{"id":10,"date":"2007-05-07T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/a-simple-mead-care-and-feeding-of-your-yeast\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T13:20:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:20:49","slug":"a-simple-mead-care-and-feeding-of-your-yeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/a-simple-mead-care-and-feeding-of-your-yeast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Mead Recipe: Care and feeding of your yeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo of the fermenting mead that I wrote about yesterday (and started the day before on 5\/5\/07).<\/p>\n

\"After<\/p>\n

The yeast will do their work without much attention from me, but a daily stir can help. I sanitize a long stainless steel spoon by immersion in boiling water, dip it in cold water so it doesn’t shock the yeast, then give the whole thing a good stir.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/p>\n

By doing this, I’m trying to keep the yeast uniformly distributed. If I didn’t, the yeast might settle to to the bottom and go dormant before they consumed all the sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo of the fermenting mead that I wrote about yesterday (and started the day before on 5\/5\/07). The yeast will do their work without much attention from me, but a daily stir can help. I sanitize a long stainless steel spoon by immersion in boiling water, dip it in cold water so it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mead","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t