As the title would suggest, I'm making a batch of mead. This photo was taken over the weekend as I was transferring the batch out of the secondary, and back in to the fermenter where it will stay for the next 2-4 weeks. It's about 12%% ABV, and drinkable as-is, but this is not its final form. Ingredients used in fermentation were a large quantity of pumpkin flower honey, water, and Wyeast 4632; original gravity was 1.090, final gravity was 1.000. It still tastes somewhat sweet despite all the fermentable sugars having been fermented, with a bit of a spiced finish.
The bulk of the batch was racked on to a mix of blackberries, red raspberries, and golden raspberries at a ratio of about 3:
:1/2. The blackberries and golden raspberries were harvested from my back yard (the raspberry bush is visible in the background, behind the roses), the red raspberries were sourced from a local farmers co-op.
After the 2-4 weeks of infusing are done it will go back in the secondary for at least 90 days to mature and finish clarifying at which point it will be ready to be bottled.
P.S. - I don't know what happened to the formatting there in the middle, and I also don't care. Thanks for reading, or not.
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Black-briar or Honningbrew?
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This some Black-briar Reserve.
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Black Briar? How dare you shove that swill in my face. I'd rather drink mammoth drool! Black Briar Mead? What are you trying to do? Poison me?
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i get it! like game of thrones!
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Yea that's right! There you go buddy :D
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WHAT DID XHE MEAN BY THIS
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mead? more like PEED.
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That's Tang
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Lmao I'll try fermenting that too. I suspect it will taste like prison hooch. I wonder if NASA has a policy about making booze on the ISS? I know they've developed yeast cultures in space that were later used back on the ground to make some gimmicky beer.
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you moved it from primary to a secondary then back to the primary again then plan on going back to the secondary again
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Yeah, I only wanted to ferment the honey. The fruit is just for flavor, color, and a little back-sweetening. It's just easier to do the infusion in the primary, which has more of a bucket type lid as opposed to trying to force a nylon bag full of fruit through the little hole on the secondary and then fish it out again after a month. And I could just keep it in the primary to clarify again, but I need that to ferment more alcohol so back in the secondary it will go.
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oh okay if your primary is a bucket that makes sense I suppose
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i don’t think I ever tried mead bb but looks good n ur backyard just so beautiful 😭😭 ur rose bushes just 🤩😍🤩
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Thanks! They're not usually still blooming this time of year, but it's still hitting low 80s here so lots of weird stuff is happening in the garden.
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You finna get moneshine blindness.
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Hopefully you just put it out in the sun for a picture
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Yeah, it went in the fridge then I drank it. That's the stuff that was too close to the settled yeast to risk syphoning it out on to the berries, but not so close that I was willing to throw it away.
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If this is what vikings drank, no wonder they were so disagreeable.
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If you think viking mead is gross, you should try rakfisk. Now THAT is a dish that will make you unpleasant.
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Is that this stuff?
Warning: Bongs being very Bongish: lots of "mayte-mayte-mayte".
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No, this is not "stuff". This is a bong. A bong is a type of smoking device that is typically made of glass. It is used to smoke tobacco, cannabis, or other substances. Bongs come in many different shapes and sizes, but they all serve the same purpose.
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Feel like we might be all sixes and sevens there maytey.
Now the Queen has transitioned I feel the above Marsey is transphobic.
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We might be all sixes and sevens there maytey, but that doesn't mean we're not going to get the job done.
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That's so strange, I was just looking into making mead this past weekend. I don't drink but it seemed like a fun way to have cheapish christmas presents next year. Have you done any with strawberries?
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Not yet, that sounds really good though.
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I'll take the piss jar thank you
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Neighbor if your piss looks like this you should stop drinking so much honey
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This may sound harsh but in my experience the only people who brew mead instead of an alcoholic drink that people in the last 1000 years actually like to drink are absolute soylords who want to invoke some weird sense of viking manliness
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I make ciders and meads because they have a much longer shelf life than beer. It's hard for me to drink it all before the beer goes bad. Also I like brewing higher ABV stuff but I'm not in to barley wines.
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I hope that's glass, or enjoy your sunbaked plastic estrojuice
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That was just for the photo and I knew it would get consumed before the weekend was over.
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