Dan's Meadery

I am a mead hobbyist with a background in biology. The thing that I enjoy most about mead-making is the way you can use the scientific method in conjunction with your creativity to produce something that is unique and delicious! LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Mead is an alcoholic beverage. Do not make or consume mead if you are under the age of alcohol consumption in your country. Do not consume mead if you are pregnant.

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stolen from r/beekeeping

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It’s always kind of funny when the Powerpuff Girls, in fanart, are drawn with fingers and noses and toes and stuff and it’s like…they legit don’t have those in canon. It’s not just a style choice, they actually don’t have fingers and noses.

I mean, apparently Buttercup just sticks her hand to things to pick them up (S03E29 Criss Cross Crisis)

And in Oops, I Did it Again (s06E04B) the girls, when made without Chemical X, come out “normal” and do have fingers, feet, noses, and normal faces.

So like…when everyone in the show calls them “bug-eyed freaks,” “pumpkin heads,” etc, they legit mean the girls have big round heads, giant eyeballs, and stump limbs.

I think it’s safe to say that the Powerpuff Girls are objectively horrifying. I want to see fanart of that.

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SWEET JESUS

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alright i realise im a little late to the party here but going back to how the girls are able to grip things despite not having fingers

at first i thought maybe they could have tiny hooks at the end of the stumps that would snag onto surfaces, similar to cats tongues ( and yeah alright spiderman ) but the issue is that they probably wouldnt be effective for smoother surfaces

they could also have wrinkled pads like geckos feet that could cling to smoother things no problem, but then the problem is maintaining enough suction to actually lift and carry an object

i fear the solution may be something even Worse

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this better not take any more wild turns

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The Mad Science of Fermentation's Funky Flavors

Fermented foods are products of a happy, scientific trial-­and-error process, and big-name chefs and home cooks alike are embracing this gr

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Making Mead At Home - An Incredibly Contentious Article

What follows is the most contentious article we've ever written. Don't believe us? Three brewing magazines rejected it on exactly those grou

This is a really great article written by one of my favorite meaderies. Something they say in the article directly contradicts what I have on my site: beginners should use yeast other than champagne yeast. While I have suggested that people start with champagne yeast so that they are guaranteed a functional product at the end, this article puts forth that you are going to be washing out a lot of flavor. Following their recommendation, I would suggest using a less alcohol-tolerant strain so that you maintain a good flavor in your first batch. If alcohol content is more important to you, still stick with the champagne yeast.

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Wild Yeast is Your Friend

A troubleshooting guide to fermenting mead with wild yeast. 

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Tasting at Moonlight Meadery in Londonderry, NH

As some of you may recall, this is my favorite commercial meadery. I had the opportunity to do a tasting there at the end of July. Here’s what they had to offer:

I starred the ones I tried which I liked. I also bought a bottle of Mesquite Blossom and one of Je T’aime. I’ll be coming back to this post to review everything I tried as soon as I get the time. In the meantime, head over to Moonlight Meadery for your own tasting!

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Recoil-operated’s $12 traditional mead:

So one of the most common things I see on my Mead posts is “I’d love to do that, but I don’t have the stuff”

We’ll sit down and buckle up. Because I’m about to show you how to make a $12.56 traditional mead.

Here’s the recipe:

1 gallon Deer Park/spring water. You don’t want distilled.

3 lb or 32 fluid ounces honey.

One package of yeast.

a party balloon.

The cost total is $13.49, but you only need one pack of yeast. So -$0.90.

Let’s begin:

Everything together on a clean work surface, you will need a clean glass. And while not entirely necessary, a measuring cup will be handy.

Pour a cup of water for yourself and drink it. Hydration is important. Also this will allow you headspace.

Remove about ehhhhh, a quart or so of water to drink later.

Trust me. You’re going to want it

Wash your drinking cup and mixing about a teaspoon of honey.

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You have two options for yeast, that bread yeast we bought, or professional brewer’s yeast.

They’re both the same price. You can get brewers yeast off of Amazon.

I already have brewer’s yeast, so I’m using brewer’s yeast

Stick that in that honey water.

Stick your honey in some hot water.

Go outside. Breath the free air. Know what it is… To truely live.

Enough of that bitch. Honey’s hot. Put it in the water.

Put the water in the honey too.

Shake the sin out of it.

Put that stuff back in the big bitch.

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Shake the sh*t outta it.

Hydrate yourself with the water you removed earlier.

Shank a balloon with a pin.

Add your yeasty honey water.

Balloon it.

Label it.

If your trad mead says anything racist, or anything positive about Hitler. Straighten that sh*t out.

And there you go. $12 (.56) traditional mead. Stick it somewhere dark and leave it alone for a while.

Shake the hell outta it once a day for the first four days. Then let it be until it’s clear.

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Update:

Boozification has begun.

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25/4/2018

my name is Jerk

and wen its spring

and cute fuzz beez

are hatchening

they are too new

to kno my trik

my nectar fake-

beez can not lik

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take a sip babes 🍺

the fruit gore looks FAR less evil now. i think the rudamel has grown out of its overflowing phase too

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i might add fruit to the new batch in secondary fermentation and try to get a feel of fruit in primary vs secondary… see what’s tastier…

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good and delicious raspberries get sentenced to the brew jug for fermentation

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I have been sharing more events and articles via Facebook lately.

Check out facebook.com/dansmeadery!

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How to help native bees! 🐝

Even a small backyard can provide safe, healthy habitat for bees so they can pollinate the flowers, crops, and trees that support life on earth.

Create a custom bee garden with wildflowers native specifically to your area:

Choose native wildflowers with blossoms of varying sizes and shapes in bee-friendly colors (blue, purple, violet, white, and yellow), and select plants with varied bloom times to support different bee species.

Plant in 3- to 4-foot-wide color blocks of the same species.

Keep your garden pesticide-free.

Mow meadow areas only once each year, when flowers are dead or dormant, and mow in a patch pattern, alternating the areas mowed each year.

Mow lawn areas with a high blade setting so native violets and clover can flourish.

Provide overwintering habitat for bees by allowing dead stems to stand in your gardens until plants begin to grow again in spring.

You can also provide nesting and egg-laying habitat for bees:

Leave an area of bare dirt where ground-nesting bees can tunnel.

Provide stem bundles of bamboo, teasel, or common reed as shelter for wood-nesting bees (mount the bundles firmly, facing the morning sun and sheltered from wind and rain under the eaves of a house or shed, and make fresh stem bundles each year).

Create the nooks and crannies favored by cavity-nesting bees with an easy do-it-yourself project—a bee block.

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Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots Into Bee Farms

"Work hard, stay bumble" is their nonprofit motto.

A pair of Detroit natives have decided to combat neighborhood blight in a pretty sweet way — by transforming abandoned vacant lots in their city into honeybee farms.

Detroit Hives, a nonprofit organization founded by Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey in 2017, purchases vacant properties and remodels them into fully functioning bee farms.

“These properties are left abandoned and serve as a dumping ground in most cases,”. “The area can be a breeding ground for environmental hazards, which creates a stigma around the city.”

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Apply for this internship!

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Does my devotional mead making make me a kitchen witch or a mead magician? A almeadchist?

Important questions, y'all.

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Looks like a cool recipe. A couple of notes from me:

1. If you are using real raw honey, the yeast is unnecessary unless you want to get to a high ABV. Raw honey contains dormant yeast particles. Pasteurized honey, on the other hand, has dead yeast particles which will be of no help.

2. Please airlock your vessel. This will help keep anything that isn't yeast (read: bacteria) from taking over your delicious product.