Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[lewybrewing]

My Blackberry Honey Mead. Sat in Primary ONLY for 5 years. As of today its going to NHC. Personally, One of the best examples I've ever had.

 

[beninan]

Bottled Caramel Apple Mead

Sample of the Caramel Apple Mead

5 gallon batch of Joe's Ancient Orange Mead

Bottled 5 gallon batch of JAOM

Sample of my first batch of JAOM (from a 1 gallon batch)

Ben's Ancient Orange Mead (modified recipe from JAOM)

A simple mead recipe

 

[Alchemy]

Those all look great! keep em comin

 

[Jukas]

My Blackberry Honey Mead. Sat in Primary ONLY for 5 years. As of today its going to NHC. Personally, One of the best examples I've ever had.

Five years in primary?!?! Now you sir, have way more self control than I ever would. Unless of course it started as a 5 gallon batch and is now a 1 gallon batch

 

[STLExpat]

JAOM on the right, finished tossing everything in a little over two hours ago. Grapefruit honey ale is on the left, got a couple weeks before it's ready for bottling.

 

[hewnizit]

This mead was started on Feb 13 2012 and is as smooth as juice. Calculated at 16-18%abv

 

[Draegon]

Wish Ihad found this forum sooner! Worked around 8 gallons of basic mead, drank one (tasted like white wine, except the last bottle which tasted like true mead) and have just started filtering to give a crisp look (these were started on the 6th and 9th of March 2011)

have the below still to clear and filter which should be happening tomorrow;
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/HomerDave/md5.jpg

 

[biochemedic]

My Blackberry Honey Mead. Sat in Primary ONLY for 5 years. As of today its going to NHC. Personally, One of the best examples I've ever had.

5 years in primary...well, if that doesn't put the whole autolysis myth to rest, I don't know what will!

 

[lewybrewing]

Five years in primary?!?! Now you sir, have way more self control than I ever would. Unless of course it started as a 5 gallon batch and is now a 1 gallon batch

All 5 Gallons are accounted for. I would have waited longer but I needed the carboy (its a 6.5 Gallon) for another beer.

 

[lewybrewing]

5 years in primary...well, if that doesn't put the whole autolysis myth to rest, I don't know what will!

That is very true.

What I think is even better is the fact that I still have some of the original blackberry honey that I can do a side by side tasting with. Since this is a picture thread, here is one more.

 

[Zbay]

Wow they all look so tasty! Now if I could just speed time up to have mine ready to drink!

 

[LMGK]

Can I borrow your time machine?

 

[Hazroth]

Come on guys I know there are more brewers out there post it up!!!

 

[Clann]

Here you go. JAOM at over a year.

 

[STLExpat]

<img src="https://www.homebrewtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=43974"/>

a very young mead, still in primary.
no other ingredients except a lemon

That a five gallon batch? I've got an idea for a one gallon sweet tea mead, and I want to toss some lemon in. trying to figure out how much right now

 

[jfrans84]

My first meads!!

 

[Outkikked]

From left:

Simply Apple Cinnamon Cyser. 3.1 lbs Orange Blossom Honey. Lalvin KV-1116. Started March 4, 2012.

Dry Ancient Orange. 2.6 lbs Clover Honey. Lalvin D47. Started March 5, 2012.

Strawberry Melomel. 3.0 lbs Orange Blossom Honey. Lalvin KV-1116. Started January 9, 2012.

 

[Machalel]

hmm...after 3 weeks, just racked for the first time - this one is dark!

Can't see any light through it from one of those massive spotlight-torches!

 

[ExoticMeadMaker]

Machalel, what kind of mead is that?

 

[spearko520]

alfalfa honey mead- force carbed after 6 mos.

 

[Machalel]

Machalel, what kind of mead is that?

It's a bit of an experiement...
I made a thread for it here /

 

[hewnizit]

Brew started February 13, bottled on February 27

 

[bodhi86]

My spiced autumn mead bout to finish primary of one month ( left), my recently bottled for aging buckwheat cyser ( middle), and my jaom using d47 bout 5 days into primary ( right)

 

[haxcess]

My apple cinnamon mead:

 

[Tyrone]

Brew started February 13, bottled on February 27

View attachment 51741

really? wow. I have meads I started in late Dec that are still not at FG and certainly not drinkable.. what yeast did you use?

Is it sweet or dry?

 

[Bhunter87]

+1... It's gotta be MAD hot right now and hasn't cleared out from what I see...

 

[hewnizit]

really? wow. I have meads I started in late Dec that are still not at FG and certainly not drinkable.. what yeast did you use?

Is it sweet or dry?

I used red star traditional active dry. And it's actually a Tad on the dry side

 

[bob1852]

Found out this oaked cherry melomel won a bronze medal at this year's Mazer Cup!

 

[paraordnance]

My meads, all 22 gal of it as of today. I constantly add to my collection

 

[BrewerJack]

My Cinnamon Clove Christmas Cyser on the right. This was taken about 2 weeks into primary, I racked at 32 days into secondary and man is it HOT.

12 lbs clover honey, 8 cinnamon sticks, 12 crushed cloves, Lalvin D47.

EDIT: I also used unfiltered apple cider.

OG: 1.138
FG: 1.019
ABV: 15.5% (Standard Calculation), 18.1% (Alternate Calculation)