Recipe

Mountain Spice

Metheglin		 Mountain Spice label
Batch Number:
 020209a
Starting Gravity:
1.160
    Final Gravity: .995
Ingredients:
            
Fermentable 1:
 6# Orange Blossom Honey
Fermentable 2:
 5# Buckwheat Honey
Fermentable 3:
 1# Clover Honey
Flavoring 1:
 12 teabags Celestial Seasonings Mountain Chai Spice tea
Other 1:
 5 tsp yeast nutrient
Other 2:
  3 tsp acid blend (citric, malic and tartaric acids)
Other 3:
  1 tsp Irish Moss
Other 4:
  3/4 Cup corn sugar for priming
Yeast:
 White Laboratories WLP099 Platinum Series High Gravity Ale Yeast
Process:
  • Honey, yeast nutrient, acid blend and Irish Moss brought to a boil in 2 gallons water
  • Meanwhile, 1 quart of water brought to a boil and tea steeped for 15 minutes.
  • Immediately on boil, heat removed from must and tea added
  • Must cooled - water added to make 5 gallons
  • Yeast pitched
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    Notes:

    3 November 2002: Bottled.  The color is reddish-golden and very attractive.  The flavor is already well-developed, (due to the long secondary fermentation?) and only slightly sweet.  I primed with 3/4 Cup of corn sugar and bottled with crown caps for a sparkling mead.