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Something I put together for a label naming competition on facebook. I didnt win :(haha Didnt really fit the theme of comp anyway I just had fun making it.

Haha unfortunately not. Just commercial wines. Left in black shrink. Plan to fill all 130 on the left over the next 4 months though.

Joam about to be bottled. Slightly sampled allready lol

For the candy mead it is only a few months old so I dont know how much the flavours will separate, potentially ruining the candy flavour. Its a bit of everything mix. The candy smell came mostly from the 4 flavour frozen fruit I added. Tastes delicious right now though (except the standard...

Selection of meads and ciders. Plus my latest bottled Sweet candy mead which I named after the smell.

I was stoked when I found a commercial bottle that was over 13 years old the other day. Tasted delicious.

Indeed the spelling is off. Although a Moa label would be pretty cool as well. Shame about them and the Haast's Eagle. My simple and latest keeping in the same theme.

I decided to add canvas labels to the rest of the bottles. Not just the tags. Will write any info on the backs of the hanging tags. Leave the labels simple.

Do you mean mead only or have you never tried different yeasts before. I have never tested mead but with ciders it changes the flavour dramatically. Its an extremely important part of brewing.

More bottled tonight of an oaked traditional rewarewa mead. Playing with claudine hellmuth sticky back canvas and an ink pad to shade the edges. The canvas peels straight off. Has just the perfect amount of stickiness to stay put while not being a hassle. Can keep repositioning them as well when...

Joes Quick Grape and my dragon fruit mead. I have been doing a simple format tag for my corked bottles. Honeycomb holographic effect paper. Shiny so it looks faded in anything but the most angled photos. edit to add the final labels of the day. Getting late but I still think it looks ok even if...

Dragon Fruit Mead.

Ok yeah yours must be fast. I pm you that time to talk about it. It really is a fast honey. I'm impressed with the results an curious how this is going to turn out. Look forward to hearing about it. Mine was done in 8 or 9 but not clear. I have a 5l of it I Oaked and was impressed by the fact...

Im only a beginner but what is the reasoning for waiting 4 days before adding more fruit? I know that people wait for secondary to preserve flavour and aroma. But you are likely to be only maybe 1/3-1/2 of the way into fermentation at that point. Does it make a difference to the flavour? Or is...

Just put on 5L now with some fresh pressed cider. Ill probably regret putting on so little.

Got 15L of fresh pressed apple juice tonight and a few bags of feijoas given to me so im restricted by timing. I dont have anything spare to make the wine in right now so ill prepare the juice as above and get my cider on now. Then combine in three days once most the solids are racked off the...

Ill probably use the wine method for removing the feijoa juice without fermenting. Then either add to secondary or primary depending on what I happen to have available at the time. Got some fresh pressed cider brewing now so Im tempted to add some to make 5l and let it go again. The wine...

Yeah will give it a go cheers. Last 3 parts of my rewarewa mead now in 5l batches. Feijoa, traditional oaked and Blackberry plus a bunch of top up bottles once I rack the fruit off in a week or so. Need to go grab some more rewarewa this week to backsweeten with.

Just added Dragon fruit to secondary. Hopefully me trying to get enough flavour wont mean its to dark. The rewarewa mead I put in seems strong. never tried mead before but I assumed honey flavour wouldnt be so strong after some comments I have read. Not sure how to back sweeten for fear of...

You can always backsweeten if to dry and the bitterness etc is to forward? Mine is taking forever. Still steadily bubbling away 6 weeks in. Surely such a slow fermentation is a sign I will end up with a stressed hot mead when done.