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Ancient: Very good flavor profile for my spiced mead. I removed the star anise after 1/4 of a star anise still left too much of the licorice flavor. I have tweaked this recipe a ton, and think this is great. The graham crackers had too much of a bready taste initially, but after about 3-4 months of aging that bread taste went away and faded into a very nice soft graham cracker taste that I was looking for. So if you do graham crackers, let it age a few months for maximum tastiness!

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08SEP2021: ADDED 12LB WILDFLOWER HONEY TO 6.5 GALLON FERMONSTER. PREPPED K1-V1116 YEAST WITH 5G OF GOFERM. ADDING 15G OF FERMAID O FRONT LOADING, NOT USING TOSNA, THEN ADDING 5G ON 7DAY OR 1/3 SUGAR BREAK. SUFITING THE WATER FROM THE FRIDGE FILTER. GOING ALL TRADITIONAL AND DRY TO EXPERIMENT ON THE BACK END. SG: 1.085 OXYGENATED USING THE DRILL BIT. 09SEP2021: OXYGENATED VIA AIR STONE 15MIN 10SEP2021: OXYGENATED VIA AIR STONE 15MIN 11SEP2021: OXYGENATED AND DEGASSED WITH DRILL WAND 19SEP2021: SPLIT BATCH INTO 1-1 GALLON AND 1-5 GALLON BATCH IN POST FERMENTATION 1. 5 GALLON: ADDED 1/4 STAR ANISE, 2 CLOVE, 5 CINNAMON STICK, ALLSPICE FOR 72HRS TO FLAVOR TO ANCIENT 20OCT2021: BOTTLING ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 2. 1 GALLON: ADDED 3 CINNAMON STICKS, 4 WAFERS OF GRAHAM CRACKERS, ADDED HONEY TO 1.020G 20OCT2021: BOTTLING ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 22SEP2021: REMOVED SPICES+CRACKERS, ADDED 9G CLEARING AGENT, 3G MORE SORBATE WAITING FOR CLEARING AND MINOR AGING UNTIL BOTTLING