Finished bottling my mead!

It's going to be a very Merry Christmas! Made about 10L of this delicious honey wine, gave some away as Christmas presents. Saving the official un-corking for the Season 2 Game of Thrones premier, if you can tell by the label I made

 

Pure Aesomenessiesm

 

That is so fucking awesome....

I am so jealous!

 

What a coincidence, I just bottle my first batch last week, though it was only a single gallon.

I have 3 gallons of cyser bubbling away as we speak. Hopefully it will be in good shape for gifts by next Christmas.

 

Wow, that is very cool. Love the label!

 

@acoOspades, I wanna be your friend....

 

I've never had mead. What is it like?

 

That looks awesome! How difficult was the process? There's a meadery near me that I've been to a few times for tastings. I'm a fan!

 

Asking what mead is like is not much better than asking what beer or wine is like. There is a huge amount of variation, so much so that it belies description, other than a general description of a fermented beverage which features honey on the list of ingredients.

There are sweet meads and there are dry meads, much like wine. There are also beer-like meads, though I don't have any experience with those.

 

Aha. I've been meaning to try some. I'm not usually into sweet drinks, so I might try to find something closer to the beer end. Though there are some sweet beers I like.

 

As said above, there is a huge variety in mead, I made a drier mead, at ~ 14% abv. Do you know what recipe he used? What type of yeast? I was sure to only add a certain amount of honey because I didn't want it being too sweet.

 

This is the recipe I followed. I put it together about a week before the end of September, it cleared in about 6 weeks @ 68F (I have a cabinet in the basement that by virtue of it's location, relationship to the ductwork and pure dumb luck is always within a degree of 68). We cracked the first bottle tonight with my sister-in-law and her boyfriend, we emptied the bottle in short order. It was sweet but very tasty and quite impressive for being barely 8 weeks old.

http://www.gotmead.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1938&Itemid=14

It was so good that this weekend, if time allows, I'm going to start a 3 gallon batch.

 

It does look good.

Ever since seeing them drink mead in The 13th Warrior, I've wanted to try some.

 

I was going to do a JAO but decided to do a straight show mead instead. Mine is just water, yeast, honey, and a bit of nutrient to ensure a vigorous ferment. Next time I might do an orange spice but I also kinda want to do a raspberry melomel

 

Mmm. Sounds tasty. I would like to be your friend too, please!

 

Silly TFPers don't know you're already all my friends

Drop me a line when you make it to Vancouver and there's a glass of mead in it for you. As long a it's after April. It won't be delicious until after then anyway. I mean, it's good now, but it will soon be delicious.

 

Very kind invitation, ace0spades.

I can't believe I've not yet been to Vancouver. My grandfather told me some fantastic stories from his days as a 14 y.o. cook in a lumber camp there just after the turn of the 20th century. Someday!

 

Looks good. I got some B Nektar for Christmas.