{"id":8,"date":"2007-05-05T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/05\/not-just-tomatoes-and-rhubarb-either\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:45:55","slug":"not-just-tomatoes-and-rhubarb-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/05\/not-just-tomatoes-and-rhubarb-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Tomatoes And Rhubarb Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make a simple mead, dilute honey with water and ferment. You can mix this up in all sorts of ways by adding different ingredients; like fruit, herbs, and vegetables; varying the final alcohol, sweetness, and acidity; and by using different kinds of honey.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard about mead and read about mead, but I didn&#8217;t know what it tasted like. It turns out that there are commercial meads available at retail, but I couldn&#8217;t find any at the time. So four years ago I started making my own. The idea was to find out &#8220;what mead tastes like,&#8221; and that meant sticking to simple dry meads. Once I made a few good examples of a plain dry mead, I could decide if I liked it or not. Well I do, and I&#8217;ve been trying out different fruit additions. In fact, I just bottled a cherry mead yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does mead taste like? I can&#8217;t tell you. No really, have you ever tried to describe what vanilla tastes like? It&#8217;s used in all sorts of things and we all know what it tastes like, but how exactly would you put that into words? I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ll have to buy a commercial mead or make your own. The good news is: it&#8217;s easy to make, and tomorrow I&#8217;ll post a simple recipe for a plain mead to get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a simple mead, dilute honey with water and ferment. You can mix this up in all sorts of ways by adding different ingredients; like fruit, herbs, and vegetables; varying the final alcohol, sweetness, and acidity; and by using different kinds of honey. I had heard about mead and read about mead, but I [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mead"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}