Batch 069: Sit on my Face: Acacia Varietal Mead

Patrick and I recently put in another road trip to gorgeous Colorado and returned with something like 76 pounds of honey for our scientific experimentation. This varietal uses the pale acacia honey from Haefeli's Honey Farms in Del Norte, an agricultural town of 1,700 in southern CO. Naturally, batch 69 required a good, dirty name, so this one honors yet another Monty Python song (no, really, absolutely NSFW).

Ingredients in this batch

• 44 oz (2.75 lbs) Haefeli's acacia honey
• 1 ½ tsp yeast nutrient
• ⅛ tsp Fermaid K
• Distilled water to 1 gallon
• ½ batch of Lalvin 1122 wine yeast, rehydrated in ¼ cup of 99-degree water; the other half went in my buckwheat varietal, Batch 070.

Observations

• 2017-06-19T20:00:00: Yup, that there sure is a fermenting mead.