My very first brew in our new home in Minnesota uses a mountain wildflower honey we picked up in beautiful Durango, Colorado. I tried a staggered nutrient addition for batches 213 through 215, but as usual, I did the additions too late and missed at least one. I wound up naming this batch Sto'Vo'Kor after the Klingon afterlife; because it's fragrant and spectacular, because western Colorado is about as close to paradise as I've found on this planet, and because I simply could not think of a goddamn name.

Ingredients in this batch

  • 5 lbs Pure Mountain Wildflower honey from Honeyville in Durango, CO
  • 2 g Fermaid K each at about 48 and 96 hours
  • 3 g Fermaid O
  • 1/2 pack Lalvin 71B-1122

Process

Tossed everything in a 2-gallon bucket, agitated, and pitched. SG was 1.102. I racked this batch in April or so to help it clarify.

I bottled this batch on 7/27/21. Despite being one of the driest I've ever made at 0.991 FG and a 14.6% ABV, the honey in this remains fragrant, complex, and amazing. I should have racked one more time, but eh.