Greetings, one and all! I'm a budding mead-maker, and I have a request for assistance.
I'm in the Society for Creative Anachronism (I'm certain some of you know what that is, for those of you who don't, we're a bunch of crazy weirdos who go off and pretend we live in the middle ages for a weekend.) and I've gotten myself geared up to enter a brewing contest. Well, my mead will be ready for said contest this weekend, and the event is next weekend, but I'm in a bit of a pickle. One of the "extra credit" bits of the judging is documentation on the historical nature of your recipe. Now, my recipe is about as dirt-stupid-simple as they come, so I can't imagine it being anything but historically accurate... but I don't know exactly what, where, when, etc. I was hoping to plumb the depths of knowledge here. My recipe is:
1 gallon honey
4 gallons water
1 packet champagne yeast
Boil the honey into the water, dump it into the carboy, pour in the yeast, and leave it set for about 6 months. Rack halfway through.
See? Told ya it was simple. But for the life of me, I'm lost as to where to begin with that documentation. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm in the Society for Creative Anachronism (I'm certain some of you know what that is, for those of you who don't, we're a bunch of crazy weirdos who go off and pretend we live in the middle ages for a weekend.) and I've gotten myself geared up to enter a brewing contest. Well, my mead will be ready for said contest this weekend, and the event is next weekend, but I'm in a bit of a pickle. One of the "extra credit" bits of the judging is documentation on the historical nature of your recipe. Now, my recipe is about as dirt-stupid-simple as they come, so I can't imagine it being anything but historically accurate... but I don't know exactly what, where, when, etc. I was hoping to plumb the depths of knowledge here. My recipe is:
1 gallon honey
4 gallons water
1 packet champagne yeast
Boil the honey into the water, dump it into the carboy, pour in the yeast, and leave it set for about 6 months. Rack halfway through.
See? Told ya it was simple. But for the life of me, I'm lost as to where to begin with that documentation. Anyone have any ideas?