HalonChilled
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Hey All,
I have been educating my brewing palate for a while now and have been looking into brewing for some time. I have been browsing the forum and I am very excited with the possibilities of mead.
I tend to drink fine beer and do appreciate it in and of itself but it is lacking something. I have an appreciation of wine as well, though I tend to find it to dry for my taste. I do absolutely love, however, a low alcohol sweet as candy Auslese.
I have an idealic notion of what I want to brew: a low alchohol (between 6-9%), sparkling mead, crisp, with a hint of vanilla, almost like candy that you can drink all day. Or a Braggot encorporating what I have described above with a pale ale base.
Is what I have described possible, assuming I have enough time, enough patience, and dedication to technical excellence?
I have never tasted a mead, local liquor stores don't carry it and what I have seen online is nothing like what I want to make.
My nearest brewery supplier is over an hour and a half away. With gas prices what they are and shipping so high for carboys I plan on committing to brewing as a hobby and shelling out $300 to get a setup that will adapt as my interest grows.
Any tips for what equipment to get? right now I plan on getting what most online suppliers consider an advanced setup for bottling plus a few one gallon carboys for experimenting.
Any recipes I should look at?
Sorry for the long post.
I have been educating my brewing palate for a while now and have been looking into brewing for some time. I have been browsing the forum and I am very excited with the possibilities of mead.
I tend to drink fine beer and do appreciate it in and of itself but it is lacking something. I have an appreciation of wine as well, though I tend to find it to dry for my taste. I do absolutely love, however, a low alcohol sweet as candy Auslese.
I have an idealic notion of what I want to brew: a low alchohol (between 6-9%), sparkling mead, crisp, with a hint of vanilla, almost like candy that you can drink all day. Or a Braggot encorporating what I have described above with a pale ale base.
Is what I have described possible, assuming I have enough time, enough patience, and dedication to technical excellence?
I have never tasted a mead, local liquor stores don't carry it and what I have seen online is nothing like what I want to make.
My nearest brewery supplier is over an hour and a half away. With gas prices what they are and shipping so high for carboys I plan on committing to brewing as a hobby and shelling out $300 to get a setup that will adapt as my interest grows.
Any tips for what equipment to get? right now I plan on getting what most online suppliers consider an advanced setup for bottling plus a few one gallon carboys for experimenting.
Any recipes I should look at?
Sorry for the long post.