making a new batch of mead!

[amateurhour]

meant to get this started earlier in the week but I decided to play around with a new mead recipe.

I went to the local farmer's market this past Friday and bought 3lbs of honey from one of the local beekeepers and picked up a pink lady apple, a bosc pear, and some fresh cherries too.

Got the yeast Saturday morning and thinned out the honey with some warm water and put it in the jar, then added the fruit, then activated the yeast, then topped it off with some more warm water and closed it up with the bubbler.

This is going to be a sweet mead and if it works out in a couple of months I'm going to do a 5 gallon batch to bottle for Christmas gifts this year.

[mullet]

That ought to be good.

[jeffhalfrack]

We have a meadery down the road from me ,,it's big time ,,,they have wonderful favors I hope your adventure turns out like them!! But you will never be able to show up empty handed again good luck! JeffW

[PEARL DRUMS]

My bro in law tried a batch last winter. He didn't do anything more than ruin a bunch of perfectly good honey

Hope yours turns nicely.

[mullet]

If he didn't wait a winter or two after he made it to drink, yea, he ruined some good honey.

Good meade takes a long time to age.

[amateurhour]

Mead is bubbling strong! Was worried it wouldn't take but it set off sometime early Friday.

Started a 2nd gallon as a gift for my wife's family yesterday. It's nectarine and peach with 1 cinnamon stick. Should be ready around December.

Going to start a 5 gallon batch of show mead (basically just honey and yeast and water) and a 1 gallon cherry and plum mead in the next week or two.

[wizardgoat]

I've made many kinds of mead. The fruity stuff will finish up much quicker than the plain mead.  I let one carboy age for over a year before I bottles it, I racked it 4-5 times.
Half I left dry, the other half I back sweetened with a little more honey.
Mead is one of the easier things to home brew and be drinkable, just need to be very patient

[phyankord]