For those of you unfamiliar, July has become a festival month of sorts for Loki. Sirius, the dog star, is known as Lokabrenna - Loki's torch or brand. Late July/August is when Sirius rises, and so many of us celebrate Himself in the dog days of summer.

Today I'm making Him this: 

It's not quite mead, but here in Florida, I have concerns about the heat messing up the fermentation process. We don't have basements, our ground isn't dirt so much as it is beach sand, so there's not really a dig down and find cool dirt to store things in. In Florida if you dig too deep you hit water. Seriously, I have white sand beneath my grass in my yard - it's the same stuff as the beach. Anyway, a local pal found an apiary right in our zip code, with fresh orange blossom honey, so I got a few pounds of it and we're experimenting. I'm in the cook down process right now, and it smells heavenly, and Loki's very excited.

I got the idea and recipe here: http://www.stormthecastle.com/mead/instant-mead-recipe.htm if you want to read more about the process. I know a lot of Loki's people are international and that particularly in larger cities, kitchen space and household storage is limited, so if you don't have room for pounds and pounds of honey and assorted home brewing paraphernalia, this recipe is a good compromise that gives Him delicious honeyed wine in smaller home made batches.