Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

Is anyone else thinking about the skyrim mead post, or is it just me(ad)?

Hahaaa I was when I said that ... Oh man and now I'm thinking It agen...

Black-briar, Nord mead!!!! Skyrim rules. I have been trying to purchase Black-Briar Meadery in Riften. They use the ' heat ' method to make their mead. I walked through the meadery. I wish I could open something like that in real life!!!

( I know this is off topic of mead photos ) =)

Atek said:

I don't have the recipe posted on here. I stole it from gotmead. I will post it up here though and give some comments for possible tweaks. I'll reply here when its up on the recipe list.

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Still looking forward to that coffee vanilla pyment recipe...=)

My cranberry grape mead "Bog Monster"

Furmental said:

My cranberry grape mead "Bog Monster"

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Beautiful

Primaries Left to Right:

Show Mead
MAOM
Raspberry Melomel
Strawberry Pizzaz

Bugeaud said:

Is anyone else thinking about the skyrim mead post, or is it just me(ad)?

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I used to be a mazer like you... then I took an arrow to to the knee.

1 year old JAOM.

Current batches in primary......

Left to right:

Show Mead
MAOM
Raspberry Melomel
Strawberry Pizzazz

My dark wildflower grape mead racked on oak chips....smells like cabernet mmmmmm

Chile capcisumel and prickly pear test batches

My first Mead!

Strawberry and Prickley Pear
Started 7/27/11

Jaom

liquidavalon said:

Still looking forward to that coffee vanilla pyment recipe...=)

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Here it is!
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/coffee-vanilla-pyment-301272/#post3744366

Atek said:

Here it is!
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/coffee-vanilla-pyment-301272/#post3744366

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Thank you greatly!!! Awesome!

My first mead: JOAM, made as per the recipe, except I didn't add any spices except the orange, and used 71B yeast. Made october 10, 2011. Bottled December 29, 2011. Tasted today, February 5, 2012. I've never really tasted mead before, but I think this is delicious! I can mainly taste the orange, with a hint of honey in the background. Quite dry, but very pleasant.

Dangerously easy to drink! The calculated 14 % abv isn't noticable at all! How will this end? :rockin: OG was 1.102, FG 0.999.

A couple of big pics of my "Lighthouse Girl" (from cell phone camera):




(some stirred up sediment there in the second picture)

Dangerously easy to drink! The calculated 14 % abv isn't noticable at all! How will this end? OG was 1.102, FG 0.999.

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14%? That seems rather surprising to me. Did you use bread yeast as per the recipe?

Says he used 71B yeast

Oh. Well isn't really JAOM then, a variant though lol.

LowerMillHillBackyardBrew said:

My first mead: JOAM, made as per the recipe, except I didn't add any spices except the orange, and used 71B yeast. Made october 10, 2011. Bottled December 29, 2011. Tasted today, February 5, 2012. I've never really tasted mead before, but I think this is delicious! I can mainly taste the orange, with a hint of honey in the background. Quite dry, but very pleasant.

Dangerously easy to drink! The calculated 14 % abv isn't noticable at all! How will this end? :rockin: OG was 1.102, FG 0.999.

(some stirred up sediment there in the second picture)

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So you made a Joe's Orange Cinnamon Clove mead that uses bread yeast(which turns out sweet), except you left out the Cinnamon and Clove, switched the bread yeast for 71B yeast, and yours came out dry...


I believe at some point you can stop calling it a JAOM and just name it after yourself... lol. Right on, though. :rockin:

On a similar note, I made a dunkaccino, but instead of coffe and hot chocolate, I used honey and water...

Hope the pics uploaded!

My first batch
This is the Big Heathen:
24 lbs honey( just Costco crap)
ABV is at 19% and it's been aging about 10 months now, the last few with oak chips. It tastes like honey/vodka only better so I'll let it mellow a bit more, but aside from crap honey and jet fuel capabilities it does taste great!

Thanks.

what's the difference between mead & wine ? cider and wine seem to be about the amount of sugar used

Mead uses Honey for it's fermentables.

Passion fruit Mead 4 months along.

What's the recipe for the passion fruit?

Rightsnotrules said:

What's the recipe for the passion fruit?

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I did:
8 tea bags of my favorite passion fruit tea steeped for 3 minutes in 3/4 gallon water brought to a boil, 64oz. Of raw, uncooked honey added when temp dropped to 160f. Moved to a 1 gallon jug, pitched. I have transferred, then cold crashed and transferred again.

here is my orange mead still in the primary for 3 months right now. The fruit is slowly dropping but probably move or bottle it before that.

DisturbdChemist said:

here is my orange mead still in the primary for 3 months right now. The fruit is slowly dropping but probably move or bottle it before that.

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3 months on top of the yeast cake and you have the rine in there? Have you tasted it?

Furmental said:

3 months on top of the yeast cake and you have the rine in there? Have you tasted it?

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Yeah it's that jaom stuff.. Ugg

Its my first mead and yes its joam variant. I don't see being on the yeast will hurt it much. I can see the rines so ill rack it over to the secondary today. I just forgot about it for a while

People think that mead yeast throws off off flavors like Beer yeast does, but from what I understand, it doesn't... I dunno. Once I've made 10+ batches I'll let ya know lol

Bhunter87 said:

People think that mead yeast throws off off flavors like Beer yeast does, but from what I understand, it doesn't... I dunno. Once I've made 10+ batches I'll let ya know lol

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You can get off flavors from wine yeast in mead, they seem to be different. I've never tasted dms in mead, even young. But I have gotten other off flavors like the plasticky flavor and harshness from fusel alcohols.

Some wine yeasts also produce ester that effect taste, like 71b & 71v.

lawpaw said:

You can get off flavors from wine yeast in mead, they seem to be different. I've never tasted dms in mead, even young. But I have gotten other off flavors like the plasticky flavor and harshness from fusel alcohols.

Some wine yeasts also produce ester that effect taste, like 71b & 71v.

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Whatever that Ester effect may be... I love it, every wine/mead I've made with 71b has been very good. Its one of my favorite yeasts.


P.S. I love this thread.

I racked the mead off this morning to the secondary. It tasted good, just need to be aged and it should be all good. I used White labs Sweet mead which made the ABV a little lower than expected but its all good for oy frist mead. I got another larger one planned soon

My first JAOM. If it tastes half as good as it smells, then it's going to be brilliant!

I'd recommend cutting your fruit smaller, makes it infinitely easier to get it out on your first rack.

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JAOM, next time I am slicing the oranges smaller! Racked it off and let it sit 30 days, then stabilized and bottled. Fantastic!

Hazroth said:

I'd recommend cutting your fruit smaller, makes it infinitely easier to get it out on your first rack.

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Yea, I thought about that the moment after I got all the oranges in and thought to myself "How in Sam's Hell am I gonna pull these bad boys out..."