Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[tarpit]

My Home grown sour cherry mead.


Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

 

[andrewcoopergt]

Thanks! The dates and peppers and repeated rackings and many samples reduced the original five gallons to just over three, but I am okay with it. Are you also doing a GOT mead (see the GOT thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/game-thrones-mead-397184/)

Sadly I did not get into mead soon enough to get one going! Maybe I should start one for the season after this one...


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[leeford337]

Heres my first mead, simple sweet raspberry! Need to get some printer ink to make my labels then they will need to sit for quite some time before they taste any good. But not ive got an empty carboy that needs some joam!

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Home Brew mobile app

 

[Stumpylegs]

I found a great source of local TN honey and wanted to experiment. Made a 4 gallon batch BOMM style, let it get down to 1.020ish, stabilized then split it off into these. Left to right: Plain, for comparison; Lime/jalapeno; strawberry; and blackberry/vanilla. Will update pics as the process continues!

 

[Damgaard]

First batch, cleared nicely with a half teaspoon of bentonite (one gallon batch). Drinkable after a month...would clearly get better with age but it will never make it


American by Birth
Viking by the grace of Odin

Seeking peace through mead.

 

[sierrabravo1984]

This is my latest, an apple cyser. I used 1.5 gallons of apple juice and 0.5 gallons juiced apples that were about to go south, 32 oz dakota clover honey. Came out to just shy of 2 gallons (10 bottles). I'm not very creative with labels, so I just whipped together some things pasted together from google. Bottled it today. I took the leftovers from the racking cane's hose for sampling, and it tastes like a strong apple juice with a kick, have yet for the other flavors to come forward.

 

[JTehFreakS]

This is my first mead I bottled; it's a dry traditional made with some local wildflower honey. I've bulked aged it for 3 months before getting impatient and bottling it the other day. There's still a bit of alcohol bite, but so far I'm liking the flavor. The wife likes it too, so that's super points in my book!

 

[rustyknives]

Finished my braggot last week and bottle conditioned it, just opened one to see if the conditioning worked. Tastes like a sweet light beer.


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[leeford337]

Finished my braggot last week and bottle conditioned it, just opened one to see if the conditioning worked. Tastes like a sweet light beer.View attachment 190251


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Wow, sweet mug! Any idea where I could find one like that? ? Thanks!

 

[rustyknives]

Wow, sweet mug! Any idea where I could find one like that? ? Thanks!

Haha i actually got it in a thrift shop in Scotland soooo, that doesn't help you much hahaha. It was a great find though, even has my name on it already!

I would check the internet, you can fine anything there i hear ;P


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[TheWeeb]

Posted on the GOT thread, sorry if you will see it twice. Waiting to be opened tonight for Season 4, a bottle of my Game of Thrones mead created a year ago to the day. I trust it has aged well and retains the fiery sweetness inspired by Daenerys Targaryen. To her, may I quote: "My sword is yours. My life is yours. My heart is yours."

 

[rowsdower44]

A picture of my Candy Cane Mead I just bottled. It's pinkish hue dropped out in secondary but retained a strong peppermint aroma. I'll wait til December to open up a bottle.

 

[Kdog22]

My farm chilli mead in its secondary, clearing up nice and my new bhut jolokia mead made today,,,,,

Sent from my C6903 using Home Brew mobile app

This sounds absolutely horrific and awesome at the same time.

 

[roastquake]

View attachment 189435

First batch, cleared nicely with a half teaspoon of bentonite (one gallon batch). Drinkable after a month...would clearly get better with age but it will never make it


American by Birth
Viking by the grace of Odin

Seeking peace through mead.

Where can I get a horn and stand like that one?!

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

5 Month old Blackberry mead hydrometer sample.

 

[SinginChef]

[/URL][/IMG]

This stuff is young, but already really tasty.

 

[JRW1]

wow I began my last two meads march 28 too! cool coincidence!! it must be finishing sweet!

 

[jpwic]

My first batch of mead just put in the carboy! Needs to be topped off still after fermentation has died down!

 

[SinginChef]

wow I began my last two meads march 28 too! cool coincidence!! it must be finishing sweet!

Actually, I bottled it on the 28th, and Started it on 2/09. Still, the 28th seems like it's a good day for Mead!

 

[JRW1]

These are my two meads going right now, one on the left, the more orange one, is a show mead with raw honey from Oakland, one on the right is a peach tea mead with snapple peach tea and honey from oakland as well.

 

[SinginChef]

These are my two meads going right now, one on the left, the more orange one, is a show mead with raw honey from Oakland, one on the right is a peach tea mead with snapple peach tea and honey from oakland as well.

Is the raw honey from Oakland "Wild Mountain Raw honey"?

 

[JustinCider]

​

 

[JRW1]

Is the raw honey from Oakland "Wild Mountain Raw honey"?

YUP, super good honey. local honey is definitely the way to go, as local honey is so good for the immune system. im sure some of those benefits come through the mead.

 

[SinginChef]

YUP, super good honey. local honey is definitely the way to go, as local honey is so good for the immune system. im sure some of those benefits come through the mead.

haha thats crazy. that's the same stuff I used!

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Gravity sample of my blueberry mead. Needs more time.

 

[Rotgut]

Is the raw honey from Oakland "Wild Mountain Raw honey"?

From what I've heard, although the company is based out of Oakland, it's not actually local honey. It's sourced from various parts of the world. I believe it's a mix of US, Mexico and India honeys. I have no proof of this - just hearsay gathered from other mead websites. I did some research on it a while back when I was looking for local honey for allergies. I use Wild Mountain Raw Honey sometimes as well. It's decent, but not the best.

I'm lucky enough to have a neighbor with bee hives, so I usually buy liter jars from him, both for meads as well as just a household sweetener. 100% local and 100% raw.

 

[Snobbles]

My first bottled mead.
Kev


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[Yohef]

3 gallon traditional at second racking. Mostly made with clover honey and step-fed with mesquite honey. I've taken to calling it the "Beast-Mead" because the yeast have gone into beast mode and chewed through everything I've added. It's currently at over 18% and 1.001-1.000 and still going.


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[SinginChef]

From what I've heard, although the company is based out of Oakland, it's not actually local honey. It's sourced from various parts of the world. I believe it's a mix of US, Mexico and India honeys. I have no proof of this - just hearsay gathered from other mead websites. I did some research on it a while back when I was looking for local honey for allergies. I use Wild Mountain Raw Honey sometimes as well. It's decent, but not the best.

I'm lucky enough to have a neighbor with bee hives, so I usually buy liter jars from him, both for meads as well as just a household sweetener. 100% local and 100% raw.

I like that stuff a lot, but I haven't really tried a lot of different honeys. One of the main reason I like it, is the price, and it still makes good mead. I gotta look around for some local bee farmers in Sacramento and buy from them.

 

[rustyknives]

Made a berry mead by dry fermenting a traditional and then racking it onto some thawed frozen mixed berries. Bottled it into a large wine bottle with a zork, and then this:


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew