Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

[CA_Mouse]

Racked a gallon of 6 month old mead on to 800g of cooked brambles and another gallon onto 50g of dried elder flowers.

Where did you get those gallon jugs? I love the double loop rings.

 

[fossilcat]

Mesquite Honey oaked with American Med Toast. Very simple but maybe my favorite. I love the non-color too.

 

[mooney]

Where did you get those gallon jugs? I love the double loop rings.

They are just standard 5l demijon to be had from any brew shop. What kinda jars do you have?

 

[CA_Mouse]

They are just standard 5l demijon to be had from any brew shop. What kinda jars do you have?

Mine only have the single loop ones.

 

[Chris_The_Rogue]

Mooney, CA_Mouse. Judging from Your default mesurements id say your in different countries.

 

[T_Baggins]

it all starts here...

 

[CA_Mouse]

Mooney, CA_Mouse. Judging from Your default mesurements id say your in different countries.

Just looking at the plugs on the wall already told me that @Mooney is in Europe.

 

[Alskuld]

2 gallon batch of strawberry mead, picture was taken at the day of bottling on august 11th 2016. Created my own recipe for this. The ingredients are as follows: 2,4 kg strawberries, 1,4 liters organic acacia honey, 0,9 kg mixed flower honey, 3/4 tsp acid blend, 1 tsp pectolase, 1,5 tsp nutrients, Vintners Harvest SN9 wine yeast, back sweetened with white table sugar to reach SG of 1.002. Came out 13,3 % alcohol and tastes really good at bottling stage, the bottles will be stored and aged for at least six months.

 

[Jericurl]

Almost traditional
Erlking mead
Eldercherry Frankenmead

 

[JFARROILDOC]

View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1476569828.099299.jpgJAOM ten days shy of one year in bottle

 

[Vrishnak]

Almost traditional
Erlking mead
Eldercherry Frankenmead

How long did it take for the mead in your picture to get to that clarity? The color is amazing.

 

[Jericurl]

How long did it take for the mead in your picture to get to that clarity? The color is amazing.

Almost traditional was started on 10-05-15. It was pretty clear @ 6 months or so if I remember correctly.

The Erlking was started 12-20-15. This one usually clears up fairly quickly, depending on the clarity of the apple cider or apple juice used.

Eldercherry Frankenmead was made from two different batches that were started on 01-5-15 and 03-07-15. They were crystal clear when I began tinkering with them around March of this year. Despite many additions, they never clouded up.

Adding bentonite during primary is something I've started doing and it usually results in crystal clear clarity and tightly compacting lees.

 

[bernardsmith]

it all starts here...

Sorry but it can't start "here". Distilled water has no minerals. Distilled water is OK for making cheese not mead. You want to use spring water. Mead can start there. :rockin:

 

[Vrishnak]

From left to right: 3lbs Sourwood honey, 1lb wildflower honey mead. 3lbs, 11oz Orange Blossom honey mead, 3lbs Gallberry honey and Apple Cider cyser. For the record to the above poster, the middle Orange Blossom mead was made using Distilled water.

 

[pmg]

First JAOM ever

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[TandemTails]

Top shelf: 2 gallons of lactomel group brew (i'm probably going to dump this batch...), 1 gallon bochet w/ coffee, cinnamon, cocoa nibs and vanilla bean, 1 gallon blueberry hibiscus w/ oak+vanilla (pulled off from a 6 gallon batch to experiment with).

Bottom shelf: 3 gallons fresh pressed cider, 3 gallons tart cherry cyser, 2 gallons blueberry/blackberry/ginger, 2 gallons apricot/peach, 6 gallons blueberry melomel w/ wyeast lambic blend

Not pictured: 3 gallons bochet cyser, 1 gallon tart cherry sour experiment

 

[Darthbrewder]

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First ever mead, in secondary.
Started this 10/3/16
1 gallon, 3 lbs of raw clover honey, lalvin ec1118. Transferred to secondary 10/22/16. In the background, 1 gallon pear wine in secondary.

