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[SouthernYankee]

The point is the poison in the Amanita Muscaria (Fly agaric) 'mushroom' can severely damage your kidneys and liver. Since someone in this post is 'brewing' it and has posted it in this thread, I feel it is important for others to know.

Sorry the warning has bothered you Southern Yankee.

Thank you for the warning...but you can eat these. It does take a lot of prep work, but yes you can.

http://honest-food.net/2011/12/24/eating-santas-shroom/

Also a quote from the article. "Historically, the Siberians boiled fly agaric and then drank the pot liquor to get roaring drunk. They then preserved the mushrooms for eating later."

In any case...

 

[rskelhorn]

Thank you for the warning...but you can eat these. It does take a lot of prep work, but yes you can.

http://honest-food.net/2011/12/24/eating-santas-shroom/

Also a quote from the article. "Historically, the Siberians boiled fly agaric and then drank the pot liquor to get roaring drunk. They then preserved the mushrooms for eating later."

In any case...

There are a lot of things done historically which do not make a lot of sense today. Whether there are methods to remove toxins that will cause liver and kidney failure in the Amanita Muscaria are beyond the scope of my warning.

 

[rskelhorn]

From left to right:
Cooper Brewmaster Pilsner, Edword Apfelwein, Piesporter White Wine and Mead.

The mead has the following ingredients:
- 1.3L Cranberry Juice
- ~400g Dextrose
- 1 cup juiced wild blueberries
- 5 fresh juiced oranges
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice (Nutmeg/Cinnamon etc)
- 2 tsp grated orange rind
- Cooper brewing yeast

 

[TheWeeb]

sparkling hefewiezen mead (honey, water, noble hops, Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast) on a cold nasty day

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

sparkling hefewiezen mead (honey, water, noble hops, Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast) on a cold nasty day

Looks a little clear for a heff! get some wheat DME in there. Anywho, looks real tasty in the end.

 

[Tnels977]

This mead has been waiting for my wedding this Saturday. Other two bottles are for our 1 and 10 year anniversaries.

 

[TheWeeb]

Looks a little clear for a heff! get some wheat DME in there. Anywho, looks real tasty in the end.

Yes, any ideas on how to increase the body without the use of grains is appreciated. This was my second batch, goal being creating a hefe that is gluten free, and since I have some experience with meads, figured I would take that approach first.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

From left to right:
Cooper Brewmaster Pilsner, Edword Apfelwein, Piesporter White Wine and Mead.

The mead has the following ingredients:
- 1.3L Cranberry Juice
- ~400g Dextrose
- 1 cup juiced wild blueberries
- 5 fresh juiced oranges
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice (Nutmeg/Cinnamon etc)
- 2 tsp grated orange rind
- Cooper brewing yeast

Sorry to say but that is not a mead. Where is the honey? Its sounds like a fermented fruit juice instead.

 

[Swarley88]

Sorry to say but that is not a mead. Where is the honey? Its sounds like a fermented fruit juice instead.

Seems like an ok recipe. But yes, where is the honey? It isn't a mead without the honey.

 

[SouthernYankee]

Just made my very first mead tonight. So happen's its a JAOM.
Only thing I left out since I forgot to pick them up at the market were the Nutmeg and Allspice.
I don't think I'll miss the spices that much.
Looking forward to the next 2+ months and seeing how this turns out.

**Update** Its been 3 hours now and wow I can smell the yeast and everything else 3 rooms over in my house.

 

[TheWeeb]

It is not April 6th yet, but had to crack a bottle of my Game of Thrones Mead, just to see how the aging process was progressing. Beautiful color, clarity, and the taste, simply fantastic. I am going to gather the ingredients this weekend to do another batch.

 

[brandonman]

In with my first ever post! Here's one of the two half-gallons of my take on the Storm the Castle Fast mead (Fleischman's and all!). These babies were started in late July, and I was afraid they were going to be terrible, as they were unbearably dry a few months in. I was convinced on some homebrewing threads online to let them continue on. Eventually I cold crashed them in October or so, and have been letting them age since. Since December, the taste has been changing tremendously, and is reaching an agreeable flavor. I'm sure I'll make a thread soon detailing some questions I have.

