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U2M - Midwinter Metheglyn

Brewed: December 26, 1994   Bottled: June 8, 1995

A methyglyn made with Celestial Seasonings Harvest Spice tea. Very nice.

Ingredients:

• 10 pounds raw alfalfa honey from Terry Dorsey
• 4 t acid blend
• 5 t yeast nutrient
• Eldorado Springs bottled water - enough for 5 gallons
• 10 gm Lalvin Wine Yeast EC1118 - prestarted
• tea, 8 Celestial Seasonings Harvest Spice tea bags steeped in 2 quarts H2O
• 3/4 cup corn sugar

Heat honey with water to almost boiling. Add acid blend and yeast nutrient. Skim scum, not much to skim. Keep hot for about 15 minutes to pasturize. Cool and pour into carboy. Add tea and water to make 5 gallons. SG 1.075 @ 78 F. Pitch yeast at 78 F. Stir and store with bubble lock.

February 23, 1995 - Racked.
June 8, 1995 - Corn sugar boiled for 10 minutes with 1 cup Eldorado Springs water. Mead and sugar mixed together in a plastic pail and bottled.

Last update February 13, 2005.

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