Category: Melomel
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Strawberry Lemon Session Mead

This is such a quick and easy mead to make, all you need is a keg to force carbonate and you’re set! Of course this can be amended, simply make this a dry mead and bottle carbonate. Recipe:1/2 packet Lalvin EC1118 yeast1 tsp Lemon Peel1 lb Lemon Blossom honeyGoferm & FermaidO following TOSNAOptional: Opti-White Secondary:Racked…
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Peaches & Cream Mead

I had a few snags with this mead that makes me want to try re-making it in order to fulfill my original image of what this should be. Before this mead re-fermented, the flavor was so perfect and decadent – it was TRULY a Peaches & Cream Mead. Unfortunately, the second ferment altered the mead’s…
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Fig Mead

OMG ya’ll… I love this mead! It’s so rich and figgy, such a lovely mead for the fall/winter seasons. The key here, to be honest, are the dried figs. You can’t just use fresh figs, they don’t provide nearly enough flavor, but they do add to the mouthfeel and fullness of the mead. The only…
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Cherry Créme Mead

This mead was immediately so lovely and smooth! The cherries are softened by lactose and lactic acid, so that the acid profile is round and balanced. This is the first of several meads where I experiment with lactose and lactic acid. Honestly, the effects made by those ingredients/additives are really incredible, they really transform your…