
Bochet Mead (Ever Try Caramelized Honey?)
Of all the brewing recipe possibilities, bochet made me nervous. I am a cold-method meadmaker. I heat water as little as possible to mix with the must, and heat the [..]
Of all the brewing recipe possibilities, bochet made me nervous. I am a cold-method meadmaker. I heat water as little as possible to mix with the must, and heat the [..]
It’s going to be a tough year for cherry melomels, cherry wheat beer, cherry lambic, and (sob!) cherry pie. I have a cherry mel in secondary that needs a boost. [..]
This is a recipe in progress for a sparkling ginger mead. I’m adding all my thought processes and decisions here. I’m making it for my friend Cynthia, unless she tells [..]
This is my collection of books of modern how-to on beer and mead – all the books I currently have in my library plus a few. There are even a [..]
Most recently updated October 21, 2017 I am chagrined each time I see someone online asking whether there are period sources. You bet there are! Here is a running list of [..]
This has taken two silver medals so far this season (Merrimack valley Homebrew Competition and Meadlennium in Florida) and just helped me win the coveted title at the SCA event known as the Baronial [..]
What shall I call my very first cyser, in primary this very morning? I used a recipe that took a gold in last year’s AHA competition which sounded particularly appealing [..]
When I first got this honey, it tasted like thistle looks – spiny, kind of hairy, very green. It took a long time to age out (measured in years, not [..]
This is another recipe from the gotmead.com site, which if you make meads you should probably know about. It’s very pleasant, and with enough malt that I’d call it a braggot, [..]
This is from the GotMead.com website. If you like to make mead and you don’t know that site, you should. I find the recipes uneven, but the community’s really helpful. [..]
I have made this and found it to be light and very pleasant with dinner on a hot summer night. That said, it is too light and not apparently sweet enough [..]
An acerglyn is a maple syrup-honey combination mead. Don’t you just love the old, arcane vocabulary of meads? I have a batch of this, without the spices, in the bottle aging. I [..]