marcownz747
Certified Cicerone, YPG vet
Just got home from fighting ISIS in Syria (With YPG, alongside US forces).
My girlfriend said she wants to make mead. She told me and THEN found out I'm a certified cicerone, BJCP judge, and former professional vintner.
So I'm going balls deep impressive on this. Tomorrow she's deciding if we are going to do a 100% blueberry wine with maple (instead of honey. Substitute SG, not weight/volume), or a strawberry wine using 100% strawberry juice, boosted to 14% abv with honey. Either way, the one she picks is going to be dry and is getting time in the hungarian oak barrel on its way. If she picks strawberry, I'm debating rolling a bunch of courvoisier around the inside of the barrel for the weeks that the mead is fermenting (outside the barrel), to bring a brandy finish to it.
So pumped to be back to production, and so pumped to go over the top.
But the other part of this is... once we bottle this, I've decided I'm gonna propose. The whole time I was in Syria, she told me how much she wanted to brew and make wine with me. So this is a good way. All in on expenses, and 5-10 gallons of mead bottled the day we get engaged.
My girlfriend said she wants to make mead. She told me and THEN found out I'm a certified cicerone, BJCP judge, and former professional vintner.
So I'm going balls deep impressive on this. Tomorrow she's deciding if we are going to do a 100% blueberry wine with maple (instead of honey. Substitute SG, not weight/volume), or a strawberry wine using 100% strawberry juice, boosted to 14% abv with honey. Either way, the one she picks is going to be dry and is getting time in the hungarian oak barrel on its way. If she picks strawberry, I'm debating rolling a bunch of courvoisier around the inside of the barrel for the weeks that the mead is fermenting (outside the barrel), to bring a brandy finish to it.
So pumped to be back to production, and so pumped to go over the top.
But the other part of this is... once we bottle this, I've decided I'm gonna propose. The whole time I was in Syria, she told me how much she wanted to brew and make wine with me. So this is a good way. All in on expenses, and 5-10 gallons of mead bottled the day we get engaged.