The didn’t want my water bottle mead in r/mead so I’m here to show my creation Experiment

This is my water bottle mead that I started making yesterday in my garage

Before I hear about ventilation I got some holes in the cap and it’s worked out fine so far I was able to leave it over night and it still had no bottle pressure

The recipe so far was (and there’s no exact measurements) 1/3 of the bottle honey 1/3 of the bottle cranberry and the rest water and 1 packet bread yeast

Also instead of taking a pic from this morning I used the original one I took on the mead Reddit page lol and I’m also lazy

My idea for how long to keep it in there was ranging from 8 days and today would be 2/8 and I’m excited to see my finished product

282 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

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u/JiffDahmer Sep 22 '24

I like the mead sub; they've helped me out, but they can be no fun sometimes.

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u/strog91 Sep 22 '24

Great place to lurk and learn, but I avoid posting there because the users are mostly jerks

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u/loptopandbingo Sep 22 '24

I don't even drink anymore but I still love coming to this prisonhooch sub. It's fun as shit to see what you guys are doing, and the mead and homebrewing subs are full of purists who seem like they all wake up angry while yall are just "fuck it, we ball"

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u/AnchoviePopcorn Sep 22 '24

There’s a mead guy on instagram who is 100% a hooch guy. Everything he does is an abomination of a science experiment.

@goldenhivemead

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

I’ve seen that and I love it

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u/slavstyle95 Sep 23 '24

I always comment r/prisonhooch enthusiast every time I see one of his videos on IG

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u/Outrageous-Panda-134 Sep 23 '24

Was he the one that made the Mountain Dew mead?

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u/strog91 Sep 22 '24

I think r/mead attracts a particular kind of person… Someone who: 1. Doesn’t drink alcohol unless it’s sweet 2. Likes the idea of mead because it’s what people drink in Vikings and Game of Thrones and Dungeons & Dragons 3. Is a redditor

And for whatever reason people at the center of that Venn diagram tend to be obsessive assholes.

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u/YesWomansLand1 Sep 22 '24

I can't fucking stand sweet alcohol.

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u/funkmasterowl2000 Sep 22 '24

I swing in roundabouts when it comes to sweet stuff. Made some limoncello this summer which is very sweet, but the 95 abv Polish spirit I used to extract the lemon oils from the peel offsets it nicely.

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u/YesWomansLand1 Sep 22 '24

I need the alcohol to punch me in the face so I don't end up drinking too much. Refrigerated vanilla vodka goes down way too easy even straight.

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u/Super-Promotion-8499 Sep 23 '24

Damn straight we ball

u/hiccupsstacatto Sep 22 '24

We want your water bottle mead

u/Shlomo_Sasquatch Sep 22 '24

One of us!

u/larry-leisure Sep 22 '24

Wow this brings back memories of middle school.

u/Zazura Sep 22 '24

Looks great 👍

u/TrinityCodex Sep 22 '24

you got this package from amazon

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

Actually I got it at Costco 🤣

u/Bladestorm_ Sep 22 '24

We appreciate the chaos

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

If it can get me drunk it’s good enough for me

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u/liluzinaked Sep 26 '24

a water bottles worth of hooch most certainly won't get you drunk

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u/Em1z1n Sep 27 '24

Enough if it will

u/SegaGuy1983 Sep 22 '24

Nobody was being rude to you. They just advised an airlock so you could have better tasting stuff.

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

Didn’t say they were rude just not as welcoming lol

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u/SegaGuy1983 Sep 22 '24

The water bottle stuff is a really good way
to experiment and get better. Want to know how apple juice and earl gray taste mixed together? Don’t want to blow a bunch of money on an experimental combination? Keep doing the water bottle stuff.

Also, apple juice and Earl Gray is a terrible combination.

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

An airlock doesn't improve taste It lowers the probability of contamination which could ruin it

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u/SegaGuy1983 Sep 22 '24

Contaminated mead with mold is going to taste bad. An airlock would prevent contamination as you said, which also improves the flavor of the mead.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Don't drink anything that has had mold, that's very very dangerous, I meant that bacteria and other yeasts can get in and make it taste shit, or if mold gets in dangerous to drink

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u/SegaGuy1983 Sep 22 '24

Exactly. So why did you take issue with my saying that an airlock would provide a tastier mead? Of course it keeps out mold, but I didn’t want to spend five or six paragraphs explaining the benefits of an airlock when they probably already knew what it was.

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

I did add an airlock btw

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Because the airlock doesn't make it tastier, just lowers the risk of anything ruining it, it will be equally as tasty with or without it if nothing gets in

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u/SegaGuy1983 Sep 22 '24

You drink some mead with mold floating over the top of it and tell me it tastes just as good.

u/whiskey_lover7 Sep 22 '24

I'm actually pretty active on both subreddits. And I like both, but they are definitely very different

u/Marsphse Sep 22 '24

you are safe here

u/Resist_Jealous Sep 23 '24

Welcome home.

u/karateninjazombie Sep 22 '24

r/mead is just a bunch of stuck up asshats. Every time I've had an interaction with someone there they have been a cunt.

Their wiki is useful. But I'd avoid conversing with them and just observe for ideas and info at most.

u/OldGardenGnome Sep 22 '24

Hey man, it's not your fault they don't understand us, you keep on crafting that taboo ragu brother

u/MaddeningAscentII Sep 22 '24

Welcome, friend.

u/froggythefish Sep 23 '24

Safety box, smart

u/MatiX_1234 Sep 22 '24

Just make sure to ventilate the garage. 2 people died in Poland of co2 poisoning while making mash for hooch in their garage. The bottle exploding isn’t as big of a worry as your lungs potentially failing

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u/Em1z1n Sep 22 '24

Good looking out