((no, I’m not sorry))
So, we didn’t make root beer when my Moma came. And then life happened and we got sidetracked and now it’s July! So what have we been doing? Well, making mead, of course. We made a floral mead last weekend and then finally made our new root beers this weekend!Last weekend we had actually planned to make all the mead. Himself was off three days for the holiday weekend and we had all the ingredients for what we wanted to make. But somehow we managed to get to Monday evening without putting the honey on to caramelize, so we stuck to the floral mead. We made one gallon with 2 ½ pounds of honey (which is halfway between my usual 11% mead and his usual 14% mead) and a tea made of 1 part hibiscus, 2 parts heather, and one part lavender. It’s a beautiful combination of a tea that kind of tastes like burying your nose in a bouquet of flowers and is a beautiful rich purple color. I really wish I had a picture to post for y’all, but I didn’t take into account the fact that honey is golden brown, so when you add that much honey…..well, it turned brown.
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We decided to bottle some more mead this weekend. The Riva Wata cleared so beautifully, though the spices came through a little more strongly now that it has. But it looks gorgeous. The traditional didn’t clear but it still tastes so good. We ended up stirring up some of the sediment on the Riva Wata, so we combined the remains of the two gallons and we’ll bottle the last of that some time this week. We ended with 4 (750ml) wine bottles of Riva Wata and 2 wine bottles of the traditional, and 3 1L grogs of Wata and 2 1L grogs of traditional. We’ll be racking the last of the Riva Wata into a 1L grog when we do that.
Spiral Charmed Life 