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Mead Day

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Mead Day

Did anybody make up any mead for the AHA Mead Day on saturday?  I made a 6 gal. batch of the Bill Pfeifer Commemorative Mead.  The batch called for 10 lbs. cherries, 8lbs raspberries and 20 lbs. of honey.  Man I spent a fortune on fruit for this one but hey in couple of years it will all be worth it.  Luckily one of my fellow brewers here is also a bee keeper and donated all of the honey to me!  I have it fermenting at 65 in the chest freezer right now and it is banging away nicely.

 

I made the Flight 19 Barleywine Mead recipe I saw on gotmead.com.  I added 6 pounds of honey after the boil and will be adding 9 more tomorrow afternoon.  I can't wait to see what it turns out like.

 

Barley wine mead!  Now that sounds interesting.  Did you just brew a small barley wine and then adding honey in stages?



 

Yes.  I made a 3.5 gallon barley wine (english style) and racked it onto 6 pounds of honey in primary.  Tonight I will rack onto 9 more pounds of honey and some lalvin 1118 and let that go for a week or two.  Depending on the flavor/gravity I may go to a third with a few more pounds of honey.

 

Very cool.  Guess you'd call that a braggot.  I'd ask you to let me know how it turns out but I imagine this one will be aged for upwards of a year or more.  I plan on doing something similar in the future.

 

I didnt even know there was a mead day.  Guess it doesnt pay to be oblivious....

I have a straight mead made from Tawari Honey that I will taste in about 11 more months (just bottled it),but that Melomel you're making Andrew, sounds awesome.  Cant wait to hear how it turns out!



 

I kicked off a Chocolate Aphrodisiac Mead.......yummmmm!

 

rhino777 wrote:

I kicked off a Chocolate Aphrodisiac Mead.......yummmmm!

Chocolate and mead?  Hmmm... can't "picture" it.... but then again I can picture honey and chocolate just fine and it sounds yummy.  There's another one I can't wait to hear the results on.

 

Jen wrote:

I didnt even know there was a mead day.  Guess it doesnt pay to be oblivious....

Check out beertown.org Lot's of cool stuff and happenings.  If you're not a member of the AHA I strongly recommend it.  Zymurgy subscription, tech talk email forum, pub discounts...

 

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