Its been a mead day

[Amiaji]

I started homebrewing back in April and have been interested in making mead for a while now. My wife has been helping me brew and started to show some interest in making wine. Yesterday I came into possesion of 5 gallons of honey and after a trip to the grocery store to get some bread yeast we made JOAM. Today I went to the LHBS and got some yeast and yeast nutrients so we made up 5 more gallons of mead.

Starting from the left we have the JOAM, a cyser, a pinapple melomel, A slightly modified version of MOAM, a pyment, and a traditional mead.

The JOAM recipe was followed completely. The MOAM was modified slightly in that we didnt heat the honey and we put all the spices into the carboy. The other 3 recipes are just 2 lbs of honey and juice, with some added nutrient.

Its been a good day, and while all this was going on I managed to brew an English Special Bitter! Gonna have alot of drinking to do one day.

 

[Tusch]

Nice day for sure. I am jealous, I have run out of carboys and gallon jugs, guess I am going to need to head to the store!

 

[BigKahuna]

WOW! Looks like you're hooked.

Congratulations.

 

[Amiaji]

WOW! Looks like you're hooked.

Congratulations.

Hooked? I think I may have a problem...

 

[BigKahuna]

Yes you do...35 + gallons in the works and not but 36 sole bottles to drink!

 

[petes]

That looks bloody fantastic!

 

[socalamcor]

oh christ that is just great

 

[Crisco87]

Quick question: what does JOAM and MOAM mean?

 

[will_cbe]

JAOM - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/joes-ancient-orange-mead-49106/
MAOM - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/malkores-not-so-ancient-orange-mead-50201/

PS - Does anyone know how much ground clove is the same as one whole clove? I'm having trouble rationalizing buying a box of cloves for one clove.

 

[Tusch]

Not sure what recipe you are going with cbe, but ground spices can be a pain. They tend to add tot he sediment or float on top, making racking an annoyance.

But no I don't know the equivalent amount. Cloves aren't too expensive, they keep for a really long time, and are good for a lot of cooking (or if you get into more mead or cider making)

 

[Amiaji]

I had to put a blow-off tube on the pineapple mead this morning but other than that they are all doing great. Gonna be a while till I can finally try them, I cant wait.

 

[Brandon O]

What kind of yeast did you use?

 

[Amiaji]

What kind of yeast did you use?

I used D-47 in 2 of them, EC-1118 in the three with the juice in them, and bread yeast in the JOAM.