{"id":933,"date":"2024-05-24T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=933"},"modified":"2024-05-24T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:58:11","slug":"mrm-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"MRM ~ Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F933&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F933&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-440\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MattRiceMead-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/11\/24 (Day 1)<\/strong><br \/>\n1 gallon recipe<br \/>\n2.11 lbs honey.\u00a0 I used several &#8220;leftover&#8221; honeys for this.<br \/>\n2 oz ginger.\u00a0 cut into slices<br \/>\n2 cinnamon sticks<br \/>\n1 Black Tea teabag<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp clove<br \/>\nLalvin QA23 yeast<br \/>\n1 Gallon bottled water<\/p>\n<p>I started by boiling the ginger, cinnamon and tea bag for 10 minutes in 1\/2 of the water.\u00a0 At the 10 minute mark I added the 1\/2 tsp clove (ground) and boiled for 5 more minutes. While that was boiling I re-hydrated the yeast with some warm honey water that was 92 degrees.\u00a0 Mixed all the honey and rest of cold water in the carboy and stirred vigorously.\u00a0 I added the warm tea mixture to include the ginger and cinnamon sticks.\u00a0 I pitched the yeast at 98 degrees.\u00a0 Topped it with an airlock and now we let that ferment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting gravity = 1.076<\/strong> or about 10% ABV if it goes dry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/12\/24 (Day 2)<\/strong><br \/>\n1 tsp Fermaid-O for nutrient<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/14\/24 (Day 4)<\/strong><br \/>\nI had to remove the ginger.\u00a0 It was to overpowering.\u00a0 I can always add more in secondary.<br \/>\n1 tsp Fermaid-O<br \/>\n<strong>S.G. = 1.042<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5\/1\/24 (Day 21)<\/strong><br \/>\nI racked into clean carboy.\u00a0 S.G. = 1.000.\u00a0 I <strong>stabilized<\/strong> with Sorbate\/Metabisulfite.\u00a0 I added 1\/4 tsp tannin.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s very gingery.\u00a0 Not sure I&#8217;ll do much more to this than back sweeten.\u00a0<strong> ABV = 10%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5\/14\/24 (Day 34)<\/strong><br \/>\nBottled this beast today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/11\/24 (Day 1) 1 gallon recipe 2.11 lbs honey.\u00a0 I used several &#8220;leftover&#8221; honeys for this. 2 oz ginger.\u00a0 cut into slices 2 cinnamon sticks 1 Black Tea teabag 1\/2 tsp clove Lalvin QA23 yeast 1 Gallon bottled water I started by boiling the ginger, cinnamon and tea bag for 10 minutes in 1\/2 of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MRM ~ Karma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}