Tag: Mead Maker
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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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Strawberry Muscadine Elderflower Pyment
Another pyment, but using grapes that are grown and harvested in the South Eastern parts of America. It’s difficult to describe muscadine grapes to folks who’ve never had them, but they have a very specific sort of … musky(?) flavor to them. I found these in an Aldi for under $2 a pint and just…
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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…
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Wurtzburg Mead (Historical/German)
First off, I need to give credit where it’s due! I found this recipe on http://www.mysteryofmead.com (http://mysteryofmead.com/recipes/wurtzburg-mead-1350/), and the author of this website (Laura D. Angotti) wrote the book “Wellcome Mead”, which contains historical “receipts” from England, located in the Wellcome Library. You can also find the original documents scanned on http://www.Wellcomecollection.org. I did my…
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Ginger Peach Mead
Ginger and peach go well together… when the balance is right… which this is not. Now, don’t get me wrong, I LOVE ginger in my food, I love candied ginger, I love GINGER ALE, but I’ve discovered that I do NOT love ginger mead. I’ve had well made ginger meads before, and while my friends…
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Chardonnay Pyment
Pyments to me are really satisfying to make, and even more to drink. That may be because I’m a huge fan of wine, so mixing it together with mead just feels right. That pop of honey under the fermented grape flavor is just so good! This is the first time I cut down the usual…
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Dandelion & “Spring Flower” Mead
Do you have dandelions growing like crazy around your yard? Do you have access to fields that aren’t subjected to pesticide and insecticide? Well, perhaps you’ll be interested in making a dandelion mead! It’s easy to find classic, old-school wine and mead recipes online. Just be wary if those recipes tell you to add raisins…
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The Hydromel Series
At one point during the Pandemic, while I was in community college, I decided to make a couple of session meads for easy content. I had been wanting to try some sparkling sessions, but really… I just didn’t have time to film/edit/etc. I made three different meads, in the course of several videos… which were…
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Rosemary Raspberry Mead
Talk about a fun garden mead, the bright tartness from the raspberries really match well with the earthy rosemary. This mead is also sort of a landmark for me because it was after this that I started stabilizing. Until this point I just did my best to push my yeast to their limits, which really…
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Blueberry Acerglyn (Big Book of Mead Recipes)
Here’s the first recipe I attempted making (though I made a few changes). Instead of stabilizing… I didn’t, and I think that’s the largest change I made, besides perhaps the yeast. This recipe came from “The Big Book of Mead Recipes” by Robert Ratliff, which you can find here: https://bookshop.org/shop/faewoodmead This came out quite well…
Faewood Mead 