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Jack Ratt Lyme Bay Black Cherry Mead, 75 cl

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First, you’ll need a glass gallon carboy — this is where you'll store your mead while it ferments. If you don't have a glass carboy, any food-grade, sanitized gallon container will work. Next, prepare your cherries. You can use either fresh or frozen, but make sure they are pitted. Tart cherries work well for complex flavors, while sweet cherries provide a richer taste. Weigh out the correct amount, keeping in mind that 2-3 lbs is generally suitable for a 1-gallon batch. If the recipe calls for yeast nutrients, stir them in now. As mentioned previously, many modern recipes will have you divide the yeast nutrients into 3 parts and add the first portion now. This is a way of feeding the yeast as it needs, and not overloading the fermentation with nitrogen early on. Once the yeast nutrients are stirred in and the must has cooled, you’ll add the yeast. Keep Your Cool Unlike most foraging animals — including her ancestors (wasps in the Crabronidae family) — she isn’t foraging for herself or her offspring. In fact, she can’t have offspring. She’s a reproductively suppressed worker who’s foraging for her hive — a colony of 30,000 to 60,000 bees, most of whom are sisters who likewise can’t lay eggs. In addition to her sisters, there’s her mother, the queen — who does lay eggs — and perhaps a few hundred male drones in the hive.

The alcohol by volume (ABV) of your cherry mead can vary depending on the fermentation conditions and the yeast strain used. To optimize the ABV and ensure a consistent alcohol content in your mead recipes, consider the following tips: Mead is terrific plain. But for me there is something absolutely spectacular about a mead when you add fruit to it and let it ferment those wonderful fruit flavors. In this tutorial I show you how to make a fruit mead or what we call a cherry melomel. When making cherry mead, selecting the appropriate honey and cherries will significantly impact the final flavor profile. In this section, we’ll discuss the importance of choosing the right type of honey and cherries for your mead recipe. This is a semisweet melomel, or fruit mead, flavored with cherries, that finishes around 12 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). It’s a great mead for beginning mead-makers, because the added fruit avoids many of the problems associated with making mead from only honey.The hop used for brewing is the cone-shaped flower of the female hop plants, also known as Humulus lupulus . There are different hop varieties that you can choose from. Each one of them has distinct effects on the mead. Nowadays, there are also hop pellets that are readily available in the market. Tasty Additions Now that your one gallon carboy is clean and your honey is warmed up, you are ready to pour the honey into the one gallon carboy. I like to chop the cherries (in a food processor) or mash them (with a potato masher), and let them sit in the honey for a couple hours before starting on the wine making. Cap the jug and shake well to mix it. You’ll probably have quite a bit of foam after it’s mixed; that’s ok, it will subside in a little bit.

After the primary fermentation is complete, it’s time to move on to secondary fermentation. This is the stage where additional flavors are developed, and the mead clarifies. Remove the cherries and vanilla bean (if used) from your must, using a sanitized strainer or bag. Then, carefully siphon the mead from the primary fermenter into a clean, sanitized secondary fermenter, avoiding transferring any sediment. Age your mead. The character of your mead will change significantly as it ages. This is especially important with mead! Siphon Cane - The siphon will be used to transfer you mead from the primary to the secondary. Here is a link where you can get a siphon: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/auto-siphon-1-... As discussed you can enhance the flavor profile of your cherry mead, by experimenting with various components, such as yeast selection, honey, and cherries’ quality. For a richer taste, consider using a high-quality honey with a distinct flavor, such as orange blossom or wildflower, instead of generic store-bought honey. Additionally, carefully select the cherries you use, making sure they are fresh and flavorful. Both sweet and tart cherries can create unique flavor profiles in mead. This is a great time to start tasting your mead, it's still a little long but you'll get an idea for what it'll taste like after aging.When in doubt, taste-test your mead for sweetness, and then go onto the next step when your mead tastes dry enough for your liking. If it still tastes too sweet, let it keep fermenting for several more days until it tastes more dry.

Pour saucy liquid from your pot onto the strainer and funnel to transfer the liquid into the gallon fermentation container. After your cherry mead has completed its fermentation process, it’s time to move onto the capping and bottling phase. This step is crucial in the mead-making process and requires attention to detail to ensure success.

Making Mead: A Complete Guide to the Making of Sweet and Dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment andCyser A great way to do this it simply to pop your mead in the fridge! Keep it in there for at least two days. The cold forces any leftover particles to fall to the bottom of your container.

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