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The Jalapeno mead cleared so well

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Honey suckle and bochet

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Make this pineapple mead 3 gallons of pineapple juice. And 2 gallons apple jucie. 3 5lbs of honey and a white labs mead yeast.

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Our IPM (India Pale Mead) got a new name and a new label!

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Bottling day!!

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Funny because it's true

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Finally got a dream ingredient of mine! Prickly Pear!

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Gifted my buddy a bottle of mead. Is he a genius or a monster?

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Genuine Ethiopian Tejj

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Meat mead anyone?

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Home brew equipment up for grabs in Nashville, TN

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It was crystal clear when i bottled it, what are these floaties?

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Brazilian Mountain Honey mead

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Quince mead plus uninterested dog.

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Put together a really quite lovely Apricot and Vanilla Bean Mead, hits the spot!

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Nord Juice - The NEIPA that is actually a Hazy Mead

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This is my kveik kvass braggot experiment

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First try at making mead. I dont have proper airlock and i used grocery store yeast but who knows maybe it will work

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Found this local mead in my liquor store today, looking forward to trying some so I can compare with the stuff I've started making

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Label concept for my first batch of Bochet

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The first bottle of my September 2020 metheglin, crystal clear and a beautiful pale amber colour.

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1st batch done!

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Pretty much stocked up for the year now. Roughly 25 batches worth of honey here boys.

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I've got a lot of bottling to do!

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After almost 2 years I finally decided to do labels - descriptions in comments.

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Belgian Tripel Braggot aged in a gin barrel, canned. 12.5%

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Batch for my and my friends wedding.

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Look guys, I made purple drank!

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It took over 3 months of troubleshooting, but I finally finished my first cyser, I present of Ruin and Preservation, a cinnamon cider cyser. Details in comments.

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My first bottle ever!

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Strange Brew...

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Final bottle from September batch! 12% Vanilla and Oak

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Just started a batch of strawberry hibiscus mead!

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Cherry mead bottled! It's actually not bad. Definitely my first decent mead!

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Making my First Traditional Mead!

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My first attempt at mead. My daughter is turning 21 in November and a big Skyrim fan so Blackbriar mead it is! No worries- the airlock went on right after the photo was taken.

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Soon to be double fruited tropical mead

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Found this on facebook, credit to Eric Anderson

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My new Mead bottles for Christmas gifts have arrived. Should I wax the tops?

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My first bottle of Cyser!

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RIP to My First Hydrometer 12/9/23-3/13/24

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Strawberry Lime Mead

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I've heard about racking onto star sans but is this to much? I think I should let it air dry.

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12 New Additions to the Mead Closet - More info in the first comment

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So turns out Hibiscus mead is delicious

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Would you bottle this?

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Rules of Mead

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My friends and I started making mead for fun in our dorm rooms. This is our first bottle, which we’re going to open and drink when we graduate.

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This just felt appropriate.

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Started a blueberry mead this weekend

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Bottling day! Still shocked and amazed at the clarity!

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I was told to split my nutrients into three equal parts for SNA, but it seems like lot of work. Any advice?

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My cherry melomel during the recent heatwave: Before & During

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Anyone had luck with Kirkland wildflower honey? It's $9.99 for 5lbs.

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I’m trying a thing

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I know it’s not clear and I don’t care. This full cider brew is a personal best for flavor and ABV ~15.9%

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First try

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Lemon Elderflower Cyser

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So much pain in a single image

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Just bottled 7 month old bochet @12 %.. absolutely delicious indeed..

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first glass!

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Two gallons of mead at the two week mark!

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MFW I accidentally add four days of Fermaid O in a single dose and my mead starts rumbling like a volcano

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First sampling of my Weirouge (red flesh apple) Cyser. Started November, bottled in January. Tartness started to mellow and at red wine temperature the honey starts to get noticeable. Now going for lower temperature to see what works best.

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Dandelion Mead. Tastes like summer!

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Not a bad haul for $100 CAD. Bucket at bottom left is 5kg raw honey.

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While We're Sharing our Brewing Build-outs

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My girlfriend brought home some Polish Dwojniak sweet mead. It's dummy thicc and boozy as hell.

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Cherry mead

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Another waterless tomato mead update

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Using stuff like this in secondary?

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I got tied of keeping track of brews in a notebook, so I decided to merge my hobby with my career and make a Database for my mead.

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Used to brewing beers, tried mead this time.

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Having some fun with the label. Gonna give this one to a friend who is going to be a first time daddy soon.

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Kveik Voss hydromel, ready in six days!

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Blueberry Mead, 2nd ever batch!

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Hibiscus plum bottled. My little gallon experiment won't last past the solstice surely.

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July Challenge: Root Beer Mead

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F to pay respects

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Zero Figs Given 2.0 (cracked 20%)

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Any Skyrim fans out there?

