{"id":1301,"date":"2010-10-28T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2010-10-28T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T17:25:58","slug":"brewer-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/1301\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewer Apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year was my first year brewing. I made two batches of hard cider – about 6 gallons in total. Jill and I and friends have almost finished the first batch. It was a bit yeasty tasting but most people like it ok. The second batch is currently aging. I used no store-bought yeast but let the natural yeast take over for that batch.<\/p>\n

Finally, my first batch of mead was just finished. Mead is a honey-based fermented drink that is apparently thousands of years old. You can add different things to it like fruit or spices, but the basic ingredients are honey, water, and yeast.<\/p>\n

My first recipe<\/a> used grape juice, honey, water, yeast, and a couple preservatives to stop fermentation. It was a learning process but fortunately the final product came out delicious. It’s a bit more alcoholic than cider and tastes sort of like a sweet wine. Jill and I had some last night, and she liked it a lot! I’ll be making more of this in the future I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year was my first year brewing. I made two batches of hard cider – about 6 gallons in total. Jill and I and friends have almost finished the first batch. It was a bit yeasty tasting but most people like it ok. The second batch is currently aging. I used no store-bought yeast but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}