Meadowfoam Mead
Meadowfoam Traditional Mead Recipe. Let’s Brew a Meadowfoam Traditional Mead
The term “traditional mead” has come to mean, a basic mead of honey, water and yeast essentially. We like to make a traditional mead whenever we are trying out a new honey. Meadowfoam honey is unique, and rather pricey, but one of our viewers sent us some to try out. Wow, it’s so aromatic and flavorful! Makes a great mead. This fermentation tested us though, as it was a chaos monkey as Derica likes to say! Thanks Jesse!
Limnanthes douglasii is a species of annual flowering plant in the family Limnanthaceae (meadowfoam) commonly known as Douglas’ meadowfoam or poached egg plant. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in wet, grassy habitat, such as vernal pools and spring meadows. It can grow in poorly drained clay soils. The plant was collected by the Scottish explorer and botanist David Douglas, who worked on the west coast of America in the 1820s.
The plant usually bears white flowers with yellow centers, hence the name “poached egg plant”, but flower color can vary across subspecies. It is a popular ornamental plant. It attracts hoverflies and is pollinated by bees. It is self-seeding, even in a lawn.
Meadowfoam Traditional Mead Recipe
Ingredients
3 lbs (1.36 kg) Meadowfoam Honey: https://a.co/d/05KIn46B
1/2 teaspoon Fermaid O: https://amzn.to/4cw6sb4
96 oz (2.839 liters) Water
1/2 Packet 71B Yeast: https://amzn.to/4bHk6XH
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