Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[waxer]

Is all those bottles your own mead?! That's a lot of mead man!

Haha unfortunately not. Just commercial wines. Left in black shrink. Plan to fill all 130 on the left over the next 4 months though.

 

[Kdog22]

I might have posted this already, if so, apologize for the rerun, but this is the summer...

This is a basic mead - water and honey and yeast - with the addition of a "tea" from Halertauer hops - very noble - and fermented with a traditional Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast. The idea was to create a gluten-free beverage that is based in mead and has overtones of a Bavarian Hefewiezen beer.

Very subtle clove and banana, champagne like carbonation, very enjoyable, going to get this commercialized soon.

I love mead and hefeweizen happens to be my favorite beer. This sounds absolutely amazing. I feel like I need to try this recipe

How long did you let it age before bottling?

 

[danielofthedale]

Just racked off Primary into individual gallons. Left to right:
Elderberry (dried berries with a stick of cinnamon)
Orange Raisin Spice (3 oranges w/pith removed, cloves, sweet cinnamon and cassia cinnamon and raisins)
Ginger and Lemon (2 lemons pith removed, palm size hand of ginger)
Chai Tea (cardamom, 2 cinnamons, star anise, cloves, Irish Breakfast Tea)
Green Tea and Lemon (Gunpowder Green Tea and 2 lemons pith removed)

I may have put too much green tea in, time will tell.
I gave them all a squeeze of honey because it was dry, will probably have to sweeten more before bottling.

Would love to hear how the Chai turns out! I love Chai tea so I will definitely have to give that one a try sometime.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Just bottled some tart cherry mead and having a little sample that couldnt fit in the bottles. In a few weeks ill be bottling my jalapeno/cucumber

 

[rowsdower44]

A picture of my Strawberry Daiquiri Mead.

 

[Trubnoob]

I've been enjoying this thread so long that I thought I should contribute! Learning a lot on these forums...

In order these are: Show Mead with local (MN) Ames honey; JAOM; Cherry/Strawberry; Raspberry; Cherry Cinnamon

Waiting is the hardest part.

 

[TheWeeb]

I love mead and hefeweizen happens to be my favorite beer. This sounds absolutely amazing. I feel like I need to try this recipe

How long did you let it age before bottling?

For a three-gallon batch I boiled 1 gallon of water with 1.3 oz of Hallertauer for 30 min, flame out, added 5 pounds of honey, mixed well, topped with cold water to the 3-gallon mark, cooled, and pitched. OG 1.070, FG .992 ABV 8.5%, fermented for four weeks then transferred and allowed to settle for another eight weeks before force carb/kegged. We have a counter pressure bottle filler, and this bottle from the keg sat another three weeks before I opened it, and had some sediment at the bottom as it continues to clear. I am going to scale this up and make a 5-gallon batch for the fall and add a bit of clove.

 

[TheWeeb]

"Going to get this commercialized soon."

Can you explain?

Working on a business plan for a local meadery, would like to add this to the on-tap regular lineup

 

[Chuginator]

Working on a business plan for a local meadery, would like to add this to the on-tap regular lineup

Very cool!

 

[Kdog22]

For a three-gallon batch I boiled 1 gallon of water with 1.3 oz of Hallertauer for 30 min, flame out, added 5 pounds of honey, mixed well, topped with cold water to the 3-gallon mark, cooled, and pitched. OG 1.070, FG .992 ABV 8.5%, fermented for four weeks then transferred and allowed to settle for another eight weeks before force carb/kegged. We have a counter pressure bottle filler, and this bottle from the keg sat another three weeks before I opened it, and had some sediment at the bottom as it continues to clear. I am going to scale this up and make a 5-gallon batch for the fall and add a bit of clove.

I'm saving this to give it a try. Thank you for posting the recipe!!

 

[LittleHippieMama]

Would love to hear how the Chai turns out! I love Chai tea so I will definitely have to give that one a try sometime.

Thanks! I will let you know. I still have this all in secondary, so it will be a while before it is ready to sip...

 

[Dendion]

Just racked off 5.5 gallons of blackberry from primary fermentation, need to find vanilla bean... This is a spin off of the Wolf Moon Recipe, we are calling it "Viking Venom".

 

[macachoin]

Here is glass of 4 year old sparkling mead that turned out great. It lost its bubbles really quick, but it stayed pitulent and everyone at the table really enjoyed it.

 

[songe]

Well this is the start of something

 

[KGB09]

Here is the next melomel waiting. 15# fresh picked raspberrys.

 

[User]

I bottled this strawberry mead yesterday.

 

[NivekD]

My first mead. My version of JAOM. Used champagne yeast and 5 small cuties. Tastes great.

 

[Bluespark]

My rasberry is finally done! Exceeded the yeasts tolerance to finish dry. I like it dry, so that's alright. Made with wild raspberries picked in northern Alberta, and local honey. I found fish shaped bottles at the bottle recycling center that I found entertaining.

 

[Goofynewfie]

Traditional
Sg 1.118
Fg 0.990
16.72%
2.2lb wilflower
1lb buckwheat
Yeast lavlin k1v-1116
Staggered nutrient edition

 

[Goofynewfie]

Same mead but pic swmbo took

 

[turk6926]

Here is my vanilla mead.

 

[Cliclaste]

Just transferred my pineapple mango mead to secondary, can't wait to see how it tastes, smells perfect!

 

[Chef-Ryan]

Sadly no meed to show yet but seeing all the batches, pictures and information I'm eager to get started when the budget allows for start up stuff, I know its not allot of money for most things but I want to do it right and am on a tight budget right now.

 

[acanales]

Here are a few pictures of my raspberry melomel, it is very sweet and very high in alcohol. I just bottled last night and I'm pleased with everything so far.

 

[Casper9000]

My blueberry melomel I made about a year ago. Tastes good!

 

[StoneArcher]

Jaom

 

[jak1010]

Sadly no meed to show yet but seeing all the batches, pictures and information I'm eager to get started when the budget allows for start up stuff, I know its not allot of money for most things but I want to do it right and am on a tight budget right now.

Make a batch of JAOM.

 

[acanales]

Just threw together a 3 gal batch of jaom! Pretty excited from all the good things I've heard about it.

 

[zouthernborne]

Blueberry mead. Bulk aged in primary for seven months, then bottled yesterday directly from primary. A little hot, and a little yeasty, but has a decent taste chilled. I'm sure the flavor will really develope over the next year or so.

 

[turk6926]

Blueberry mead. Bulk aged in primary for seven months, then bottled yesterday directly from primary. A little hot, and a little yeasty, but has a decent taste chilled. I'm sure the flavor will really develope over the next year or so.

I am about to rack my blueberry and now this makes want to just put a straw in it and drink away