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#257721 - 02/20/12 02:10 PM JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond
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Attack for the Oxygen Stone "Bloody Good Mead"

Obviously something needs to go wrong apparently everytime I make anything. Luckily enough everything has tasted fine so what the hell.

I decide to tackle mead due to the fact I'm tired of seeing this 1 gal container sitting around doing nothing and the mrs. asking me if I'm ever going to do something with it (ie: throw it out)

I decide to buy a cosplay warhammer off ebay and make some mead (I'm still working on growing out the massive beard)



yea yea yea it's not exactly 1 gallon but damn close, it's that bottle they use for that gross grocery store sangria with the hallucinating colors and nasty after taste.

chop chop!





Look what I just bought!



Why is the tube diameter so much smaller then the airstone?!?! Screw it I'll push it in really hard (I've said the same thing to the wife)

ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG!



hand slips off and blood is everywhere, in the bottle, on the fruit, I think I've severed an artery! ok maybe it wasn't that bad, it was more of a scrape that didn't even bleed a while.. I had to wait a minute to even get a picture of it but I thought it would make for a good story.



ZOOOOOOOOOOM

Shit... I better move it to the sink, it's foaming everywhere and Mrs is about to wake up




Ta Daaaaa





I put a pack of MrBeer yeast i had in there and topped it off with some bread yeast this is a very sloppy mix but if it turns out bad after a year I'll just bash it with my War Hammer.
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#257740 - 02/20/12 04:08 PM Re: JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond [Re: USMCMatt]
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I am pretty sure the yeasts will poop out pretty quick.
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#257769 - 02/20/12 06:27 PM Re: JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond [Re: The Beer Warrior]
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Did you just follow the recipe for Joe's Ancient Orange Mead, with the exception of the addition of the Mr. Beer yeast?
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#257805 - 02/20/12 08:17 PM Re: JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond [Re: Jon_TWR]
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I like the pics!
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#257819 - 02/20/12 09:02 PM Re: JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond [Re: The_Professor]
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pics and back story are great, all of us have had those days
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#257837 - 02/20/12 09:56 PM Re: JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond [Re: BEERKEEPER]
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just for future reference...if you warm up the hose it will get bigger and make it easier to get it on....... yep that came out at dirty as I thought it would...lol
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#257883 - 02/21/12 10:52 AM Re: JAOM first mead or attack of the blood diamond [Re: Stinkfist]
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Yeah but there's a fair amount of bread yeast in there too, we'll see how it shakes out.

Thanks Stinkfist, haha I'll warm up the hose before jamming it in next time
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