have it though!

Check this out! Someone is working hard to make some awesome mead! Thanks for checking out my page and for making mead :D

I apologize that you will be hooked on making this stuff forever. :D

Mead rack, part 1

Racking the mead today. Had to start with sanitation.

I have a 20 gallon primary fermenter. I started the sani this morning around 10.

I’ll be rinsing and treading with onestep next. After that, I’ll feed the kids dinner, get them situated in a movie and Then oh man. Pics time.

The fermentation is complete, so I’ll be racking through filter paper. I’m not quite ready to bottle so I’ll be filtering, pooling the two meads from the secondary fermenters into the big primary tank, cleaning the secondary fermenters, and finally diluting, back into the sanitized secondary tanks.

Big job, but the Mrs is gone for the weekend and I am bored. I even know what my dilution ratio is…

Jan 12

Mead will be racked.

This is a headsup that I will be racking a HUGE amount of mead coming up this weekend. Stay tuned for some fun pictures and possibly buzzed blogging! What are you brewing right now?

Jan 2

Mead sampled. Both fermenters are progressing nicely. We’re debating diluting it…

I’m not sure I wanna.

Nov 27

Mead Making (simple tutorial)

This is my Instructable on how to make a simple mead. I hope you enjoy it!

Nov 24

Happy Thanksgiving fellow Tumblrs!

Had a few extra hands around the house this week so we decided to rack the mead! The big batches of orange blossom honey that we just started are ready for the secondary fermenters.

Had some time to wax the tops of the blueberry we made in the late summer as well as made some time to hang out with the family. The house is full of that excellent bouquet that only this time of year can muster.

I hope you are spending time with the people who really matter to you, and not trudging through some obligatory event for the sake of it.

Have a great holiday everyone!

Nov 6

Mead Inoculated! Woo!

These fermenters are my pride and joy right now. They both contain improved replica recipes for my 3rd prize mead from 2010. These have had improved starting gravity, pH, and nutrirent feeds. I’ve improved the honey to a higher grade, (orange blossom!) which I purchased from a distributor in Lancaster PA.

60 lbs of amazing honey went into these two ten gallon batches. Imagine how many bees and how many flowers! The blue vessels are quietly keeping time in the corner of my little house. I love the sound of a new fermentation. The steady bubbling of the overflow container. It truly is a beautiful piece of living chemical art composed of billions of yeast working diligently to consume and produce. A humble microbe that has been a salient partner of the human experience for thousands of years.