Bluespark said:Do you have a recipe for that?
kevinstan said:I would be interested in a recipe as well if you would like to share. That sure does look good.
tom_gamer said:That last picture looks nasty! Lol
luda007 said:It's a blueberry mead.
In the bottles it doesn't look as clear as in the glass. It came out at 12.3% abv
Here are a couple of meads I started around Halloween (although not Halloween inspired). Nuted them today and I decided to take a picture for you guys. Descriptions for the more interested below.
Happy Holidays!
Starting from the left (percentages are current, not target):
Blueberry Pancake. 14.7% and still going. EC-1118. 12 lbs. Snowberry Honey. 3 lbs. Clover. I'm intending this to be a sack mead, adding a second addition of 2 lbs of blueberries once the yeast reach their peak (so they peter out with the sugars from the berries, while the alcohol essentially extracts the remaining blueberry essence from the blueberry puree) then backsweetening with Grade B maple syrup to 1.03. There is already 20 oz. of Anderson's Grade B maple syrup fermenting away inside. Delicious.
Raspberry Melomade. EC-1118. 13.3%. 8 lbs. Clover Honey. 3 cans Minute Maid lemonade concentrate, 16 oz. of raspberries in secondary. Fermentation has been slow due to the acidity of the lemonade, but she's still going. I will add 16 more oz of raspberries at the end of fermentation in the same fashion as the blueberry above, getting more of an extract than any further fermentation.
Mapfelwien. 71B-1122. 10.7%. 64 oz. Simply Apple Juice. 1.8 lbs. Snowberry Honey. 12 oz. Anderson's Grade B Maple Syrup. Experimental batch. For me, the jury is still out on my care for cysers, although I really would like to enjoy them. I'll probably bottle 2 bottles from the batch, then use the rest to top off the blueberry pancake before it's bottling to bring a hint of apple to the party.
Holy crap you buy the same honey as me lol. How do you like their snowberry? I have had their wildflower and clover and both are pretty good.
I buy mine in 5 gallon buckets at a time (that's 60# of honey)... :rockin: Typically great per pound pricing that way.
Holy crap you buy the same honey as me lol. How do you like their snowberry? I have had their wildflower and clover and both are pretty good.
Where do you find 5 gallon honey. The only semi affordable honey I seem to be able to find around here is the Costco 6# jugs of Sonora desert honey
Some spiced-orange mead (I won't call it a JAOM as I complicated the process quite a bit from the original recipe ). Back-sweetened to an SG of 1.021
The taste isn't quite perfect yet, and I think maybe it's the cloves I'm not liking (they are indeed "potent critters"). But it's still early days
DisturbdChemist said:I got a lemon/basil mead, cinnamon/ginger mead, lime/cilantro mead, blackberry/peach mead (just bottled) and in the middle a cider with brown sugar/honey/agave. Can't wait till these are ready
I got a lemon/basil mead, cinnamon/ginger mead, lime/cilantro mead, blackberry/peach mead (just bottled) and in the middle a cider with brown sugar/honey/agave. Can't wait till these are ready
DisturbdChemist said:I got a lemon/basil mead, cinnamon/ginger mead, lime/cilantro mead, blackberry/peach mead (just bottled) and in the middle a cider with brown sugar/honey/agave. Can't wait till these are ready
I hope that Agave isn't the kind that doesn't seem to fernent.
So when are you bringing over the b/p mead? I think my JAOM is almost done.
The maple I put together in 2011, bottled up the other day... I'll take a picture when I pour some into a glass and post that too. Smell was unreal when bottling it.
Frosted bottle? If so then nice!
Frosted bottle? If so then nice!
I know I should not lust after another meadmakers mead, but you kinda want to stroke it like it is a nylon on a great leg.
Reminds me of the Leg Lamp from the Christmas Story flick. That should be starting up soon.
ViralCoreX7F said:Here is my first two meads, a raspberry melomel and a strawberry melomel
Here is my first two meads, a raspberry melomel and a strawberry melomel
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