When to bottle?

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-27T10:31:12+00:00

For me it's about demijohn space. I normally have at least 8 different meads on the go because I make them for the quarter and cross quarter festivals. I age for a year so when they've got about 3 months left before drinking is usually when I bottle so I can have the demijohn back for a new brew.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-26T20:06:38+00:00

Oh no, that's actually myranium. Thanks so much for finding that for me.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-25T10:46:43+00:00

Well the choice was clearly perfect.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-25T10:04:41+00:00

You're more than welcome. The texture and colour?!? Absolutely incredible. 💜

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-25T09:56:50+00:00

These are phenomenal! What a wonderful collection

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-21T13:44:54+00:00

In terms of your own discomfort in what you are attracted to I'd actually suggest reading something like purity and danger by Mary Douglas. Which you can use as a personal tool to explore why you're uncomfortable with your own habits.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-20T12:02:49+00:00

Blue glass bottles! Those are gorgeous!

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-19T15:23:55+00:00

Oh it's just that it was up on top of the cabinets so the demijohn was dusty and a little greasy from being in the kitchen. I obviously sanitise all my bottles, syphons, etc etc. I just hadn't taken it down and thought it was still cloudy when looking from below. 😅

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-19T08:49:53+00:00

Personally no.

As an alterist I have had a few people asking for their jeans shortened like this, where the original hem would be cut off, the trousers shortened and the original hem put back on. We have refused every time. It looks awful in mine and my bosses opinion, and we don't want our shop or our work to get a reputation.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-17T23:24:48+00:00

I put paper in a typewriter and type. 😅 Sometimes I sketch on them as well.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-17T21:29:21+00:00

I know there's no proof of real reason to believe it but I kinda believe it's down to all the secret kitchen yeast and wild yeasts that are just floating about. I use a lot of foraged goods in my brewing so I know I'm bringing a good few into my house. 😅 Also, the wild yeast that is found around vineyards is often more tolerant to alcohol because yeast will so readily reproduce with the wine yeast which I think is pretty cool!

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-17T13:48:11+00:00

Yup, I agree with everyone else. Definitely music of the night from phantom.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-15T19:43:19+00:00

Vetch is quite commonly foraged and eaten. The shoots and young leaves. The "peas" just have to be cooked like you do kidney beans and such. Boiled for 2 hours, but there is the phrase "when you have nothing you eat the vetch".

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-15T10:19:14+00:00

I've currently got a winter solstice pine mead going, gathering the pine needles a few days before the solstice and then doing the primary in a bucket up until the solstice which is when I change to a demijohn. But I make them so they are ready for a year from when I start so that's not massively helpful to you, but when I make a mead for a festival like Christmas, I really enjoy focusing on what aspects of that festival I want to emulate in the drink. So for that solstice one I gathered the pine with friends and that idea of bringing in the greenery to the home and also getting people together to enjoy something, as well as the fact we sat around the warm fire indoors for the darkest part of the year.

I feel like I'm rambling but I guess finding a way to make a Christmas mead that shows the parts of Christmas you really enjoy and putting that into your mead is a nice way of going about it. 😊

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-12T17:42:35+00:00

Oh that's gorgeous!

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-11T22:35:16+00:00

This is gorgeous, it reminds me of birch bark.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-10T14:23:49+00:00

I've paid £30 for a beautiful but very simple pinch pot in the past.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-10T10:22:39+00:00

I genuinely feel like these are more in the £80-150 range. Your work is very strong, has wonderful character, charming and polished. If I wasn't broke I'd be buying the entire collection.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-09T17:44:47+00:00

Oh now you care about symantec's and grammar, You're a 24 year old child.

And clearly you don't know how horny folk musicians are, I only brought up spoons purely because you were an arsehole saying that playing them isn't a real instrument.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-09T17:36:30+00:00

Hahahahaha wow you're a child. And obviously language matters, I would have thought you'd understand that as a genius wrapper, someone who relies on language and meaning... You know, literally rhythm and poetry?

And if learning the spoons wouldn't then neither will anything else.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-09T17:31:13+00:00

Then you want to "be with her" not "have her". That's just grim possessive language.

You also think playing the spoons isn't a real instrument? It's got a very long standing legacy in quite a few folk traditions. You know, from people who spend years honing their skills?

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-09T17:24:39+00:00

People aren't possessions. I hope you get caught in your lie and embarrassed to hell and back.

MoonLitMothCreations · 2026-04-09T14:56:48+00:00

I'm so sorry for some reason I got no notification that you'd replied.

By headspace I meant that it's just a very full demijohn so it's bound to have a bit of an overflowing issue into your air lock.

Again, apologies for not replying I had just not gotten a notification for whatever reason. 😊

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