 

[eogaard]

First one's kind of a dark picture. Strawberry on left, tripleberry on right (blackberry, raspberry, blueberry). Next one is the strawberry mead bottled, and last one is a new JAOM bubbling away.

 

[wmcc75]

 

[pandatrax]

My first mead. I sorta followed the "Malkore's (not so) Ancient Orange Mead" recipe.

Brew Date: 2013-06-22
Batch size: 2 gallons

Racked to Secondary: 2013-08-10

Bottled:

1st gallon 2014-01-22​

2nd gallon still in secondary​

 

[amaycock071]

Kinda obvious which is which from the colours but here I have my bochet bottled last weekend and my banana melomel with gold leaf (for the girlfriend) bottled the weekend before that. The banana melomel tastes less like banana than I would like due to the fermentation process changing its flavour somewhat as was to be expected. It has however given the mead a wonderful amount of body and quite a nice young mead. 5 months down the road and we shall try it again!

 

[Atek]

Labeled my amazing desert pear melomel, so good...

 

[jak1010]

Labeled my amazing desert pear melomel, so good...

That looks damn tasty. The labels are very detailed. I read almost all of the fine print on the back. Well done!

Mind sharing the recipe here or through a PM?

 

[Atek]

That looks damn tasty. The labels are very detailed. I read almost all of the fine print on the back. Well done!

Mind sharing the recipe here or through a PM?

It was roughly as follows:
16lbs honey
5gal pear juice (PITA to press pears)
used a 1/2gal cran-raspberry juice starter with RC212
OG came out to 1.150

 

[TheWeeb]

Game of Thrones Mead Round Two. Second batch, created two weeks ago, OG 1.096, just transferred off the pepper/dates mush, took a small sample to get a reading, 1.012, already at just over 11% ABV. I expect this one to finish and clear like the bottle from the first batch shown here and above, 14-15% of earthy sweet hotness.

 

[JustinCider]

Several test Bochets....a 5 Gallon Wildberry Melomel and some JAOM (5 gallons). All started with-in the last 35 days.

 

[Risner]

First batch of mead one month and going strong


Backwoodsbrewer

 

[dan6310]

Here is a pic of my berry melomel that I racked to secondary. 1 month old and very dry. Good berry flavor but light on the honey flavor. Og started at 1.100 and finished at .996. I'm going to split into 3 one gallon glass jugs for one as is, one will get some toasted oak cubes for a few weeks and then back sweetened and the last will just get back sweetened.

 

[SouthernYankee]

Sorry for the poor quality photo...taken with my phone.

Left to right: Blueberry melomel, Orange melomel (taken from Malkore's (not so) Ancient Orange Mead) JAOM (we all know about this one!) and a Mixed Berry melomel.

The JAOM was started mid Jan. All the others started there after...
Looking forward to a taste test..thus the small 1 gal batches..

 

[NivekD]

Prickly Pear mead after first racking:

I made a two gallon batch and had about three quarts left. Freeze concentrated it and ended up with a liter plus a pint.

 

[rustyknives]

Jalapeño mead using DisturbdChemist's recipe, pretty amazing, though I only have 4 beer bottle's worth

 

[jak1010]

Jalapeño mead using DisturbdChemist's recipe, pretty amazing, though I only have 4 beer bottle's worth

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Nice! I just started a gallon of this. When did you start yours?

 

[rustyknives]

Nice! I just started a gallon of this. When did you start yours?

Started it about 2 months ago? A little more? I think mid December though I don't remember off the top of my head. It was a fast mead though, and it came out tasting amazing.

 

[jak1010]

Started it about 2 months ago? A little more? I think mid December though I don't remember off the top of my head. It was a fast mead though, and it came out tasting amazing.

Thanks. Can't wait for mine.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Jalapeño mead using DisturbdChemist's recipe, pretty amazing, though I only have 4 beer bottle's worth

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That's when you have to make some more. Glad you liked it!