Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[gratus fermentatio]

Stamped the top to fancy it up for gift giving. Some were better than others.

Looks great! How did you get the colors to match up with the stamp design?
Regards, GF.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Looks great! How did you get the colors to match up with the stamp design?
Regards, GF.

Thanks for the feedback.
Blueberry mead, blue sealing wax and silver "ink" on a metal stamp. Just luck that the mead retained its color.

 

[JFARROILDOC]

View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446073378.799538.jpgJAOM. Still young hot and potent, but very consumable, my first homemade mead!!

 

[Jericurl]

Winter mead

 

[TheWeeb]

The last bottle of my Peach Mead, made over four years ago, just decanted into a very cool bottle. Need to find an appropriate event to drink it!

 

[HappyFermentations]

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It's still got a little while to go, but my JAOM cleared about a week ago after only a month. It's so pretty! It's gonna be all I can do to hold off on this. Better start another one asap.

 

[CKuhns]

Left to Right and Back to Front.

Back Row
Left - Honey waiting to be Mead.
Center - Hibiscus Tea Metheglin - Bulk Conditioning 3 Months to-date
Right - Hibiscus Tea Metheglin - Primary (Just added last Nutrient Batch today)

Front Row
Left - Green Label Bottle - 1st Mead ever - Orange Blossom and Wildflower - 14 Months in Bottle bulk aged 4 months - Aged well at 12 months in bottle real good. Almost gone.

Right - Blue Bottle Label - Bakers Honey and Orange Melomel 5 Months in the bottle after 6 months bulk aging. Getting good - Another 4 - 6 months will be awesome.

 

[NibblesMN]

Bochet aged on honeycrisp apples

 

[MadHomebrewer]

About a month old JAOM.
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[NibblesMN]

My raspberry/strawberry melomel in the bottle.

 

[Jericurl]

BlackBriar mead.

I think I'll bottle this in January.

 

[wc1376c]

First real Braggot kegged.
Wildflower honey, Hibiscus, Cascade and Progress hops

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[BGBC]

BRB melomel clocking in at 15.5%. Stiff pour of the bottling dregs. Texas brush honey, blueberries and raspberries. 9 months in fermenter, slight residual sweetness. Delicious.

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Just got results back on this one from a local competition. Scored a 42 and won a bronze in the specialty mead category, my highest comp score to date and first mead medal.

Both the gold and silver were awarded to coffee meads. Might have to look into that next...

 

[Pekkales]

Just got results back on this one from a local competition. Scored a 42 and won a bronze in the specialty mead category, my highest comp score to date and first mead medal.

Both the gold and silver were awarded to coffee meads. Might have to look into that next...

Sounds delicious! Could you share the recipe?

 

[BGBC]

Sounds delicious! Could you share the recipe?

Sure, some details from my notes:

3 lbs Texas brush honey (wildflower), 3 qts water, OG: 1.122

Used SNA, Yeast: 71b

Racked to a bucket after about a month (SG: 1.005), on top of 1 lb blueberries and 0.5 lbs raspberries in a weighted nylon bag

Racked to 1 gal carboy again after 2.5 weeks on fruit (SG: 1.010). Bottled 8 months later, FG: 1.005

 

[bob1852]

Pinot noir pyment

Just won BOS for meads/ciders at a statewide competition.

 

[Pekkales]

Sure, some details from my notes:

3 lbs Texas brush honey (wildflower), 3 qts water, OG: 1.122

Used SNA, Yeast: 71b

Racked to a bucket after about a month (SG: 1.005), on top of 1 lb blueberries and 0.5 lbs raspberries in a weighted nylon bag

Racked to 1 gal carboy again after 2.5 weeks on fruit (SG: 1.010). Bottled 8 months later, FG: 1.005

Thanks, will be trying this one for sure!

 

[HB_in_Subic]

Here is what I got going on now;

From left to right - BOMM - Tropical Honey (12lbs), 4 lbs Orange Honey, 1 lb Buckwheat @ 9 days (secondary)
BOMM - Orange Honey (15lbs) @ 9 days (secondary)
Saison Mead - Orange Honey (15lbs) @ 39 days (secondary)
Saison Mead - Texas Wildflower (15lbs) @ 72 days (secondary) will be bottled in 2 days...

 

[Frognostic]

Left this on primary too long, started on 31st October and only racked it today on the 17th November.

 

[Frognostic]

The July batch, left on Safale S-33 lees until today the 17th Nov.

 

[BGBC]

Left this on primary too long, started on 31st October and only racked it today on the 17th November.

More seasoned mazers might disagree with me, but I don't think 17 days is too long in primary.

 

[Stauffbier]

I'll play along.. 1.5 year old Blackberry Melomel.

 

[Frognostic]

More seasoned mazers might disagree with me, but I don't think 17 days is too long in primary.

If it had been in an airtight container with no headspace I wouldn't have been worried (after five or so days) but for most of that time it was in an open air plastic bucket covered by tea-towels haha.

I removed the towels and attached the lid on the last day or two but the lid is not airtight and there was lots of headspace in there.

My initial plan was to rack it into the glass jug around about the 4th or 5th of November but I got sick and didn't get around to it.

It's still fermenting by the looks of it but only just. My concern is that the prolonged air exposure oxidised it and possibly caused the yeast to metabolise the alcohol, reducing abv.

 

[BGBC]

Ah, got it. Yea, that's a good reason to rack earlier.

 

[ChefRex]

Blueberry melomel, ten months in the bottle, nice!View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447812022.348625.jpg

 

[HappyFermentations]

Just finished bottling my first batch of JAOM, or as I've now dubbed it, my Orange Blossom Special.

Plan is to crack one of the 750s at Christmas and hold on to the other as long as I can. The 12ozs will obviously go much sooner.

Pumped it turned out so good!

 

[TandemTails]

These started off as a 3 gallon batch of base mead that sat in primary for 50 days. I racked into the three 1 gallon carboys to test out a few different recipes.

The carboy on the left has a tincture I made with a stick of cinnamon and a vanilla pod added to it.

The carboy in the middle is just standard mead (I didn't add anything when i racked)

The carboy on the right has 4 cups of prickly pear juice added to it (which caused some additional fermentation, hence the gunk in the neck of the carboy)

They've been in secondary for 16 days now.

 

[Stauffbier]

Sorry for the crap photo.... This isn't my mead. It is actually a Capsicumel with red chilli from India that a good friend made. Very nice! Fresh honey in the aroma. The flavor is sweet honey with oranges and a unique flavor from the chilli. The heat from the red chilli starts out subtle, but then it sneaks up on you from the back end.

 

[wc1376c]

Getting this photo up before the forgetful holiday slam
2015 batches
L to R
Oaked Kraken and Ginger
Rhubarb
Plum
Apricot
Blueberry
Pear
Blackberry
Braggot V1

missing from this pic---
Caco Almond
Cranberry
Braggot V2

Happy holidays all and good brews next year!!!!!

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[wmcc75]

It's obviously not finished but this is what I woke up too this morning.

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