Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[bellinmi88]

Bottling this week!



JOE'S ANCIENT ORANGE MEAD.

 

[zeg]

Here's my first attempt, a shot at a medium-sweet show mead based on a cross between recipes, including Ken Schramm's and Charlie Papazian's. It's been about a day since pitching and it's burping along nicely. (Not sure if the blow-off is necessary, but I figured it was better to err on the side of not having junk erupt out of an air lock...)

 

[lawpaw]

Cyser





Dandelion honey





Mesquite, raspberry, local, orange blossom, raspberry melomel, lavender honey in primary, buckwheat.

 

[Atek]

Concerning your coffee vanilla pyment:

Do you have a recipe on here of what and how you made it? I would love to try a clone. Thanks

I don't have the recipe posted on here. I stole it from gotmead. I will post it up here though and give some comments for possible tweaks. I'll reply here when its up on the recipe list.

 

[liquidavalon]

I don't have the recipe posted on here. I stole it from gotmead. I will post it up here though and give some comments for possible tweaks. I'll reply here when its up on the recipe list.

Thanks...I am excited to try it, sounds phenomenal!!!

 

[Penguinetti]

Dragon's Blood Rhodomel. Primary, secondary and in the bottle. Made with rosehips and buckwheat honey.

Those look good.

How did this turn out, and did you come up with the recipe yourself, or did you find it somewhere?

 

[Bhunter87]

Those look good.

How did this turn out, and did you come up with the recipe yourself, or did you find it somewhere?

+1 I'm interested

 

[DragonsLair]

Those look good.

How did this turn out, and did you come up with the recipe yourself, or did you find it somewhere?

It turned out awesome. One of my best ever. :rockin: It was my own concoction. I didn't get one made last year because I didn't manage to get out and pick rosehips. Will definitely get out this year.

We started off by extracting 12.5 cups of juice from the rosehips we picked along the Touchet River in southeast Washington during hunting season. To do this we boiled them and pressed them through a colander. Old school and a lot of work. I will devise a better process for larger batches. But this stuff is very potent in flavor and color so it doesn't take much.

Fermented the rosehip juice with 12# of buckwheat honey from the Palouse and 2 gallons of water. If you've never had it this honey is probably the strongest flavor and darkest color. We used White Labs WLP720 Sweet Mead yeast and only helped that with a couple of teaspoons each of nutrients and energizer.

Started in May with an SG1.150 and bottled in August at SG1.028. High octane and pretty sweet. There was no problem whatsoever picking out the flavors of both the rosehips and the buckwheat honey. I still have people asking when I'm going to make some more.

When it was in primary the name came to me but I see another meadery is already using Dragons Blood for one of their meads so I will need to find something else to call it.

 

[Bhunter87]

Dragon nectar? LOL

 

[nwaite]

Or ORC BLOOD MEAD! AAAHHH!!

 

[Bugeaud]

Is anyone else thinking about the skyrim mead post, or is it just me(ad)?

 

[nwaite]

Hahaaa I was when I said that ... Oh man and now I'm thinking It agen...

 

[liquidavalon]

Black-briar, Nord mead!!!! Skyrim rules. I have been trying to purchase Black-Briar Meadery in Riften. They use the ' heat ' method to make their mead. I walked through the meadery. I wish I could open something like that in real life!!!

( I know this is off topic of mead photos ) =)

 

[liquidavalon]

I don't have the recipe posted on here. I stole it from gotmead. I will post it up here though and give some comments for possible tweaks. I'll reply here when its up on the recipe list.

Still looking forward to that coffee vanilla pyment recipe...=)

 

[Alchemy]

My cranberry grape mead "Bog Monster"

 

[Bhunter87]

My cranberry grape mead "Bog Monster"

<img src="https://www.homebrewtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45936"/>

Beautiful

 

[BobJ]

Primaries Left to Right:

Show Mead
MAOM
Raspberry Melomel
Strawberry Pizzaz

 

[Ottawa75]

Is anyone else thinking about the skyrim mead post, or is it just me(ad)?

I used to be a mazer like you... then I took an arrow to to the knee.

 

[SenorPepe]

1 year old JAOM.

 

[BobJ]

Current batches in primary......

Left to right:

Show Mead
MAOM
Raspberry Melomel
Strawberry Pizzazz

 

[Hazroth]

My dark wildflower grape mead racked on oak chips....smells like cabernet mmmmmm

 

[MrOrange]

Chile capcisumel and prickly pear test batches

 

[bellinmi88]

My first Mead!

 

[Jones]

Strawberry and Prickley Pear
Started 7/27/11

 

[Tnoodle]

Jaom

 

[Atek]

Still looking forward to that coffee vanilla pyment recipe...=)

Here it is!
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/coffee-vanilla-pyment-301272/#post3744366

 

[liquidavalon]

Here it is!
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/coffee-vanilla-pyment-301272/#post3744366

Thank you greatly!!! Awesome!

 

[LowerMillHillBackyardBrew]

My first mead: JOAM, made as per the recipe, except I didn't add any spices except the orange, and used 71B yeast. Made october 10, 2011. Bottled December 29, 2011. Tasted today, February 5, 2012. I've never really tasted mead before, but I think this is delicious! I can mainly taste the orange, with a hint of honey in the background. Quite dry, but very pleasant.

Dangerously easy to drink! The calculated 14 % abv isn't noticable at all! How will this end? :rockin: OG was 1.102, FG 0.999.

A couple of big pics of my "Lighthouse Girl" (from cell phone camera):

(some stirred up sediment there in the second picture)

 

[Bugeaud]

Dangerously easy to drink! The calculated 14 % abv isn't noticable at all! How will this end? OG was 1.102, FG 0.999.

14%? That seems rather surprising to me. Did you use bread yeast as per the recipe?

 

[crazyseany]

Says he used 71B yeast