Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

mooney said:

Last of my first JAOM 4 years old
The mead has aged better than the label.

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How on earth did you wait that long?

1000ml blackberry purée, 1500ml fresh pressed cider apples, 500ml fresh pressed Asian pears, 13 pounds raw blackberry honey + 5 gallons H2O bubbling nicely away. Will let you know how it turns out.

Banana Spice Mead - Cheeky Monkey

My rosemary vanilla methegalin turned out spectacularly

Lemon Basil. This one took me a year to figure out. I kept it in a carboy in the downstairs fridge waiting for it to clear. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that it started to drop out so I hit it with some Sparkoloid and it cleared completely in a day. Time is my friend, it fixes even my worse screw ups. It's semi dry and nicely balanced.

First time posting a pic but here it is
Some Rasberry Basil i just bottled.

Cyser

My mixed berry cyser, bulk aging on medium toast French oak chips.
Sorry about the bad lighting

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After scrolling the pictures I have realized one thing, I am very thirsty for some mead. Thanks guys.

roachvaliek said:

My mixed berry cyser, bulk aging on medium toast French oak chips.
Sorry about the bad lighting

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I think it's beautiful.

roachvaliek said:

My mixed berry cyser, bulk aging on medium toast French oak chips.

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What are the mix?

Vrishnak said:

I think it's beautiful.

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Thanks, I'm pretty proud of it.

MarkKF said:

What are the mix?

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Mostly blueberry with a little blackberry and cranberry, as well.

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My triple berry melomel. Almost ready to borrow.

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Can I borrow some?

I made a version of this last year, it was very good!

I currently have 6 batches of mead on the go, x4 melomels and x2 plain.

All for my crew and friends at the Brixham Pirate Festival this May Day bank holiday.

Just held my first official tasting! Finger foods, fancy wine glasses and @ 12 people came over.
This is what I served:
Vanilla/Rosemary, Traditional, Orange Cranberry, Pumpkin Spice, Pineapple Ginger, Prickly Pear and Coffee meads. My friends came up with the flyers and the hor d'overes all on their own, so hats off to them for helping me make this tasting a success.

4liter, and 3 liter, 3lbs clover, handful of raisens , lalvin 1118, skol, and i am theblackwolf

Mead cat. He really seems to prefer the Cyser to the rest of them (JAOM, BOMM, and a D47 plain)

mead approve by kitteh

is that the big mouth little brewer, by northern brewer? do you like/recommend it?

First mead

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Mead I started about a month ago, clearing pretty nicely all on its own:

theblackwolf said:

is that the big mouth little brewer, by northern brewer? do you like/recommend it?

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Yes it is. I do like them. They are about a gallon and a 1/2, so there is lots of room for bubbling and mixing, or if your honey doesn't want to stop pouring and you need to add some water to fix the S.G. It also allows for a slightly bigger starting batch so you can rack a full gallon. Degassing/ aeroating with a whisk is a joy. Also easy to clean

Downsides - the ridges in the glass keep the long stick on thermometers for staying stuck, but I hear the round ones stick good. They really aren't deep enough to float a hydrometer in, so you have to theif to get reading and "wastes" product.

My mixed berry cyser bottled

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roachvaliek said:

My mixed berry cyser bottled

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That looks fantastic. I just started with mead/cyzer/mel. I di one gal. batches. Last year started three and one failed. This year I started three and two are clearing nicely. May do one more with blueberries.

Thanks. Its the first time that I didn't use fining agents, so it really tested my patience. But, it was worth it. I couldn't be any more proud.

Kiwi mead.

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KIWI?!? :rockin:

From left to right: 1-gallon batches of Kiwi, Strawberry, Pineapple, Caramel Apple Pie, and 5-gallon batch of Viking Blod clone. Mason jars are just what was left over from racking.

raisin, cinnamon racked over for aging

Black-Briar Mead. Or my interpretation of it at least.

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2 - 5L Cysers (one with EC 1118, one with EC 1122 as a comparison), Lemon Mead in back with Lemons from my tree, 7 gallons of "tweaked" JAOM in my FastFerment

Our first batch after a 6 month break...Blueberry Maple. Went a little heavy on the Maple but the clarity was perfect!

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My Wildflower Traditional Mead and the second pic is my Meyer Lemon Mead / Melomel I love how this one turned out

Some of my meads..

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Gotta love a good mead after a cold plunge. Nice! POLAR BEARS RULE.