Homebrew Mead Wine

[Joe_K]

Mead is awesome! My cousin in Washington home brews that stuff. It was like 18% alcohol. Ridiculously good.

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[Tim K]

Hmm, my fermenter is going to be free in about 10 days. Looks like a fun change of pace from wine.

[sniper7]

Looks like I need to show this to my mom as she is always making wine and giving us batches but some mead sounds awesome! Great work, that stuff looks great!

[Brian]

Bottled another batch over the weekend - a great clear red color on this one. Also labeled a couple batches with some custom-made labels. This one isn't as sweet as the last (on purpose), and it tastes pretty good already - even though it's only about 5mo old. Wish I had made more than 3gal on this batch. Guess I'd better start another batch. 13% on this one but I have a few that are higher.

[jdranchman]

Nice work. I've got two carboys of mead sitting and about ready to rack again for bottling. Are you on gotmead? A few of us in the front range gm are going to try and setup a sit and sip to sample each others experiments and talk about yeast pee.

[Brian]

Nice work. I've got two carboys of mead sitting and about ready to rack again for bottling. Are you on gotmead? A few of us in the front range gm are going to try and setup a sit and sip to sample each others experiments and talk about yeast pee.

Yep, but I've been pretty much lurking only, and a couple of the other forums too. I saw a post the other day about a get together, just hadn't responded yet, but I will. sounds awesome. I've got a few I need to rack too - I need to reinforce the shelving I'm using, as it's bowing pretty bad from all the weight and I didn't want to stir up any lees moving stuff around if I could rack first instead. There's a strawberry down there that I swear clouds up if I breathe funny.

[Hummer]

That looks fantastic, Brian, great label, too.

My young cousin visited today and toured the orchard and garage winery. He's now working at a north Boulder winery that will be showing off their mead at the Colorado Mountain Winefest in Palisade next month. Will have to try it. Usually there are some great meads and fruit wines at the winefest which draws about 8000 visitors to the Grand Valley.

Right now I'm sipping on a 2009 apple wine. Still pretty good.

I have fun making custom labels for our homemade wines, too.

[Rhino0427]

I've been wanting to do this! The guys at Old West in the Springs are big proponents. They said you need to put your carbouy away and let it ferment for a year or more to get it right. Is that what you're doing?

[jdranchman]

There are methods to make a drinkable mead in a couple months. However, even with those they still get better with age. Two quick methods/recipes you can do at home are named JAOM and BOMM. The JAOM (Joe's Ancient Orange Mead) is a mix it and forget recipe and is ready in a couple of months (don't move it or stir it or nothing till its done). The BOMM (Bray's One Month Mead) is more a recipe and protocol that includes staggered nutrient additions (SNA) to help feed yeasties optimally during their short life. BOMM gives you a tasty drinkable mead in about 30 days. If you are interested, I recommend you surf to gotmead.com and read some of the forum articles - lots of good stuff. I wish I read some of that before I made my first batch last year. I did it the old school way and it might be drinkable in a year or two or three...

[Brian]

That looks fantastic, Brian, great label, too.

My young cousin visited today and toured the orchard and garage winery. He's now working at a north Boulder winery that will be showing off their mead at the Colorado Mountain Winefest in Palisade next month. Will have to try it. Usually there are some great meads and fruit wines at the winefest which draws about 8000 visitors to the Grand Valley.

Right now I'm sipping on a 2009 apple wine. Still pretty good.

I have fun making custom labels for our homemade wines, too.

Wow, looks great. Hopefully I'll make it out there to see in person this Spring. I do like how you've tied your hummingbirds into all the labels too - at some point if I get semi-serious I will probably need to be thinking about how to provide some consistency or at least some sort of link between all the various labels.

I'd also be interested in your apple wine recipe. I have a carboy full of Ed Wort's dry German apfelwein stashed in a dark corner somewhere. My wife tends to like ciders and apple-based wines, so I try to keep her happy, but I'm thinking a dry cider may be more to my liking than hers... we'll see. It helps when she gets frustrated with all the "stuff" involved in my hobbies that's scattered all over the house if I can tempt her with something she likes.