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New Shirt Dropped! I do love designing my own tiki style shirts. The bright colors are a warning, if you lick me you'll probably hallucinate for hours.
Vanilla mead in the pot, 8-ish weeks to run. Pitched it last night at 10:50 pm. Expect it to take about 8 weeks in the fermenter. Then going to do another 8 weeks in the carboy with another bean before moving it to cask for 6 months.
Cask prep basically just involves putting the dry cask in the sink, and filling it with hot water. Every couple of hours I need to top up the water. Why? Well, since the cask has been sitting dry, the wood has shrunk a little and this will make it swell up again and become water tight. If I just poured the mead into it, I'd lose half of it. It'll take a couple of days to seal.
It's been 2 months. Time for #meadWatch!
So here's a quick snapshot of the digital hydrometer's readings. The current SG is .997, which brings the ABV up to 9.32, which isn't the most potent mead I've done, but honestly, the goal isn't potency, it's drinkability.
Since this SG has been stable for 7 days now, I've started prepping the cask...
And, so you ask, why did I put the fermenter in a shiny shiny Faraday cage?
Welcome to the Cave. I found a grow tent that fits a small shelving unit that'll basically house a year's worth of mead at a time. I've dropped a TiltPi server into the walls and a UV-C air purifier inside to combat any mold. It's a mini clean room.