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 dark wildflower 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 1.080. I racked this batch in April or so to help it clarify.

I bottled this batch on 8/19/21. Final gravity was 0.993 for a final ABV of 11.7%. While it's just as dry as its sibling batch 214, this one was a bit more complex and interesting at bottling.