Hi all, I was pointed to this recipe by someone else on the internet and plan to start brewing it today after a lot of thought.
Here is my expected plan... I have a container that takes about 2 gallons, so I'm going to go with doubling the recipe.
- Boiled water to make 2 gallons
- Zest and juice of two oranges
- One stick of cinnamon (about 2-3 inches)
- 2 KG honey
- 2 packets of bread yeast, along with half a packet of ale yeast US-05 (tell me if this is a bad idea)
I plan to boil the water, cool it down to about 150F and add the honey, then pitch the rehydrated yeast. Would it be bad to have two different strains of yeast in the must? Would they fight each other somehow? I'd like to add a bit of the ale yeast so the end product is not quite as sweet and so the fermentation goes quicker. US-05 alcohol tolerance is about 12%.