I do. I was a semi regular poster in r/mead.
I think I have about 70L in secondary ageing at the moment, but nothing in primary atm
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
12 points (100.0% liked)
Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider
97 readers
1 users here now
A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.
Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.
Some starting points for beginners:
Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Very nice! I haven't made anything in so long. Got caught up building a racecar haha
I've been making mead pretty consistently for 4-5 years now. Super fun.
I've got a (planned) quick turnaround strawberry mead currently fermenting that I plan to filter, back sweeten, and add some lemon flavor in to have a strawberry lemonade mead on tap for the summer.
Otherwise I've got probably around 25 gallons aging in the basement, including some weird stuff like tomato mead, lambic mead, and sea water mead.
That sounds amazing, can't wait to hear how it turns out!
I plan to do a full writeup once it's done, I'll post it here when I do.
Slightly hijacking this to say that if anybody feels like writing a post about mead making along the lines of the beer one, it would help populate that sidebar there yonder.
I have bees finally, and I am going to ve looking into making Mead this fall or next, so that would be helpful
Hijack away! I'm basically still new at it, I don't keep records cause I'm crazy like that do I'm not gonna volunteer but it's a great idea to ask!
I picked up mead making as my pandemic hobby. Started with one gallon and ballooned from there.
That's how I started lol
Right? The first one in the jar, and the blurb blurb of the bubbles just spoke to me. Then it was like well this’ll take awhile, I should just start another!
I normally have a batch or two ready to rack about now, but life has had other plans this year.
I have a limited amount of bottles specifically so I can't just keep making more lmao. I know who I am as a person.
I've made 3 batches of mead so far. A sweet, a semi-sweet and a dry. My favourite by far was the semi-sweet, and it only took about a month to finish clear and be drinkable!
Sounds lovely. I'm great at not writing down what I did so my really fantastic one I haven't been able to recreate.
Rule no. 1 of brewing, record keeping! 😂
🤣🤣 what are these rules? I need no rules! (I should probably follow the rules)
I bought a bunch of local honey and made some mead, and it was one of the nicest things I've ever brewed. Quite alcoholic, and tasted like flowers.
Been a while since I last made mead. I need to find me a good source for some honey and fix this. Best I ever managed to make was a blackberry mead, a good while back. Used a whole lot of foraged berries, real flavory and unexpectedly sweet. After the yeast finished fermenting it was still full of sugary goodness so I added champagne yeast and fermented some more. Don't recall the abv I managed to get on it, and being the neanderthal that I am I didn't write it down.
I'm terrible at not writing things down. I'd love to know what I put in the one that turned out amazing.
I'm on my eighth or ninth batch of mead - like other folks I started with single gallons and then got hooked on brewing.
Lately I've gone in bulk on bottles so I can brew a batch each of mead, beer, wine etc. so I don't have to sit through 5gal of a single flavor before trying something new :D
I plan to make mead this fall. For now only beer, cider and once wine.
Forgotten bottles are usually the best thing you taste or it turns out to be horrible (from my experience it is the first option). Cheers
I make mead
view more: next ›