Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[cgr2973]

Hopefully corona doesn't mind I had to reuse Some of their bottles. This was my first batch and it came out great.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

I don't mind especially if its good mead lol

 

[Brann_mac_Finnchad]

I made a version of JAOM with added juniper berries and EC 1118 I think it was, I used dried juniper berries, and then I racked onto oak in secondary, it is fantastic. I used about a half a cup of dried juniper berries in a one gallon batch, but I think I would go a whole cup next time.

That sounds good. I may have to make a juniper based mead one of these months.

 

[Onihige]

Hopefully corona doesn't mind I had to reuse Some of their bottles. This was my first batch and it came out great.

They should be grateful! Also, it seems your mead has more colour than their beer.

 

[chickabeelane]

Double black mead - blackberry and black currant currently in the fermenting stage. We shall see how it turns out.

 

[odinsgift]

Min Thor's Mjød finally dropped the haze after 1.5 years. Need to take a picture.

 

[ambrose]

My first 2 batches, left is pomegranate, goji berries and vanilla bean, right is rockmelon and pineapple

 

[MzAnnie]

This is my mead area. Note my complete disregard of the rules, and the fact that I play around with flavors willy-nilly. Sometimes I even come up with a tasty mead! I love playing with breadyeast because its cheap, I only have to wait a few months to get a good idea of the flavors, and I don't have to worry about off-flavors in my hot-as-moose-yayas apartment.

Note also the chalkboard area that my SWMBO painted on the wall to surprise me. When I got home from work she had done a full write-up on the meads I had fermenting and aging. I think I'll keep her!

That is too cool!!! I think this is the first picture I have seen with ballons as airlocks. I, too, use ballons. Age old family tradition!!!

 

[Cliclaste]

Just transferred my 2gal bucket of strawberry passion tea mead to secondary, looks beautiful, I havn't tasted yet

Update, I did taste it, fairly strong and dry, but a definite strawberry tart flavor, nothing off about it. One of my best tasting meads so far

 

[agent44]

My second mead bottled yesterday, it's a cranberry pomegranate mead, it's got a definite peptic haze, I started it before I had any enzyme. It's got a great taste, but it's super strong, I mean burn allllll the wayyyyy downnnnn strong. I'm gonna let this sit for a year or so lol. it was a one gallon test batch, so I may open one bottle at six months and see how it is. I have four other test batches and the samples I've tried are way more mellow then this, I'm bottling his sister in a couple days, a one gallon cranberry pomegranate cyser. It's cloudy also, but it's a taste I'm looking for not a look. Happy brewing!

 

[Repenance]

The first two are a braggot, a 2 gallon batch, using amber ale malt, chocolate ale malt, some cascade hops, and about 2.5g of honey from a local beekeeper.
When I pour it into a cup it looks like dark maple syrup. Next time I have a glass I'll take another picture for a better colour representation. Oh yeah and the home-made label translates to 'Dwarven Stout'

The last two are a Fruits of the Forest mead. Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and some strawberries.

 

[CaptainLongneck]

My JAOM and Blackberry mead

 

[Gunwalls]

Apfelwein experiment on the left and my first mead ever on the right. Strawberry, Raspberry, and blackberry

 

[chickabeelane]

Pretty pic of the sun catching some cranberry orange mead

 

[rideincircles]

Here is what I have fermenting away:

2 x 1 gallon JAOM started July 1st and July 30th

1 3-gallon batch of JAOM my friend brewed at my house Sunday

5 gallons Nutcastle English Brown Ale from classic brewing styles from sunday

Also, 5.5 gallons apfelwein, now removed from water bath

 

[Native302]

2 year old appfelwein




Appfelwein and cherry vanilla mead, both ready to bottle.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

My Jalapeno cucumber mead 14.8%. It's awesome when I taste test it. Hope it'll do well in a competition I entered it. It's still young but I like it.

 

[tom_gamer]

My Jalapeno cucumber mead 14.8%. It's awesome when I taste test it. Hope it'll do well in a competition I entered it. It's still young but I like it.

You still need to let try it.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

You still need to let 'me' try it.

I will. I got plenty of it (but not in mead terms lol)

 

[tom_gamer]

I will. I got plenty of it (but not in mead terms lol)

I don't know if I want to try anything that's not in mead terms. Lol

 

[Brann_mac_Finnchad]

My Jalapeno cucumber mead 14.8%. It's awesome when I taste test it. Hope it'll do well in a competition I entered it. It's still young but I like it.

You suceeded with a Cucumber mead! You've posted the recipe, right?

 

[DisturbdChemist]

I don't know if I want to try anything that's not in mead terms. Lol

It's mead lol. The main fermentable is honey lol.


Brann_mac_Finnchad

No I haven't lol. What I did is basically steep a whole sliced cucumber and a few sliced jalapenos in hot water for thirty or so minutes. (Minus the seeds) Then remove them and stirred in the honey. Then I basically "dry hop" with chopped fresh jalapeno, no seeds, and cucumber for a week after it was done fermenting. I think I used 3.5 lbs of honey and about 5 total jalapenos and 2 cucumbers but I need to check the notes for a gallon batch.

You taste the sweet pepper with no heat and a mild cucumber flavor that adds refreshing qualities to the mead. The jalapeno is the main flavor but I notice the cucumber.

My dad and brother in law* actually liked it. I didn't back sweetened it and it has a huge jalapeno/cucumber aroma to it. Im going to make a bigger batch of it soon.

 

[tom_gamer]

My dad and brother in love actually liked it.

Brother in love? You got something to confess? Lol jk

 

[DisturbdChemist]

*Law. Should I blame it on the auto correct or the 120 lol.

 

[Brann_mac_Finnchad]

O'Rowark's Revenge capsicumel

 

[delvorak]

O'Rowark's Revenge capsicumel

That's an awesome bottle! Only thing I don't like is the screw top..

 

[Beer_me_plz]

2 year old appfelwein

Appfelwein and cherry vanilla mead, both ready to bottle.

I have the same glass from your post. It says it's for whiskey but I think it's great for beer. Really concentrates the aroma.

 

[Native302]

I have the same glass from your post. It says it's for whiskey but I think it's great for beer. Really concentrates the aroma.

Yes, they are great.

 

[rideincircles]

Starting off with the basics at the moment.

2 gallons of JAOM
2 gallons of Joe's Grape Pyment
1 Blackberry JAOM (no orange or clove)
3 gallons of my friends JAOM
5 gallons of english Brown ale

Gonna do a 3 gallon batch of a proper berry mead with real yeast next and possibly a raspberry JAOM.

 

[Onihige]

Cinnamon Cyser, using baking yeast. Suprisingly tasty, especially after my first experiment with baking yeast. I doubt even prison inmates would've drinked that!

One is fizzy, other is still.