Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[The1Greenguru]

What Do the Meads taste like most of the time thanks for your time :rockin:

I would love to see a photo of all the different meads out there.

Show the photo and a quick description of what it is.

Cant wait to see all the photos!!!!!!!!!

 

[tuner240]

Yomamma's Strawberry Pizzaz

Here are pictures of the strawberry melomel after cold crashing and clearing up. I finished with ~3.5 gal @13.8% abv. Tastes great!! OG 1.130 FG 1.025. Sorry, the lighting isn't that great in the bedroom.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

those 'mels look clean as a whistle. Impressive.

 

[tuner240]

those 'mels look clean as a whistle. Impressive.

I have to confess the use of pectic enzymes for the clearing up of this melomel. This was my first melomel and I wanted to try different techniques to learn more. I followed Yomamma's vigorous fermentation plan, and fermentation completed in just 4.5 days. I doubled the yeast and the nutrients while following hightests SNA guide. I was probably PTC and aerating about 5 times a day. I have to say that this was a huge success IMO. But the fruit took up a lot of space, so a 5 gal batch yielded me only ~3.5 gal. I also used glass marbles to take up room in my carboy so that I wouldn't have to top off with water (the guys at my LHBS taught me that).

 

[SebastianS]

A from-scratch bumbleberry mead that just got bottled yesterday. Samples were, um... well let's just say it's a miracle there's any left.

Wait... Bumbleberry? Please enlighten me. It sounds delicious!

 

[DragonsLair]

No! I don´t pay. I made the labels and send it to print in A3 matte vinil paper. I cut with a blade... it takes a huge time, but in the end is nice Nice you liked!

Maybe this will save you some time, labor and money. I get my labels from WorldLabel.com (http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/wl-ol5100.htm). All their labels match Avery formats and come in a variety of materials including vinyl. I create my graphics in MS Word's label feature and print on my HP 1500 Color Laserjet.

 

[TwoJays]

Wait... Bumbleberry? Please enlighten me. It sounds delicious!

Honey was wildflower, and then we made a puree using raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and cherries (it was a little bit flying by the seat of the pants, so unfortunately I don't have specific data to share) and put it directly the primary. Fermentation was explosive for a short period, but not complete, and was super slow, but steady for about two months until it was where we wanted it. Racked it off the fruit goo and yeast and let it sit for another couple of months and then done!

Like many of the mels you might get at the store, it is a little sweeter than some traditional meads, but it's not overpoweringly sweet like many I've tried.

Next time around I may try something just to see if I can dry it out ever so slightly more, but it's perfectly enjoyable as it sits.

 

[TwoJays]

What Do the Meads taste like most of the time thanks for your time :rockin:

Have you tried mead before, even commercially?

 

[spongerob]

The vanilla bean in the bottle is just an attempt to do something with the bean from the fermentor. By the way this vanilla bitter orange mead was amazing and no it has not been filtered. Just cold crashed, racked, cold crashed again then bottled. This simple process has been very successful for me, most of the time.

 

[mooney]

Fancy a glass of bramble mead?

 

[amonamarth]

Just opened the first bottle of our mead this afternoon. Simple beginner recipe from Schramm's Compleat Mead book. Aged about 10 months...still a little harsh, so probably needs some more time. We didn't take a specific gravity at the beginning so no idea how alcoholic it is, but I can tell you I'm buzzed from this first glass!

And about the bride/groom champagne glasses - we recently got engaged and have decided to make a whole bunch of mead for the wedding, so these glasses seemed fitting!

 

[RedHaze]

My recently bottled meads.

In order.
JAOM, Peach, Chai, Blueberry.

 

[SireFelps]

Thanks for the tip! Surely I´ll gonna see that!

 

[mn_brewer_stpaul]

Apple cyser.

 

[kinison_fan]

... I filled the airlock with Titos vodka....it's about all it's good for

Wow. There are much cheaper vodkas to use as airlock sterilizer.

 

[shmafl73]

This is the beginning of my first try. 1 day in. 15lbs honey, 2 gallons water, heated to 155 for 15 mins, 1 tsp yeast energizer, 2 more gallons water then mead yeast. I think I am missing something. Anyone?

 

[Atek]

This is the beginning of my first try. 1 day in. 15lbs honey, 2 gallons water, heated to 155 for 15 mins, 1 tsp yeast energizer, 2 more gallons water then mead yeast. I think I am missing something. Anyone?

You're likely going to want more nutrient or that ferment may stall, at the least it will simply take months to ferment out.

 

[dennisjonesjr]

Started a Fireball Mead. Just one of the many pictures

 

[shmafl73]

You're likely going to want more nutrient or that ferment may stall, at the least it will simply take months to ferment out.

At what point should I add the nutrient? At 2ND ferment or now?

 

[dennisjonesjr]

I add nutrient and energizer day 1 when I'm mixing everything up. other people do a staggered nutrient addition. which is adding nutrient and energizer over a few day.

 

[Atek]

At what point should I add the nutrient? At 2ND ferment or now?

You can go either way, a lot of folks have had great success using the staggared nutrient additions method outlined in the sticky in the mead forum. It's a bit more work but it does work well. My first meads were just 3tsp nutrient up front, that may do ya fine too.

 

[mn_brewer_stpaul]

Blackberry on top. Apple cyser and raspberry on bottom. Hope these turn out. Used an eau de vie yeast coming close to 20% abv.

 

[gilliam]

Mead made from heather honey (very dark and with lots of flavours). Love the resulting colour and it's quite tasty. It's like instant metheglin.

 

[Atek]

Mead made from heather honey (very dark and with lots of flavours). Love the resulting colour and it's quite tasty. It's like instant metheglin.

That's gorgeous, is it dry or sweet?

 

[A50SNAKE]

Apple cyser.

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hi, can you please share your recipe for this cyser? I've made two myself, but I would like to compare as these were my first kicks at it.

thanks,

 

[gilliam]

That's gorgeous, is it dry or sweet?

It ended up with a final gravity around 1.010. There is some sweetness that creates a very nice balance with the rather spicy flavours.

 

[Brann_mac_Finnchad]

The light cherry cyser. Nice and drinkable, at about 8% ABV.

 

[Photobond]

Fall Cyser!!!

 

[chickabeelane]

That's an amazing color! Is it straight apple or is there something else in there as well?

 

[Photobond]

It's local wild flower honey with local, fresh apple cider. It turned out wonderfully! I almost want to stare more than drink... ALMOST.