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+Orange Mead Moonshine Life Recipes

E-Rock's High Gravity Orange Mead
MOONSHINE LIFE GROUP

18 lbs. of honey
1 gallon of fresh squeezed orange juice
5 gallons of store bought water jugs (1 gallon each)
***Keep empty water jugs***high gravity yeast (one vial of white labs)
1 pack of yeast nutrient
6.5 gallon GLASS carboy (don't use plastic EVER)
1 plastic airlock and rubber cork 1 syphon (get one from a brew store)
1 orange home depot bucket (5 gallon)
1 large funnel

-In a medium stockpot (4 gallon) bring 2 gallons of water to 120 degrees. -Add honey SLOWLY
while stirring to completely dissolve
without burning -Once dissolved (takes about 15-20 minutes) cool to room temp and set aside
covered - In the 6.5 gallon glass carboy add your orange juice, yeast, yeast nutrient, then the
honey/water mix-
Add the rest of the water to carboy until almost full and shake vigorously for a few minutes -Seal
up the carboy with airlock and
cover so no light gets through to the mix in a room indoors that stays at a temperature between 70
and 80 degrees. -Wait 6-8 weeks -Using siphon, rack from the glass carboy to the bucket keeping
the carboy side of the syphon about an inch above the sediment. -Use funnel to pour mead into the
empty plastic water jugs one at a time from the
bucket and put your delicious mead in the fridge.
End result is a tasty sweet orange mead with an alcohol content of around 16%

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