Serendipity: today is my birthday. My updated, certified birth certificate with my actual name just arrived in the mail. Today. On my birthday. My partner put together a dessert celebration for me with a single candle in the cake, for my first birthday with my name. This is so much magic.1yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
Lab Christmas party is tonight and we've been encouraged to dress up. In the spirit of the season, my favourite indie-made, special occasion shoes. I love them so much.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/Indiemakeupandmore
Found the perfect box to help keep all my precious perfume samples safe, today! I thought you all would appreciate it, or at least understand why that's so exciting. :)4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/Indiemakeupandmore
Special thanks to Solstice Scents and Notoriously Morbid for helping to complete my Halloween. Especially SS.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/Indiemakeupandmore
Just got an email congratulating me on being recommended for admission to my top choice for graduate school. Recruitment event is on my birthday. Partner has to work tonight so I made my own celebratory dinner and capped it with my smoked mango mead. Cheers, you gorgeous humans.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Not my first rodeo. I knew I was playing with fire and did it anyway; the universe has already chastised me for my hubris. So, for fun: what happened here? Wrong Answers Only.1yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Because it's that time of year and maybe some of you could use this:5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/TrollXChromosomes
Welp. Got the Christmas presents handled, today. 3 gallons bottled. By the time I'm ready to give them out, they'll be roughly a year old.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Partner's hours got mega cut at work; budget is ridiculously tight; can't go out so I'm having very, very busy brew days. Got four gallons of blackberry lavender racked, and started both an elderflower metheglin and a black currant and elderflower melomel. This is my serenity.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
I AM FUCKING GRADUATING! Saved a bottle of everything I've made since I started, specifically for this celebration. Tomorrow's hedonistic indulgence. There is, uh, a lot of booze.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
MRW my mother, who has spent the last 16 years of my life insisting she is really trying to find the money to come visit me, texts me this morning to let me know she and my dad will be spending Thanksgiving on a cruise ship in Mexico, this year.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/TrollXChromosomes
Witches, it has been a tough year. I decided to honor the solstice with a reading to talk about where I've been, and where I'm going. And then I had to share it with a group that could appreciate it. Because I couldn't have asked for a better reading.1yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
Luvmilk Mystery Box Haul: Monster Mash Edition. I'm so happy with this!5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/Indiemakeupandmore
Got up at 6:30 this morning to spend 2 hours in an MRI machine with an IV in my arm. Came home and started a 5-gallon batch of my lapsang hootch, looking like a goddamn lunatic back-country pixie witch, because it is the only way I can deal with this bullshit. Mead: it's like coping.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Patch 5.3 for FFXIV finally dropped today, so we're celebrating by cracking open some of my Black Lotus: black currant and elderflower. Worlds to save. Mead to drink.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
One more, because when I got everything put away, I felt so damn good. The collection, as it stands thus far. I've made the booze in every bottle on these shelves.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Welp. Now that I'm living in California, it's time to start trying California meads.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Brew Day Bliss: Blackberry Lavender! I have really started to appreciate the feeling of a familiar and repeatable recipe; it's like spending time with an old friend.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Finally got things neatly set up in the new apartment. Already working on replenishing the (slightly depleted) stocks.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Today in mad science: apricot cardamom mead slushie. (I told you I don't always look like a complete train wreck. Or maybe I do.)5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Got a bunch of goodies in today. The unlabeled bucket is a caramelized coriander honey, and I'll be using that as the base for this year's holiday spice mead. Lots of delicious things in my future.1yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Made headway on some of my backlog, today. Three more gallons bottled. Only 10-ish more to go!5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
I really am just stupidly proud of this one. It was a year old in November, and it is just gorgeous champagne gold and crystal clear. Hairy Vetch traditional. 11.5% ABV.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Happy Friday the 13th, lovely humans. Today's bottling project: 3 gallons of Salem's Tarts.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Happy Halloween, lovelies. I figured my mead people would appreciate the headdress. Gonna bottle some magic, later.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Sucreabeille's Black Hearts collection dropped today! I tried them. I have thoughts!4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/Indiemakeupandmore
Heidrun's Lehua Blossom Sparkling Traditional: it's really, really good y'all.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Impulse Cosmetics RAVE. Riot liquid lip. This is all day. I haven't even had to do a touch up!4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/Indiemakeupandmore
Tonight's quarantine project to unwind from working at home because working from home is weird: The Flying Dutchman. This is my salted grapefruit melomel. 10% ABV. A mead homage to a gose. Gonna let it age a while longer, but this is great.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Bottled the s'mores bochet today. Nothing has labels because I didn't expect to be bottling today, but the cinnamon was getting too bossy.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Today, I bottled something beautiful. Lapsang Souchong mead is done. (More pictures in the comments.)5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Got to bottle my first attempt to re-create a recipe; liked my first version of this one so much, I desperately wanted to make it again- in a larger quantity- and it actually turned out even better. I hate the new sealing wax and won't be using it again, but the mead is wonderful.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Today was bottling day! Spilled about a bottle's worth of mead on myself and the floor in the process, but that's probably just going to become a tradition, at this point. Considering it an offering to the Booze Gods. They were good to me.6yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Good morning, you gorgeous humans. Started my day by bottling a couple of beautiful things. Left: star thistle traditional. Right: blueberry honey traditional, aged on American oak.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Finally got the last of my smoked fruit series of meads bottled up, and they look so pretty together.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
First bottling day in the new place; three gallons of black currant and elderflower. Still going to do some bottle aging with it, but I needed that carboy because I have so many projects in the works!4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Happy equinox, you lovely humans. From me and my (incredibly young, but still delicious) meadowfoam.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
The very last of my genmaicha mead. It was a flawed execution, but at least it's pretty.4yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
This year's projects (mostly); bottled and aging. And I feel pretty good about what I've accomplished since April.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Took a break from studying for midterms to bottle the buckwheat mead I've had in secondary for a while, now. It definitely needs to age, but it turned out so beautiful, I had to take a picture. Buckwheat, cinnamon, and dates.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Welp. Finally decided to just commit, since this is an interest that doesn't seem to be waning. Now I've got 5 gallons of local clover honey, from my beekeeper hookup at the farmer's market.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Bottled three and a half gallons, today. Hairy Vetch, Meadowfoam, and a Pomegranate and Cherry Cyser. A few thoughts in the comments.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
The snowpocalypse skipped us, but it's still cold as fuck out... So, (not quite) snow day genmaicha mead and lapsang souchong mead for comfort.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Today's bottling/labeling projects, left to right: genmaicha mead, s'mores bochet (just labeled today), and apricot cardamom (still in need of a name, so no label).5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Starting on a new batch. Hear a lot of advice against a pure buckwheat mead, but I love buckwheat honey so I'm doing it anyway.6yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Thanks to a very generous gift from a friend, my mead now has friends of its own.6yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
It tastes like jet fuel, but it sure is pretty. (Also love the contrast between this one- a peach melomel- and the buckwheat and date I bottled last week.)5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Started a peach melomel, today. First time trying anything with fruit. Recipe I'm using will be in the comments; wouldn't mind some thoughts on it.6yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Adventures in fermentation: these two meads had the exact same original gravity: 1.120. The one on the left is my metheglin, and it was started on May 12th. The one on the right is the peach mead that I started a fucking week ago. This is insane.6yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
Been saving this honey specifically for a New Year's Day start. Super excited to get to compare it to the hairy vetch traditional I started a couple months back.5yr ⋅ FaerieAlchemy ⋅ r/mead
