What's Happening

[purplerabbit]

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

Comments

Mead: Inquiring minds...

[ri-whittlesey.livejournal.com]

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.