1 gallon water
1.3lbs wildflower honey

01-31-07

Start with 1 gallon water in the pot. Heat on high to rolling boil.
Turn off heat. When boiling stops, stir in honey with sanitized spoon.

Covered and let cool for a while. Got impatient and put in sink with small amount of ice. Sat out for a long time, eventually got down to about 80.

Poured into bucket. Added 1/2 cup California ale yeast starter. Mixed with sanitized spoon. Decanted into jug and capped with airlock.

starting gravity: 1.046

02-22-07

Tasted the mead. Too sweet but fruity and delicous. Noticable carbonation when swished around.

03-01-07

Tasted it again. Pretty much just like before, no noticable change. Fermentation may have stopped.

03-12-07

Tasted again. Slightly bubblier, still too sweet. Agreed by all to be delicious.

04-12-07
Bottled. Added 1/8 of a priming sugar mixture with 1.5 cups corn sugar, 2 cups water, boiled. And half a teaspoon of Yeast Energizer.

Final gravity: 1.023