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I am both horrified and intrigued. How long before you can taste?
I usually give a full month before bottling and then a week or two before drinking.
@remindme@mstdn.social 2 months
This looks either tasty or abhorrent. What's the recipe?
Bought some gatorade powder you can see in the photo. The recommended serving is 4 tablespoons for 750 mL of gatorade. I used around half of that, which is 10 spoons for 4 L (orange) and 10 spoons for 3 L (blue). ChatGPT recommended a quarter, but I was afraid it wouldn't taste anything. I'm also pretty confident he never tried it anyway, so who cares about the computer's opinion. Then it's a standard 1 kg of honey each and EC-1118 yeast with some nutrient for the road (I realize now that I might have put way too much of it, but I think they'll manage).
Both were extremely sweet before the fermentation. I have doubts about the blue one, but high hopes for the orange one (this is no political statement btw). I actually have no idea how it will come out, but right now they're both bubbling nicely.
I'll be curious how it turns out.
I've never made mead, so I'm intrigued.
Have you looked into "skeeter pee" recipe? I've got ~22L of that fermenting currently.
Never heard of it, but it sounds fun.
I like mead because you can turn pretty much any drink into alcohol with it and the only specialized ingredient you need is yeast and sometimes nutrients. Everything else can be found at the grocery store. Turned some sodas (mountain dew being a classic, but also root beer), and fruit juices into mead, with mostly good results. Whereas ciders and wine requires the right kind of fruits, and I'm sure I'll never do better than what is already on the market. The future is in weird drinks.
But lemonade wine seems nice, maybe I'll try it next.
Actually, due to recent events I opened some orange bottles I had left and I was surprised with how the taste changed. I couldn't discern the gatorade anymore. It is good, maybe better in some way, but I have a really hard time describing it. I really need to be more patient with what I brew.
I feel like I'd rather just try this using table sugar instead of (probably) throwing honey down the drain.
Have you had a chance to taste it yet? Is it any good?
I think the blue one might have turned bad (probably my fault). It tastes like bacteria or something. The drink turned a weird green that can either look like an especially healthy potion, or some really chemical poison. (blue gatorade and yellow honey makes that, apparently)
The orange one is not so bad, but nothing really good either. Right after bottling, I still discerned the chemical orange flavour, which was kind of nice, but after a few weeks of aging in bottles, I have a hard time telling what it tastes exactly. I can tell it's gatorade-based, but without a particular, recognizable gatorade flavor. The color is nice, though. It kept the clear, distinguishable orange from the gatorade. Just a bit darker.
Taste-wise, it's definitively the worst batch I've made so far. Otherwise, I didn't get any headache from it and the orange one is still drinkable. 4/10 because it's got electrolytes.
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