[Sca-cooks] Meadshtufff

[Michael Acord]

Two points:
    Those of us who do a fair amount of homebrewing use a dilute (1/4
cup to 1 gallon) of household bleach to sterilize the glassware, etc.,
that we use.
    If you are using fruit juice, you ARE making a cider.  MEAD is made
with honey, not fruit juice.
    Mike Acord

Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

> Dearly beloved...
>
> Upon following our very own Drakey's recommendation and suggestions, I
> started to brew my very first batch of cider last night.  Err, mead, that
> is <g>.  He suggested I sterilize everything by (and this is a direct
> quote):
> <<pour vodka over the plastic carboy and flame to sterilize >>
>
> And so with my eyebrows a little singed, and after going to retrieve a
> new
> plastic bucket, and the house still reeking of burnt plastic, I
> carried on.
>
> If that is how Drakey really does things (which he's actually denied), no
> wonders he's always hurtin' himself...
>
> On a more serious note, things are going nicely and I hope to be able to
> not poison myself too entirely much later on whenever it's ready.
>
> Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
> Clan of Odds
> Shire of Forth Castle
> Meridies
> mka
> Nicolas Steenhout
> "You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry
>
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