Any Mead Makers In Here?

[acappellasaurus]

I've been a casual homebrewer for a while now, but am deciding to try my hand at mead (fermented honey). Any other mead makers present in here?

 

[RevdKathy]

I made mead (or to be technical metheglin) a long time ago. Worked pretty well. THat was the year the lightening brought the apple tree down and I made apple wine as well. Good luck!

 

[DonIago]

I have friends who are mead makers of some renown within a medieval reenactment group, but they're not on this forum AFAIK.

 

[acappellasaurus]

I have 3 batches rolling right now. One I started a week ago and is an orange blossom honey with a small amount of pears and 2 vanilla beans in it. The other two I started today, one a macadamia nut honey, straight up, and the other a small batch of experimental "coffee mead", using coffee as a substitute to water. The orange blossom and macadamia are both 5 gallon batches.

 

[Sephiroth]

working on a batch (my first, actualy) with honey from a local beekeeper, and a twang of hatch green chillie

 

[Misfit Toy]

I made mead (or to be technical metheglin) a long time ago. Worked pretty well. THat was the year the lightening brought the apple tree down and I made apple wine as well. Good luck!

See? You make meth and then lightning strikes! I hope you've learned your lesson, young lady!

 

[John Picard]

Mead is some good stuff. I attended a few meetings of a local brew club where some members tried their hand at mead. I learned that mead is to be judged like wine, since it gets better as it ages. One member tried his hand at a Merlot, which we all agreed, after sampling, would really be something when the rest of the batch aged an additional 6 weeks.