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Mead #5 – Busy Bee Clover Honey

Mead Recipe

Three verities of Crockett Honey meads working away and it’s time to try a different brand of honey. Busy Bee Clover Honey, I purchased 5 lbs of this on amazon: https://amzn.to/2WG3IAG for $19. So I may use the extra to make a cross brand batch at some point.

The recipe will the be same as the past three with only the honey differing. The starting gravities on three of the first four mead have been in the 0.06 range with the only outlier being the Crockett’s Natural Wild Desert Mesquite. I didn’t expect the brand change to cause to much of a gravity change but it’s still interesting to see the consistency. Now we will have to wait to see if the finished gravities are around the same.

Ingredients

  • 3 lbs. Busy Bee Clover Honey
  • ⅛ cup brown sugar
  • 0.5 gallon water
  • 0.3 gallon ice
  • 1pk Red Star Champagne Yeast

Instructions

  1. Make a yeast starter. With brown sugar and 2 cups water
  2. Bring Water to boiling.
  3. Warm Honey to around 100 degrees. DON’T BOIL
  4. Take water off heat and stir in honey until diluted
  5. Pour in ice stir until ice melts.
  6. Cool to around 75 before pouring in yeast.
  7. Pour into final container.
  8. Cap with a closed cap and shake 30 seconds to agitate.
  9. Remove cap and replace with airlock.
  10. Put in a temperature controlled area for 2 weeks.
  11. Move to secondary and read gravity.
  12. Put in a temperature controlled area for 2 weeks.
  13. Move to secondary and read gravity.
  14. Put back in a temperature controlled area for 6 months.
Original Gravity1.06
Second Gravity0.998
Third Gravity
ABV 1*8.3
ABV 2*8.14
Calories from Alcohol (12oz)162.800
Calories from Mead (12oz)31.212
Total Calories (12oz)194.012
Start Date09/20/2018
Primary Temp in Fahrenheit72
Primary Length in days20

ABV 1 formula: (76.08 * (og-fg) / (1.775-og)) * (fg / 0.794)

ABV 2 formula: (og – fg) * 131.25

Calories from Alcohol formula: 1881.22 * FG * (OG-FG)/(1.775-OG)

Calories from Mead Formula: 3550.0 * FG * ((0.1808 * OG) + (0.8192 * FG) – 1.0004)

Calories Total Formula: Calories from Alcohol + Calories from Mead