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All water filtered through the filter James sent me for my birthday.
Put 2.5 gallons in the fermenter
Put 1.5 gallons in a pot on the stove
Turned on the burner for 30 seconds, but quickly found that
heating the water was unnecessary. Stirred 17 lbs of honey into the
water in the pot. Added this must (minus a couple cups) to the
fermenter. Mixed 16 oz of nestle cocoa powder into this small
amount of must, and added that to the fermenter.
Rehydrated the yeast (5g of Red Star Premier Cuvee) in 1/4 cup
of ~100F water plus 5.5 grams of GoFerm. Let this sit for 15
minutes. Yeast slurry added to the fermenter, along with 5 grams of
fermaid K. Aerated like crazy.
OG measured at 1.120 (originally i got an OG of 1.124, so I
added a bit more filtered water).
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