| Mead |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
Before I broke my wrist I started a batch of mead. Honey wine. Liquid gold.
After I got my cast off I started knitting for the physical therapy.
I started knitting bottle cozies for when I eventually bottled the mead.
It was while knitting one of those cozies that I noticed that one of the yarn combinations I was using would be so much cooler as a thong. Thats about the time my life changed and I started using my powers for evil.
But enough about that
( Today I bottled the mead. 20 bottles of 13% ABV honey wine. Big pictures )
I can't wait to start handing this stuff out. |
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[Jun. 1st, 2009|12:08 am] |
 | In the picture on the left is a partial bottle of mead that a friend made. When he made it there was some honey sweetness in it 6 months later when he handed it to me. Four months since then it has finished fermenting in the bottle (woops on his part) and has some lighter fluid traits now. Good stuff if your are drinking one shot at a time.
Second up we have a wine bottle cozy and some ginger wine. Not as lacy as I wanted it but happy with the results. I have a mead I am making and I am going to make some much brighter cozies for those bottles. This cozy will also work on 750 ml bottles of beer so I can see some use for this as a holder of Unibroue, Allagash and Avery bottles in the very near future.
The ginger wine is everything you always wanted in a ginger ale but is not carbonated, is 13% ABV and reminds me a lot of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster but with ginger instead of lemon. Good stuff in moderation.
The last bottle is the only crappy Carmenere wine I have ever had. So its slowly turning into vinegar where it will serve some useful function in its all too long life. |
I made some Guinness today. Made some whipped cream for berries and corn bread desert. Tasty day.
Did a force killing of the yeast in the mead I am making. Now to remove all the yeast, spike it with some saffron and bottle it. Shouldn't take more than a month or two :)
wine cozy, basic pattern idea from book "one skein wonders". a few alterations, using two yarns knit together. cascade yarns baby alpaca chunky for body and rowan kidsilk aura (75% kid mohair, 25% silk) for some fuzzy quality to it. less than one skein of each. |
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