The title may sound weird. I initially wrote it as “fuck over the billionaires”. But it is not only billionaires, but also multi-millionaires and people who think themselves hierarchically superior.
So:
- Are you doing something to fuck over “the powerful”? If so, what?
I want to get back into mead making. Crazy how fake most honey is, how do you manage? Do you just have to know a beekeeper?
Still ferments, I just use the cheapest stuff from Aldi because otherwise a gallon would cost me an absolute fortune to make. It would be nice to get into beekeeping to have my own source of honey but my garden is pretty small. Plus it looks like its quite a bit of money to spend on something when I don’t really have any idea what I am doing.
It does get expensive fast. My first attempt at mead was a 5 gallon batch (sack mead, targeting like 18%) with all orange blossom honey. I don’t even remember what it cost, but I totally failed.
Luckily I was able to salvage it by dumping it onto another ferment in progress, turning it into a cyser made with cosmic crisp apple juice. It was just rocket fuel in the end, though.
Can always distill rocket fuel though … So I hear.
I did that batch in a 54 litre demijohn. There was so much! You can be sure I tried ice distilling some of it, but it was such a lot of work. Tasty though.
I like my glass demijohns but the volume of some of the plastic ones is kinda tempting sometimes. There was a guy on reddit that used a 100L water butt for fermenting in
I had to give away my prized glass when I moved from the states to the UK, I miss them. Definitely going to get more when I can finally put down roots. Plastic is certainly doable, it just isn’t as pleasing.
Ahh shame to lose glass. Currently got 5x5L glass demijohns. Should probably start another mead soon, might be worth getting more bottles sometime too. Its odd, buying 20 cans seems normal, but buying 20 (more) bottles feels excessive.
I don’t NEED more, but it would mean that the mead can age for longer by rotating through a larger volume.
It’s true about buying bottles in volume. I eventually just ordered boxes of bottled beer from Ocado to avoid having to haul them home myself.