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90% beetroot juice 10% apple 71B 2lbs wildflower honey.

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I don't care what y'all say, I'm tryinging it again. Bananas foster bochet.

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Making that mead with juniper berry mixed in.

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My finest yet

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Mead distillate? Any experience?

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When you run out of room on the glub glub shelf(named by my son)

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Present from my partner. Coriander/Cilantro honey tastes really unique. Looking forward to a small batch of traditional!

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Should I be concerned, the contents are slowly rising

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Shower beers are so last season...take a step back to the traditional choice of beverage

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In case anyone had feelings of inadequacy from seeing all these beautiful mead workshops...

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Proud of this batch of Bee Pee. My first shot at a creamsicle mead.

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New equipment attained. (For free!)

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My first mead!

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New Apartment Brew Space!

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Today was a good day. L-R: Maple Wine, Buckwheat Acerglyn, and a melomel made with tart cherry juice, local berry medley, and local honey.

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Whoops

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Is this mold?? Or is it safe?

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Don't worry about it...let your mead age!

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You know who you are

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First Mead Ever!! We’ll see how it goes.

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MAN DOWN!!

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Wife and I started a batch of mead for our anniversary last year. This year we're drinking it.

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I just corked these yesterday and the corker I used didnt push them all the way. Would there be any problem removing the corks and recorking with a better corker? I plan to age the bottles for 6-9 months.

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Here are the Skyrim recipes for those who want or need them. The link to the actual recipes should work and the images should be readable. Thanks!

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Viking Blood 17.83% Bulk aged 2yrs

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May I present you: the colour purple

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New around here, how we looking?

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First Five Gallon Batch Bottled!

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72 hrs after start. I have no clue what I'm doing. (more in comments)

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Got my first ever bottle of mead and a genuine drinking horn to go with it!

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I brewed 4.5L of Honningbrew mead (cyser) according to the recipe given in Skyrim. It's 15.3% ABV and it tastes amazing!

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Brewing in Florida summer can be a challenge, this is how I drop the temperature without spending alot of money and using up extra space with a brew fridge. Two gallons of water in the wash basin, wet towel and the ice sticks to the towel and slowly melts dropping the temp by about 5°F below RT

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What do you think of those labels

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Inventing a little doohickey to prevent blowout

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Today I bottled my very first mead. It isn't much but it's honest work.

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Uhhhhhh Sh*t

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Precious cargo

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This is an excerpt from the book: Moon Magic by DJ Conway. Has anyone made a mead with “1 round of toast” ?

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It's bottling day for blueberry oak honey wine

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First brew about 2 weeks in is this infected?

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Basic mead from 2016 I found tucked away. Hints of dishrag and and subtle notes of old shoe. Clarity is fantastic however.

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My latest mead

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Almost 3 years of brewing mead with many different flavors, but I still just love the classic mead! Recipe in comments

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Wild Yeast mead. My first try.

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Saying goodbye to some bottles I'm passing out to coworkers tomorrow

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first mead ever, went with blueberry. thoughts?

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How to avoid disturbing the yeast cake when bottling?

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Boy I hope I'm ok at this hobby.

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Was at a small breweries store this week and grabbed one of each beers they had. Labelled „honey beer“ which commonly is just a honey flavored beer. Just realized it’s a full fledged Braggot at 10.7% abv. Extremely delicious! First real Braggot i ever seen in Germany. Would have bought so much more!

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I have no graphic design experience, but I'm pretty proud of how these labels turned out!

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Picked up some cool new varietals. Excited to make some brews with these!

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Sack mead so clear you can read Beowulf through it.

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Today it has been 8 years since I bottled my first batch of mead. I didn't know about mead but I did about beers. I went to the beekeeper, bought 4kg of honey, dumped them in 20L of water and boiled it for 2h. Used ale yeast. The result was a 7% hydromel, quite bad. There is one bottle left today.

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First attempt

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Can I age in these jars?

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First mead beginning, Sacramento wildflower sourced honey. Really looking forward to it :)

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Alright which one of you did this?

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First traditional mead with no clarifiers. Proud of this one

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Stocked back up on vanilla. The smell right now is unreal.

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First batch

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What now?

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Peachy. I think there are better uses for fresh Georgia peaches. It's yummy, but it took 4.5 -5 pounds of peaches per gallon, and I could have doubled that for a true peach flavor

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First mead bottled and ready to age! blood orange and key lime

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5 months later. Skyrim Honningbrew (Cyser)

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Got a bunch of these 96oz bottles, usable for primary fermentation?

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My last bottles of the year. Had as much fun doing product design as I had brewing it!

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48 hours into my first brew! My cat loves the bubbles...

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1st batch is excellent

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