# Mead batch 1
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## Materials & Notes
First try, using included materials with mead making kit.
* 1 gallon carboy
* D-47 yeast
  * Added to must directly as directed by kit, contrary to technical information from the yeast vendor. Perhaps this is okay since our must is entirely liquid.
  * shook into the must to get it off the walls, we should be more careful next time and allow it to sit on the foam?
* Brita filtered tap-water
* 1Kg BeeMaid pasteurized honey, unmeasured - trusted bottle.

## Retrospective summary
* More carefully add yeast, perhaps with a secondary dry-material funnel.
* Air-lock must be filled with sanitization fluid or a strong liquor, not water.

## Day 1 - 2023-11-19
* 22C at the start
* airlock puked

## Day 2 - 2023-11-20
* Yeast looks lively, some darker brown mass on foam, we can fill below the 1gallon line next time - it's not a problem during primary fermentation.
* Degassed and fed, looking quite healthy and with no darker brown mass.  Sprayed on ceiling as warned...
* Tasted the foam, tasted like slightly strange honey.
* Refilled air-lock with sanitizer.

## Day 5 - 2023-11-21
* Feeding day.
* Degassing was easier, no eruptions of any sort
* Placed in closet for continued primary fermentation & bulk aging.

## Day 5 - 2023-11-27
* Clarifying slowly, not much gas anymore

## Day 23 - 2023-12-12
* Bottling day.
* Produced bottles: 7
  * immediately broke the first bottle, no label.
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