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Time for another homemade mead. It might be light in colour, but I'm enjoying the clarity. 7.3% ABV Wild ferment, acacia hydromel. Seems to have a surprising plum aroma. All in all an improvement over my previous batches.

Reservoir Dogs single hop IPA, hopped with Styrian Wolf. Was getting a fair amount of conifer-like aromas when cold. As it warmed up, melon-like aromas started drifting to the foreground. All in all an enjoyable drink.

Been a while since I've gotten my hands on the 5-year one. Need to go out and find it in order to add it to my collection one of these days.

Finally got around to bottling and racking today, I've been putting it off for way too long. Now with that being said I've bottled about 2 gallons of my acacia, wild ferment hydromel. Racked 1 gallon of my pineapple experiment, not optimistic about it, but we'll see how it'll go. And I've...

Going with another one of my homemade meads, this one improved with age. It's now a nice, refreshing, acacia hydromel with notes reminiscent of a white wine. Which would be even better if I actually enjoyed white wine. 😅

Something a bit different today, not quite the day for a fancy rum, but it'll do nicely. Plantation Grande Reserve

Found one more hiding in the fridge.

After a long day and an even longer week I'm glad to kick back and relax with this Bornem Double.

Enjoying a Leffe brown today.

Well at least thus far I've yet to have an infection in my meads so at least I appear to have the sanitation part down. I'm certain that will come in very useful here as well :) That settles it then, I suppose. Looks like I'm going with DME and steeped grain for my first brew. I'll see how that...

I suppose I could give that a try, though I'll likely replace LME with DME since getting it might be easier for me. Just so many choice in beer brewing and I haven't even started yet.

Bought a heating element for my fermentation fridge, at this point even I have to admit that building that bloody thing is taking me way too long. I've also started to cold crash my plum melomel that's been ageing for about 9 months now. To be fair, I've also been putting that project off...

A friend brought over a few of these.

Wow, that's a very large number of replies, and I wholeheartedly thank you all for your input. I think I've come to some conclusions. As much as I'd love to give the roggenbier a shot, I'll put that plan on hold for the time being, while I gather some actual brewing experience. It is probably...

Well here I go, the inevitable has happened. I've spent time on this forum thinking that I'd be able to stick to mead making and stray away from the beer brewing temptation, but alas, I have failed. My grandma led me into temptation with her fond memories of a roggenbier that her mother used to...

In the mood for wheat beer once more this fine Friday, one of these days I'll really need to start making my own brew... For now though I'll just satisfy myself with these. Not my favourite, the aroma was nice and pleasant but the taste was sort of bland. I enjoyed and was pleasantly surprised...

Feeling optimistic today so here I go again with one of my attempted meads. This time an acacia hydromel, backsweetened with more acacia honey. Still far from a great mead, but at least this one is fairly drinkable. Also my dear pup decided to join me today.

Stopped by a Beer pub before heading off to a concert yesterday. Started of with a lovely Chimay Trapist dubbel And continued with a lambic, Lindemans Kriek which was on tap. And something to quench the thirst after the concert.

It's Friday and today I'm having another homemade mead... While I will finish the pint, I won't be offering it to anyone for at least another 6 months... Yeah nope, had to wash it down with something better. At least I enjoyed this one.

Let's see now, I have some noble plans for 2023, including; -An actual palatable mead -Kiwi Melomel per request -Banana Melomel (due to my inexplicable obsession with the idea) -Spruce tip mead -2023's batch of my winter mead (still need to see how last years batch turned out after a year.)...