Batches 214 and 215 use honeys from Tennessee acquired on our pre-pandemic road trip to the East Coast. I'm naming them after my defining apocalypse song, Frank Turner and Jon Snodgrass's The Fleas:

In trying to find a website for this honey farm, all I'm getting is articles about a lawsuit alleging that their honey uses a bunch of crappy filler products. Hooray.

Ingredients in this batch

  • 3 lbs Tennessee mountain honey from Strange Honey Farm in Del Rio, TN
  • 1 g Fermaid K each at about 48 and 96 hours
  • 1.5 g Fermaid O
  • 1/4 pack Lalvin 71B-1122

Process

Tossed everything in a 2-gallon bucket, agitated, and pitched. SG was 1.078. I racked this batch in April or so to help it clarify.

I bottled this batch on 8/19/21. I didn't take a final gravity reading because this series of varietal batches using 1122 all come out around 12% ABV. Like all of them, Batch 214 fermented bone dry, and it didn't have a lot of complexity at bottling.