How Many Gallons of Mead 2015 Edition!

[MarshmallowBlue]

Another Year, Another Thread. So let's see how many gallons we've made combined this year. Just add your totals in to the last person to post. I'll go first obviously.

We will go by Brew date and not bottled date, so as long as yeast is pitched between Jan1 and Dec 31, 2015; it counts

In 2013: We Reached 1,156 Gallons
In 2014: We Reached 1,742 Gallons

Can we get 2 years in a row of mead making growth?!!!

Anyways. I haven't made anything yet!

so,

0 Gallons

 

[Complete_Amateur]

5 Gallons Black Irish Braggot

5 Gallons

 

[gratus fermentatio]

5 gallons
+
6 gallons huckleberry melomel = 11 gallons. (and counting)
Regards, GF.

 

[cwfoster]

3 gal black currant infused mead
3 gal peach and elderberry infused mead
5 gal raspberry mead
1st year brewer

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

3 gal black currant infused mead
3 gal peach and elderberry infused mead
5 gal raspberry mead
1st year brewer

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11 +3+3+5

22 Gallons

 

[beekeeperman]

Made another gallon of traditional Mead today with goldenrod honey
leftover from last year. Lavlin EC 1118/ SG 1.114

22+1 = 23 gallons

 

[ChefRex]

Made another gallon of traditional Mead today with goldenrod honey
leftover from last year. Lavlin EC 1118/ SG 1.114

22+1 = 23 gallons

One gallon tart cherry melomel= 24 gallons

 

[1up23]

One gallon tart cherry melomel= 24 gallons

24 + 6 gallons blackberry-peach melomel = 30 gallons

 

[fuelish]

30 gallons + 5 gallons plain ol' mead (light enough to bottle carb) = 35 gallons

 

[Kyzaboy89]

1 gal. Traditional (wildflower)
2.5 gal. JAOM
2.5 gal. Cyser
35 + 6 = 41 gallons.

 

[imasickboy]

41 +
1 apple butter mead +
1 control batch

43 gallons

 

[gratus fermentatio]

43 + 3 gallons orange blossom show mead = 46 gallons.

 

[Jericurl]

46 gallons

+ 1 gallon Saffron/Preserved Lemon Mead

+ 5 gallons Black Briar Mead

=

52 gallons

 

[Deafmeadmaker]

5 gal. of prickly pear
52+5=57

 

[ChrisVZ]

6 gal traditional (for blending with last year's too sweet experimental)

5 gal BOMM

5 gal BOMM (blending w/ juice to create 6 gal apple/cherry cyser. This count as 5 or 6?)

57 + 16 = 73

 

[jfusaro]

5 gallons of triple berry threat.
73
=78

 

[fuelish]

3 gallons cranberry/raspberry.....hope this turns out like I want...heh
78 + 3

= 81 gallons

 

[gilliam]

3 gallons Bochet using a recipe from Le Ménagier de Paris.

81 + 3 = 84

 

[ChefRex]

+ 1 gallon base mead, not sure where I'll go with it =85

 

[david83]

+ three 1 gallon batches
88

 

[loveofrose]

2 gallon Szechaun T 'ej BOMM
1 gallon Ames BOMM
1 gallon Sourwood BOMM
1 gallon Belgian Space Craff

93 gallons


Better brewing through science!

See my Current Mead Making Techniques article here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/current-mead-making-techniques.html

 

[RichBrewer]

I gallon JAOM
3 Gallons Pomegranate Melomel

97 Gallons

 

[HawleyFarms]

6 gallons of a cote des blanc semi-sweet "quick mead" and 1 gallon test batch of a hopped saison cyser (amazing).

= 104 gallons

 

[Grreg2]

+2
One gallon kumquat
One gallon cherry
=106

 

[Faile85]

2 gal raspberry/vanilla, 1gal BOMM, 2 gal cyser BOMM
=93

 

[Faile85]

Oops
=111

 

[RichBrewer]

1 Gal. Raspberry Melomel
1 Gal. Naked Mango

Total 113

 

[jerame]

113+
1 gal corriander acerglyn
1 gal ginger acerglyn
1 gal blood orange

Total 116

 

[HawleyFarms]

Oooh a ginger acerglyn sounds awesome.

Add 3 gallons of my hopped saison cyser to the tally and a 1 gallon test batch of a hopped red radish acerglyn that I'm not real impressed with.

= 120

 

[Fastforwardx2]

120
+
1 gallon of strawberry melomel
=
121 gallons