I got back from the climbs early on Saturday so I thought that I'd occupy myself in another way - make some mead. Again this one is with the "solid" wildflower honey that Keith's mom produced, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to process it. Plan was to make three gallons.
I prepped the lavender by steaming 1 ounce in steamer and reserving the lavender liquid from steamer.
Boiled a couple of gallons of water plus yeast nutrient/acid blend. Chilled it down to 140 or so. Started adding the honey until the refractometer gave me the right reading. diluted to 3 gallons. Chilled to 75, added the lavender and its water, and voila! Throw in a carboy and pitched Lalvin 71B-1122.
Hydrometer read 1.103 at room temp. Much better! :-) Now I just hope that it ferments down.
If it doesn't turn out, at least the house smelled AMAZING for an afternoon.
Trip reports
Washington 
- Mt Baker (Easton Glacier; Jul 2004)
- The Brothers
- Chair Peak
- NE Buttress (Jan 2007)
- SE Gully (Feb 2006)
- NE Buttress (Jan 2007)
- Challenger/Luna cirque traverse (Jul 2007)
- Hannegan peak
- Easy peak
- Mt Challenger
- Luna peak
- Cloudy peak
- Colchuck peak (ski, May 2008)
- Columbia peak (July 2010)
- Copper Mtn (Aug 2007)
- Crystal lake basin traverse (ski; May 2008)
- Silver King
- Crystal peak
- Unnamed rocky prominence
- Chinook peak
- Mt. Dickerman
- Eldorado Mtn
- Eldorado glacier (Jul 2004)
- Isolation Traverse (Aug 2008)
- The Enchantments
- Enchantment Peak (Jul 2004)
- Little Anapurna (Jul 2004, Oct 2005)
- Esmeralda Pk (Sep 2004, Jun 2011)
- Granite Mtn (ski; Jan 2009)
- Hidden Lake Peak (ski; Jun 2009)
- Ingalls Peak (south; ski; Jun 2009)
- Isolation Traverse (Aug 2008)
- Colonial Peak
- Pyramid Peak
- Paul Bunyan's Stump
- Snowfield Peak
- The Coccyx
- Early Morning Spire
- Eldorado Mtn
- Kaleetan Pk (Ski; Feb 2009)
- Kendall Pk (Ski; Feb 2008)
- Kyes Pk (Jun 2009)
- Lichtenberg Mountain (ski, Jan 2010)
- Mt Maude (Sep 2009)
- McClellan Butte (Ski attempt; Mar 2008)
- Ptarmigan Traverse (Aug 2006)
- Magic Mtn
- Dome peak
- Magic Mtn
- Mt Pugh (Jul 2010)
- Mt Rainier (Ingraham direct; Jun 2007)
- Red Mtn (Ski; Jan 2009)
- Mt Redoubt (Aug 2009)
- Mt Roosevelt (Mar 2011)
- Sahali Mtn (Aug 2004)
- Silver Star (Jul 2011)
- Mt St Helens (May 2007)
- Mt Shuksan
- Sulphide glacier (Sept 2008)
- White Salmon glacier (May 2009; ski)
- Sloan Pk (Corkscrew; Jul 2009)
- Snoqualmie Pk
- Cave Ridge (Jun 2007)
- Phantom Falls (ski; Feb 2008)
- Slot Couloir (ski; Mar 2009)
- Mt Spickard (Aug 2009)
- Spider Gap / Buck creak pass (Sep 2006)
- Cloudy peak
- Mt Stuart (Sept 2008)
- The Tooth (June 2005)
- Mt Triumph (Aug 2010)
- Vesper N Face (Sep 2007)
- White Chuck Mtn (Aug 2010)
- Wright Mtn (Ski; Apr 2008)
- Mt Shasta (Apr 2009)
- John Muir Trail (Aug 2009)
- Mt Agassiz
- Gregory's Monument
- Mt Whitney
- Mt Meeker (Jun 2007)
- Grays and Torreys (Aug 2007)
- Cirque of the Towers (wind river range; July, 2008)
- Mt. Kilimanjaro (Jul 2006)
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