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Welcome to the Mythic Mountian Monitor, the personal brew log (blog, get it?) of BrewDude. BrewDude lives in Aurora, CO and occasionally visits various brewing forums. BrewDude brews beer occasionally but finds his passion in mead.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Yeast has arrived

The yeast for my Beer Yeast Mead experiment came in today. I got 6 of the smaller Propagator packs of Wyeast 1056, one for each batch. I should be able to get this going tomorrow. Yay! The honeys I'll be using are:

Dark Wildflower
Orange Blossom
Raspberry
Avocado
Tupelo
Sage

When I went to pick up the yeast today, I noticed a couple of containers of honey on the front counter. One was sage, the other was Carrot Blossom. They were for tasting samples, so I did. The Carrot blossom is darker (not as dark as Avocado), rich and has a spiciness to it. Very interesting stuff.

Here's the cool part. As I was walking out, Steve (my go-to guy at the store) handed me a 3lb jar of the Carrot Blossom honey and packet of Safale US-05 and said, "make us a 1-gallon batch of mead with this?". How could I refuse?

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