{"id":74,"date":"2007-07-26T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/cherry-mead-recipe-pressed\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T13:00:28","slug":"cherry-mead-recipe-pressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/cherry-mead-recipe-pressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Mead Recipe: Pressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/20070725 - pressing cherry mead.jpg\" alt=\"Homemade 3-bucket press, set on a wooden table and wooden blocks, drains into a 5-gallon carboy\" title=\"Pressing The Cherry Mead\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" \/>I didn&#8217;t intend to leave the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/cherry-mead-recipe\/\">cherry mead<\/a> on the skins for three weeks, but there are other wines to fuss over, meadmaking questions to ponder, and even unfermentable things that a winemaker must attend to. Yesterday I poured the mead, skins, pits, pulp and all, into my homemade 3-bucket press. A bucket drilled with holes, making it look like an oversized colander, holds the fruit. It fits inside another bucket which catches the wine and drains it through a spigot and tubing into a 5-gallon carboy. A third bucket, filled with water, fits into the one holding the fruit and squeezes out the wine. Not the most efficient press, but you can&#8217;t beat the price!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t intend to leave the cherry mead on the skins for three weeks, but there are other wines to fuss over, meadmaking questions to ponder, and even unfermentable things that a winemaker must attend to. Yesterday I poured the mead, skins, pits, pulp and all, into my homemade 3-bucket press. A bucket drilled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-equipment","category-mead","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}