 

[jamesbradbury]

My first attempt at making mead , about to rack into secondary, started this batch 25/09/16.The mead in the pail will be a strawberry and vanilla melomel.
I have just started a second batch which will be a pineapple melomel, blueberry, kiwi fruit and a apple cyser. In Western Australia we don't have a huge variety of honey or many home brew shops. Drunken plumber downunder

 

[roachvaliek]

Black braggot. Bottled 10/25

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[Jericurl]

Pear/cardamom/ginger mead. I ended up oaking this one a bit.

 

[T_Baggins]

First ever batch. Don't worry about the headspace, I topped off with Co2 and a few banana slices for nutrient.

 

[Deafmeadmaker]

Unusual choice in nutrient. May I ask why and are you looking to impart a fruity taste? Give us the details on the batch please. Is this a traditional? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[HB_in_Subic]

I added some chunks of banana in my first batch of mead for the additional potassium, I had zero flavors imparted from the banana (1 banana chunked in a gallon).

 

[Jericurl]

Banana is an excellent addition for improved mouthfeel and extra nutrients. I let mine get overripe to the point of blackness, then freeze.

When I'm ready to use, I thaw, chop up, and add to my primary at the rate of 1 per gallon.
It adds zero taste, but does quite a lot for mead/wine.

 

[DontTreadOnMe]

Thank you very much!... to all the great TEACHERS out there who made this possible You are a credit to this craft! . I cant believe we made this stuff!

pitched in February, just bottled;
Cherry Vanilla Mel, Blueberry Melomel and my favorite, the Traditional; on the end. also sneaking into the photo, 'Caramel Macchiato' wine, not cleared with sparkloid for the rustic look

"Very Good" at bottling and can only get better (fantastic in a year?), if they last!




The red is the Cherry Vanilla Mel (slightly Oaked)

 

[DontTreadOnMe]

One more......

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Crazy Sweet Cyser 2015

 

[roachvaliek]

Crazy Sweet Cyser 2015

Pretty

 

[Deafmeadmaker]

Crazy Sweet Cyser 2015

those are skinny bottles. Are they single serving size?

 

[Kraken907]

this is my first mead, ee have a 1 gallen apple cyser, i used 1 gallon apple juice, 3 lbs wild blossen honey, 1 honey crisp apple, and 1 packet champagne yeast, 1 tsp yeast neutrients. the dark spot there is from my camera, dropped and broke it.

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[Hoppy2bmerry]

those are skinny bottles. Are they single serving size?

All depends on how big your glass is. these are 375 ml.

 

[Darthbrewder]

Blueberry hydromel bottled a month ago. It's coming along nicely. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1481690676.627310.jpg I'm sure it has a ways to go but it is already tasting pretty good!

 

[Deafmeadmaker]

this is my first mead, ee have a 1 gallen apple cyser, i used 1 gallon apple juice, 3 lbs wild blossen honey, 1 honey crisp apple, and 1 packet champagne yeast, 1 tsp yeast neutrients. the dark spot there is from my camera, dropped and broke it.

Congratulations! Looks like you're off to a good start. Post a picture when it's done.

 

[eogaard]

Blueberry hydromel bottled a month ago. It's coming along nicely. View attachment 380493 I'm sure it has a ways to go but it is already tasting pretty good!

Wouldn't it be a melomel then?

 

[roachvaliek]

My mixed berry cyser (F.G. 0.995) (11.52% abv)

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[roachvaliek]

Anyone else notice how you never get the buzz from store bought that you do from homemade. I think they lie about there abv. Anheuser Busch got called out for that not too long ago, but it quietly went away. Interesting lol.

 

[biochemedic]

Wouldn't it be a melomel then?

technically, yes, but hydromel implies a lower gravity mead...

 

[Darthbrewder]

Maybe meldromel? Or bludromel? Or meldroblue...

 

[Maylar]

2 cysers taking their time to clear. Started 11/16, should be about 13% if I don't top up after racking.

 

[mooney]

Last of my first JAOM 4 years old
The mead has aged better than the label.

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