Category: Mead
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Mushroom-Garlic Mead
A savory mushroom-garlic steeped mead that’s perfect for cooking and deglazing, and is surprisingly drinkable on its own! Originally Posted: December 16, 2023 Quick Specs Intro Background When I first got into mead-making—and brewing in general—one of the first books I bought was Make Mead Like a Viking by Jereme Zimmerman. One of the recipes…
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Beet Mead
A rustic country-wine style mead made with beetroot and wildflower honey. This beet mead is earthy, slightly tart, and a great way to use extra beets. Originally Posted: March 23, 2022 Quick Specs OG = 1.104 ABV: 13.7% Taste Profile: Earthy and slightly tart Time: 9ish months Yield: 22 bottles after sediment losses Intro Ever…
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Ube Mead
An experimental mead made using Ube Halaya and wildflower honey. Originally Posted: Dec. 7, 2021 Quick Specs OG = 1.105 ABV: 14.3% Taste Profile: Like a plain mead, but richer, and mildly earthy Time: about 4.5 months Yield: 27 bottles Intro After doing many simpler melomels and metheglins, I began looking into more unconventional brewing…
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Solera Cyser Project
The Solera Cyser Project, an experiment in years-long continuous aging of Apple Cyser Mead in the sherry style. Originally Posted: Apr. 23, 2021 Last Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 Quick Specs OG = 1.105 (base cyser OG) ABV: >13.8% (due to fortification with Calvados apple brandy) Target Taste Profile: Hopefully complex and sherry-like Time: Multiple years…
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Wine Racks: Tips & Tricks
Some wine rack tips and tricks for safe mead storage. Originally Posted: 3/29/2021 I got a question on Reddit the other day on how I have my wine racks set up (they were visible in the background of a picture of Honey-Fermented Garlic Mead). Since mead is such an investment in time, money, ingredients, and…
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Honey-Fermented Garlic Mead
Honey-Fermented Garlic Mead: A Rich Mead for Cooking or Drinking Originally Posted: 3/25/2021 Quick Specs OG = 1.105 ABV: 13.8% Taste Profile: Garlicky and rich Time: A few weeks as Honey-Fermented Garlic, plus a few weeks after adding water and yeast, plus a few weeks for clarification Yield: 1-gallon test batch Intro I first became…
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Date Mead
A recipe for mead using dried medjool dates. A quick tip: use a mesh bag. Originally Posted: Sept. 30, 2020 Quick Specs OG = ~1.105 ABV: ~12-13% Taste Profile: Rich and semi-sweet Time: ~3 months Yield: 21 bottles (lost some fluid to dried fruit sediment) Intro Around the time I was reading Ancient Brews by…
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Bochet Cyser
A recipe for a cyser (apple mead) with dark caramelized honey. Originally Posted: Sept. 29, 2020 Last Edited: Apr. 23, 2021 Quick Specs OG = 1.105 – 1.115 (depending on apple juice) ABV: ~12 – 14% Taste profile: Semi-dry, caramel notes, spices in the background Time: 6 months from start to bottling Yield: 5 gallons,…
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Harvest Pumpkin Spice Metheglin
My first true metheglin, a pumpkin spice mead. Originally Posted: Sept. 24, 2020 Quick Specs OG = ~1.120 (after step-feeding, apple juice, and maple syrup) ABV: ~15-16% Taste Profile: Pumpkin spice-y Time: 8/24/19 – 10/26/19 (63 days) Yield: 29 bottles Intro When Autumn comes around, I’m one of those people that likes spiced foods and…
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Pear Mead
My first attempt at making a Pear Mead, using a fruit wine concentrate. Originally Posted: Aug. 8, 2020 Quick Specs OG = Originally I forgot to take into account the SG of the pear wine concentrate I was using: 18.9 Brix or 1.0781 SG from just the pear concentrate alone (was originally meant to be…