How Many Gallons of Mead 2016!

[Vex3521]

Happy New Year to all! Hoping it's starting off on a great note and with that, a lot of great meads!!

Like the previous year, we will go by Brew date and not bottled date, so as long as yeast is pitched between Jan 1 and Dec 31, 2015 it counts

In 2013: We Reached 1,156 Gallons
In 2014: We Reached 1,742 Gallons
In 2015: We Reached 1,129 Gallons

Starting off back at 0 with +1 gallon for the Solera Bochet Project

so we've got 1 gallon + who's next!!

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

1 Gallon of Goldenrod traditional hydromel

1+1 = 2

Also, I started a duplicate 2016 thread, I'll have mine removed.

 

[Frognostic]

I just made my first gallon but made a mistake when I added a refrigerated EC-1118 yeast cake which messed up my hydrometer readings. Furthermore, this new hydrometer seems to give different readings to the one I had before.

Using the same generic honey at the same weight with the same amount of water the OG is higher than it used to be, like the potential alcohol went up by around 2 or 3%. Adding around 250ml of yeasty mead dregs brought it down by around 1.5% potential alcohol. OG ended up around 1.076 but it was hard to read because of several mm of foam.

Anyway...

1 + 2 = 3

 

[BrewingTravisty]

I just started coming over from the beer side, since mead is physically easier to manage than beer. So far I have 2 1 gallon batches. One is bottled and was a weak 8%abv that I split between basic traditional mead, and 2 1 liter bottles with apples in one and oranges and pink peppercorn in the other.

So anyways 3+2=5

 

[hpe]

Does it count of I started it on Dec. 27th. If so add 7 gallons, if not 1.

 

[Frognostic]

December 27 was in 2015 rather than 2016, so no.

 

[Sagatho]

5+2= 7

a Normal Raw Honey and a Cyser in a one gallon jugs.

 

[MarkKF]

Just started one gal. Cyzer/Melomel. Apple juice/honey/raspberries. 71b-1122
7 + 1 = 8

 

[fuelish]

2x 1 gallons of plain mead, one to be used for topping up others in the future, one going to add "something" to down the road.....am thinking infusing it with yerba mate when in secondary and then some oak, just for s'n'g's....so
8+2 = 10

 

[fuelish]

5 gallons of cran-rasberry mel ...
10+5 = 15

 

[NyQuil]

So far 1 gallon of a peach melomel for a friends wedding this summer that is sitting in a secondary and 1 gallon of a blackberry melomel that is being step fed and should hit the limit of the yeast soon enough. After that I am going to do a show mead and maybe try my hand at cyser.

Only the blackberry had its yeast pitched after 1/1.

So 15+1 = 16.

 

[foolsgold]

5Gal of Raspberry mead

16+5 = 21 gallons

 

[JJack887]

3 gallons of cyser so far.

 

[TandemTails]

+ JJack887's 3 gallons = 24

I just pitched 2 gallons of a cyser with an added quart of black cherry juice and a quart of pomegranate juice using orange blossom honey.

24+2 = 26

 

[ogr8bearded1]

Started a gallon of cyser using Sourwood honey on 16 January so

26+1 = 27

 

[CKuhns]

5 Gallon Cran Orange Melomel

27+5=32

 

[fuelish]

5 gallons cherry hydro-melomel, just waiting to pitch yeast, here...

27 + 5 = 32

 

[195877]

1 gal JAOM pitched 01/06/16
2.25 gal Traditional pitched 01/22/16


32+3= 36

 

[clingy]

1 gallon, first foray into mead.

36 + 1 = 37

 

[Vex3521]

1 gal sack mead just started....

37+1 = 38

 

[fuelish]

1 gal sack mead just started....

37+1 = 38

5 gallons mango melomel

38 + 5 = 43

Shall have to step back for a bit, this ties up my last open primary and I need more honey

 

[Maylar]

We're way behind... this time last year we were over 100 gallons.

 

[Frognostic]

5 gallons mango melomel

38 + 5 = 43

Shall have to step back for a bit, this ties up my last open primary and I need more honey

1 gallon of plain water and honey mead.

43 + 1 = 44

 

[DoctorAmish]

44+5=49

Strawberry melomel.

 

[redwolf5514]

I have 1 gallon of traditional using raspberry blossom honey
And 1 gallon of elderflower metheglin

49+2= 51

 

[wildmazer]

5 gallons lapsang souchong mead

51+5=56

 

[TandemTails]

6 gallons of blueberry lambic melomel

56 + 6 = 62

 

[Kyzaboy89]

1 Bochet
2 JAOM
65

 

[Dendion]

6 plain

5 blackberry

3 Hawaiian raw honey plain

65+14 = 79

 

[Vex3521]

Just pitched my Moscow =)

79 + 1 = 80