Meanwhile, LAST Week!

[aggienaut]

   Last week I went up north and hung out with the delightful and lovely miss gratefuladdict. Adventures were had, which I wrote about in more detail here. In lj related news, however, I met blueashke, supremegoddess1, lostin_thestars, and stagger_lee77 while up there. They were all delightful and good times were had. In LJ Idol news, this means LJ Idolists emo_snal, gratefuladdict, blueashke and supremegoddess1 were all in the same place at the same time! Shenanigans.


Picture of the Day

I ordered a 5 gallon oak barrel myself the other day, I'm quite excited.

More pictures from the trip

Comments

Re: Vikingstead?!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ah. Interesting. I had termed the pointy beard I had my "viking beard" ... but gratefuladdictface made me get rid of it. =[

I think we discussed mead making in an earlier entry no? I looked it up, it looks more complicated than beer! You're supposed to balance the pH of the water (though of course, vikings surely didn't do this so I'd imagine it just helps), and it takes months rather than the weeks beer takes, and you're supposed to transfer storage vessels every few weeks to remove the stuff thats silted to the bottom ... ! /=

Re: Vikingstead?!

[heethen-crone.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've never heard of balancing the ph of the water. We use tap water. It does take months though. Sometimes a year. Depends on the honey, the yeast, what you've added to it. You only have to transfer once, occasionally twice if you have a lot of sediment. Some folks just gotta make stuff really hard. Some people add camden tablets to stop the yeast action. You don't have to, you just don't use as much honey or use a lower alcohol yeast. There's a lot of stuff out there about specific gravity too but again, it's up to you if you want to test for that. What you do have to be careful of though, is mineral content of your water. If you're not sure of what's in the water, you may want to use bottled. I do 'cause our water's crap here. We did discuss mead making before. I may have to do a lj post on that sometime soon.
I like the viking beard but that's just me. LOL