Another shot at a bochet, since the last few seem to have turned out so well.

Ingredients in this batch

  • 2 lb. cranberry blossom honey from Ziegler's Honey, moderately caramelized by heating, covered, for 210 minutes in our Crock-Pot on high.
  • 1 lb., 0.7 oz. wildflower honey from Georgia Honey Farm, not caramelized.
  • untreated tap water to just over 1 gallon.
  • 1 tsp. Fermaid K.
  • ½ packet Lalvin 71B-1122 wine yeast, rehydrated in ½ cup untreated tap water at 100℉.

Procedure

Heated two pounds of honey in the Crock-Pot for three and a half hours. Poured in the just-over-a-pound of wildflower honey. Poured into a carboy with some water already in it, then added Fermaid K, then water to just over a gallon. Agitated thoroughly but intermittently, then pitched the yeast.

Did not measure the gravity here: there was so much undissolved honey stuck to the bottom of the carboy that it would have been pointless.

Brew date: 31 March 2020.
Original gravity: ??? .
Bottling date: 26 October 2020
Final gravity: Not measured (hydrometer broke!)
Estimated ABV: Unknown!

Yield:

  • 3 x 650mL beer bottles.
  • 1 x 500mL wine bottle.
  • 1 x 750mL wine bottle.
  • 1 x 750mL mead bottle.

Total: About 3450mL, or just over a gallon.

Observations

  • 2020-10-26: Bottled. Could not measure the final gravity: I broke the hydrometer! Oh well, didn't measure starting gravity, either. Yeesh.