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purplerabbit ([personal profile] purplerabbit) wrote2005-03-03 06:35 pm

What's Happening

Upcoming Events at the Rabbit Warren:
Sunday, March 6, 2-5 PM - Madhatter's Women's Tea party

Sunday, March 13, 2-6 PM - Spring Ritual, Egg Hunt & Potluck

Friday, March 25, 8 PM - Full Moon Honey Blessing Ritual

Saturday, March 26, 2-6? PM - Mead Brewing

Thursday, April 7, 2-5 PM - Madhatter's Women's Tea party

Mead: Inquiring minds...

[identity profile] ri-whittlesey.livejournal.com 2005-03-04 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh. This is long, with lots of questions. It's an expression of interest, not a demand! Please, only answer if it's fun. When I get excited about learning something, I bubble over like a curious child.


Mead: I'd love to know more about it. Back in college, with a no-liquor rule, my roommates and I tried it, knowing nothing except "fermented honey", in a gallon jug with a wine valve. I recall that it worked much better with a handful of raisins in the jug (for 'healthful vitamins and minerals'?); and when it worked, it came out tasting something like sweet sherry.

Would you share your recipe and experience? For example, what honey-water proportions? Do you boil the honey, or the mix? (I've heard that's done to denature antimicrobial substances the bees put in the honey.) What yeast? Does anything go into it but honey, water and yeast? (Come to think of it, what honey do you favor?)

I'd love to hear what it tastes like -- and to look forward to another area visit, and maybe sampling.

[identity profile] cyan-blue.livejournal.com 2005-03-06 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'll likely be at the Women's Tea tomorrow.

[identity profile] maiasaur.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Still planning on egg hunt and mead days...they're on my calendar :)

[identity profile] thats-ms-dragon.livejournal.com 2005-03-08 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
I am planning to be at the Egg Hunt on the 13th. I think the whole crew, this house and the Oakland house and all the betweeners will be there. Is this ok? How many eggs should we bring? Anything else?

[identity profile] cyan-blue.livejournal.com 2005-03-09 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Emmett and I likely won't be at the egg hunt party - the current plan is for us to go away for the weekend. But we hope you have a good time!