can be recreated by simply charring a piece of white oak and putting it into a mason jar
filled with moonshine. Over time the moonshine will age, turn color, and become a very
basic whiskey.
MEADE RECIPE
Mead, also called honey wine, is produced by fermenting a solution of honey and water.
It can be regarded as the ancestor of all fermented drinks.
Ingredients
1 1/2 teaspoon of yeast
3.5 pounds of any kind of honey
2 teaspoons of lemon, lime, or orange juice
20 raisins
1 quarter teaspoon of cinnamon
1 whole clove
1 gallon pot Funnel
Some coffee filters
2 sterilized milk jugs of 1 gallon each
Sterilized glass bottles
RECIPES
Pour 10 cups of water into the 1 gallon pot.
Add all of your ingredients into the water-filled pot.
Turn the stove on warm and slowly stir the mixture to dissolve everything together.
Once dissolved funnel it into the 1 gallon milk jug.
Fill the rest of the jug up with warm water, leaving 2 inches of space at the top.
Let the mixture reach between 60° and 80° Fahrenheit. At that temperature, shake the jug
to aerate the mixture. Pour in 1 teaspoon of yeast.
The mix will start to bubble. The fermentation has started. Put on the jug that has the
poked holes.
Put this jug in a warm, dark place.
Wrap a towel around the jug to keep it warm and put the jug in a warm dark place.
Every day for one week swirl the jug gently.
Elapsed the week, open the jug, put the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of yeast and the pocked