Four Good Dogs
Meadmaking, cooking, and building things worth finishing.
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building nakomi
Introducing and the Building of Nakomi
Meet my co-brewer and co-author: an AI assistant I built from a friend's field guide, who now logs my mead batches, drafts these posts, and occasionally talks me off a ledge.
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meadmaking
Batch One: Week One
Seven days of fermentation: a foam cap, a nutrient schedule, two oak cubes, one silent airlock that nearly fooled me, and a first taste at 1.030.
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meadmaking
Batch One: Brew Day
My first mead batch: three pounds of Georgia wildflower honey, a packet of 71B, and a gravity reading I had to argue with before I believed it.