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 [..]
Category: Mead
Cherry Blues
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. [..]
Sparkling Ginger Mead
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 [..]
Books for Brewers: Basic List of Books of Modern How-To on Beer and Mead
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 [..]
Books for Brewers: Historical Primary Sources for Brewers
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 [..]
Cherry Pyment
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 [..]
My cyser needs a Daddy! Or Mommy. Name it! Bragging rights!
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 [..]
Thistle Mead
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 [..]
Mead: King Arthur’s Own
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, [..]
Rose Hip or Claymore’s mead
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. [..]
Ginger Rosemary Lime Mead
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 [..]
Mead with Maple: AcerMead
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 [..]