Kid Mode,
Actually that would be a melomel, mead made with fruit addition. A metheglin would be a mead made with spices.
On the Loquats, we have never seen or tasted one, we were planning this trip while my Aunt was here in East Texas visting her sister (other Aunt) and she invited us to spend Memorial Day weekend plus a few extra days to miss the traffic. We were visiting them and had taken along a bottle of our JAO mead to share as we all played 42 (dominoe game) and like my wife those ladies fell in love with their first taste of mead. The aunt from Central Texas started telling us all about what was grown out there and that we should take a little extra time to visit some orchards while we were out that way so the ladies came up with the plan and I now get to fly fish in the Colorado river at Colorado Bend State Park for 4 days and then go down to a little town in the middle of nowhere name Camp Verde for an additional week or so to fish in the creek that runs through her place and to visit several historical sites along with the orchards.
Talk about hitting the grandslam, I did it, and its all been the wifes and the two Aunts planning so it should be a nice trip all in all. I did manage to throw in the visit to the state park for 4 days but the wife just kinda skipped over it and went right on with the planning, we have been getting all our camping gear ready for the last two day and plan to leave next Monday.
I'll let ya know how it goes and what I think of the Loquats when we return if we ever do...............:rockin: