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I have 6 brews going right now. All meads of various flavors (strawberry, blackberry, fruit cake, orange, old fashioned, and chocolate/vanilla/cherry/black raspberry)!

Well I finished my batch of this and it came out amazing and probably the best mead I've ever made since I started tinkering with mead in 2020. I did add a bit more cacao nibs than your recipe, but overall I followed it. This opened me up to looking into these additives I've never used or knew...

That's very dry for a JOAM. I've never had one go dry before and it usually remains rather sweet. I'd rack it and taste and and determine what you want to do next (either leave it if you like the taste or stabilize and backsweeten to your liking.

Started this batch about 4 days ago. Using these additives, I'm noticing a more forceful fermentation and the smell coming off of this is amazing.

What are booster blank and opti-red? I haven't heard of these and Google isn't much help :)

This sounds delicious and I plan to give it a whirl. Thanks for sharing!

I bottled this one up last year and have shared it with many folks and it's one of the favorites I have made. Thanks again for sharing the recipe.

I made this a while back and out of all the meads I have made, this appears to be everyone's favorite so far. Started another batch last week. Thanks for sharing!

Well I'm teaching a buddy how to make mead today for his first one. I thought I'd make one today too and my wife wanted a 'Christmas-type' mead. This one sounds perfect although we may have to wait for next Christmas to drink.

Yeah that's tricky. I've used cacoa nibs in mead and it turned out alright. You toast them up before putting into the mead and with cardamon, I wouldn't use much as it's fairly powerful. If you look around this site on other recipes, you can get an idea of how much to use (that's how I do it...

I made the mistake of brewing this in a one gallon container. I think it was done but didn't degas and when I racked over to 1 gallon, there's a lot of headspace. I'm going to ride it out and see how it goes. Hope it's not ruined (I had no marbles or anything to add to the volume and reduce...

Many folks use bottled spring water. If you're tap water is good enough to drink, it's probably okay to use for mead. Just stay away from using bottled distilled water and you should be fine.

I just started a batch this morning using D47 cause that's what I had laying around. If it gets too dry I will just backsweeten.

130.2 gallons + 2 gallons blackberry, 2 gallons caramel apple, 1 gallon orange, 1 gallon coffee, 1 gallon pb/banana/marshmallow = 137.2 gallons!

You should have it fermenting in a sealed container, not an open container unless I'm misunderstanding? I know nothing about 'wild fermentation' so maybe I'm the wrong guy to ask :)

Yeah that's looking good to me. Set it and forget it and watch the fermentation process!

Curious about your receipt to get the muffin flavor?

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