Got the Mead Started

[foamheart]

You'll be making sparkling muscadine wine soon to celebrate next new years! I bet all the kids will want to stay home with Mom & Dad and celebrate then.

Friends and neighbors will be wanting to swap their "apple pie" for a bottle of yours.

Speaking of that, I have the clearest most beautiful jar of pear wine ya ever saw (its old, almost 6 months! LOL). The colors of these things amaze me, and the clarity.

Gonna have to start throwing out the old canned tomatoes for room here soon. I was trying to keep 'em drank down......  Not the tomatoes silly!

 

[kathrynn]

Lynn was talking about possibly making a Muscadine Beer the other day!  Funny You should mention that!

Kat

 

[foamheart]

I was going to try some sparkling muscadine this year but the heat and the birds beat me out. Moved to next years list. More time for smoking.

 

[kathrynn]

Here is day 5 on the Mead!  Color is gorgeous!

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• kathrynn
• Oct 18, 2013

The honey layer is gone from the bottom of the glass jug.  There seems to be "debris" from the fruits and yeast.  I know that happens with beers.  So....crossing fingers this is on the right track.  I am loving watching all the bubbles and the process here.

Kat

 

[daveomak]

Dark ages brew......  You are becoming a "time traveler".....   I like it.....    

Dave

 

[kathrynn]

 
Dark ages brew......  You are becoming a "time traveler".....   I like it.....    

Dave

Will need "taste testers" soon....I will do really large smoked turkey and mutton legs...and we can all use bad manners and sit around the table and enjoy!  

Kat

 

[daveomak]

Knives only..... no forks allowed.....  

 

[kathrynn]

 
Knives only..... no forks allowed.....  

and you men will have to grow out the beards too!

I think I have some pewter stuff around here somewhere.

Kat

 

[old bones]

Oh Boy!! I clicked on this link just in time. I started out smoking meat and making sausage, and then I planted garlic, I’ve always made up pickles and tomatoes but this year things got a bit out of hand. The wife was saying that my basement looks like it belongs to one of those preppers on tv. I was just telling her that I’m just about done canning for the year. The garden is done, the mushrooms are all but gone for the year and I’m down to my last pail of apples. We were thinking about doing up some cheese next so this would be right up my alley.

Kate, I should know better than to click on any link of yours or Dave’s but the devil makes me do it… Years ago, I used a balloon on top of those big type water jugs but now that I don’t have anything to ferment in my jars, I see a use for my fermenting caps… We were thinking about making cheese next but I hate to see those caps collecting dust…

That really looks nice and another use for some of my carrots. ;-)

Going to be some sipping sauce for sure. Thanks for posting..

 

[kathrynn]

Oh Boy!! I clicked on this link just in time. I started out smoking meat and making sausage, and then I planted garlic, I’ve always made up pickles and tomatoes but this year things got a bit out of hand. The wife was saying that my basement looks like it belongs to one of those preppers on tv. I was just telling her that I’m just about done canning for the year. The garden is done, the mushrooms are all but gone for the year and I’m down to my last pail of apples. We were thinking about doing up some cheese next so this would be right up my alley.

Kate, I should know better than to click on any link of yours or Dave’s but the devil makes me do it… Years ago, I used a balloon on top of those big type water jugs but now that I don’t have anything to ferment in my jars, I see a use for my fermenting caps… We were thinking about making cheese next but I hate to see those caps collecting dust…

That really looks nice and another use for some of my carrots. ;-)

Going to be some sipping sauce for sure. Thanks for posting..

You are funny....but there is no telling what I will do next either.  I am even researching Grog recipes!

Kat

 

[disco]

 
Will need "taste testers" soon....I will do really large smoked turkey and mutton legs...and we can all use bad manners and sit around the table and enjoy!  

Kat

That sounds like my family reunions.

 

[leah elisheva]

How exciting Kat! (Forgive me for chiming in so late on posts, as I am still sort of finding my way around, and it is fun)!

In any event, that is so wonderful! Here's to your Mead!!!! Cheers and happy Friday! - Leah

 

[kathrynn]

How exciting Kat! (Forgive me for chiming in so late on posts, as I am still sort of finding my way around, and it is fun)!

In any event, that is so wonderful! Here's to your Mead!!!! Cheers and happy Friday! - Leah

Leah.....chime away! The more the merrier!

Kat

 

[GaryHibbert]

Kat

sometimes you just have to---sad as it seems

Gary

 

[GaryHibbert]

I totally agree Disco.  Change the water, and keep it topped up

Gary

 

[pearlheartgtr]

It's been years since I've made Mead. I used to be a Medivalist and always had a few gallons going at a time. This recipe you're using is normally called "Ancient Orange". I made it once with bread yeast. When all was said and done and bottled, it tasted like rocket fuel. I tucked the bottles away and forgot about them for a couple of years and then came across them when I was cleaning one day. And it was good! This is one that needs to sit for a while. So just bottle and forget about it for a couple of years.

Also, something to think about is the type of honey to use. From my experience, Wildflower honey tends to add strange tastes to new Mead and the final product has to age for at least a year before being drinkable (made that mistake with my first two batches). I ended up using Clover honey exclusively because more often than not, I had a drinkable product in a month. And with the group I was in, I had to churn this stuff out on a monthly basis. I would literally bottle and bring straight to an event. Keep one bottle at home and one for myself that night and the rest would be gone in no time.

I gotta start making Mead again.

 

[mike johnson]

So hows it going?

 

[bama bbq]

So hows it going?

She's no longer here Mike. Part of the Fall '13 exodus.


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[bdawg]

She's no longer here Mike. Part of the Fall '13 exodus.


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Huh?  Did I miss something?  What happened?

 

[GaryHibbert]

Hey Bama

I'm kinda like BDawg.  When you say she's gone, do you mean gone for hunting season, or left us permanently?  And what's this fall '13 exodus?  Cause if she's gone-gone, I'm going to miss her

Gary