a friend of mine told me about her friend i think from high school who was gay but not out, and he pretended for a while to have a girlfriend named Amanda who he would go see a lot, and they’d be all, come hang out with us and he’d be like sorry I’ve got a date with Amanda, and they were like when are we gonna meet this Amanda??? anyway he kept this up for like a year until he finally came out; and when his friends were like, “wait, what about Amanda?” he said, “IT’S A MAN, DUH.”
i have literally never admired anyone’s commitment to a joke more
Yeah…that went well. I shoulda squashed them first, because now they’re just floating at the top and not doing anything.
Tried squishing them against the glass, but they’re refusing to pop.
Sad blueberry honey experiment is probs just gonna wind up on toast and will not be spoken of ever again.
OH GOD IT’S BEGINNING TO FERMENT
I think I ruined a perfectly good jar of honey 😦
NO YOU STARTED A PERFECTLY GOOD BATCH OF MEAD.
Lean into it!
WHAT SHOULD I DO
add water?
(it’s prob .6-.75 lbs of honey, for the record)
OKAY SO
Get some more honey. I use 3 pounds for a batch of mead.
Take half a gallon of water. Heat it until just simmering, then remove from heat and stir in honey. Once it cools a bit sprinkle in…oh, in this case, maybe a teaspoon of yeast. White wine yeast works best but regular will work ok too.
Sterilize something to let it ferment in. A milk jug would work. Splash a little bleach in there, fill with water, let sit a bit, then wash out well.
Once fermenting vessel is sterilized, pour the honey/water/berries/yeast in. Take a balloon and stretch it over the top of the jug, and prick a pinhole in it. This will keep outside wild yeasts out but let out co2 as it ferments.
Leave it for a month or so.
Then, bottle and drink!
YIELD; 1 gallon of mead, or about 4 ½ 750 mL average size wine bottles.
You mean to tell me I only need a milk jug and a balloon to make mead?
knitting in the dark 