submitted 1 year ago by greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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How many of you make mead? I made my last small batch for Thanksgiving and I've just gotten caught up with life and other hobbies and forgot it existed until I saw this community.

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[-] AwkwardTurtle@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been making mead pretty consistently for 4-5 years now. Super fun.

I've got a (planned) quick turnaround strawberry mead currently fermenting that I plan to filter, back sweeten, and add some lemon flavor in to have a strawberry lemonade mead on tap for the summer.

Otherwise I've got probably around 25 gallons aging in the basement, including some weird stuff like tomato mead, lambic mead, and sea water mead.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds amazing, can't wait to hear how it turns out!

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 5 points 1 year ago

I do. I was a semi regular poster in r/mead.

I think I have about 70L in secondary ageing at the moment, but nothing in primary atm

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Very nice! I haven't made anything in so long. Got caught up building a racecar haha

[-] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

A mead community!

Can we get the Lemmy version of r/prisonhooch now ;P

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know that we need a c/prisonhooch, some of those guys were nuts

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

If it doesn't exist, make it!

[-] bees_knees@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Feel free to make whatever you'd like, but I see no reason mead posts can't go in homebrewing. I don't make mead, but still would find the posts interesting.

[-] denials@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Mead was my gateway drug into home brewing. About two months ago I paid $15 for a learn to make mead class a friend held, and came back with a one gallon carboy of must (4 lbs of honey) into which I tossed some homegrown haskaps and then pitched my yeast.

Before I even racked that off into secondary, I had a 3 gallon carboy holding a melomel made with local wild blueberries. It's taking a slower fermentation path, but when I tasted it at 1.055 SG it was all good.

Since then I've made ginger beer (just bottled) and 3 gallons of cider that's ready to be racked off, as well as several batches of kombucha.

For those of you who have trouble writing things down, if you have an Android iPhone I recommend trying out the Mead Mate app. Free, no ads, just focused on helping you track all the important data and data points. Helps my scattered mind!

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Mead mate exists in Android too!

[-] denials@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Hah, damned autocorrect--I did not mean to write "iPhone"!

[-] Rangelus@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

I've made 3 batches of mead so far. A sweet, a semi-sweet and a dry. My favourite by far was the semi-sweet, and it only took about a month to finish clear and be drinkable!

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds lovely. I'm great at not writing down what I did so my really fantastic one I haven't been able to recreate.

[-] Rangelus@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

Rule no. 1 of brewing, record keeping! 😂

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣 what are these rules? I need no rules! (I should probably follow the rules)

[-] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Slightly hijacking this to say that if anybody feels like writing a post about mead making along the lines of the beer one, it would help populate that sidebar there yonder.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Hijack away! I'm basically still new at it, I don't keep records cause I'm crazy like that do I'm not gonna volunteer but it's a great idea to ask!

[-] Islenna@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I picked up mead making as my pandemic hobby. Started with one gallon and ballooned from there.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

That's how I started lol

[-] Islenna@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Right? The first one in the jar, and the blurb blurb of the bubbles just spoke to me. Then it was like well this’ll take awhile, I should just start another!

I normally have a batch or two ready to rack about now, but life has had other plans this year.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

I have a limited amount of bottles specifically so I can't just keep making more lmao. I know who I am as a person.

[-] RecaffeinatedDecaf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Been a while since I last made mead. I need to find me a good source for some honey and fix this. Best I ever managed to make was a blackberry mead, a good while back. Used a whole lot of foraged berries, real flavory and unexpectedly sweet. After the yeast finished fermenting it was still full of sugary goodness so I added champagne yeast and fermented some more. Don't recall the abv I managed to get on it, and being the neanderthal that I am I didn't write it down.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

I'm terrible at not writing things down. I'd love to know what I put in the one that turned out amazing.

[-] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 3 points 1 year ago

I bought a bunch of local honey and made some mead, and it was one of the nicest things I've ever brewed. Quite alcoholic, and tasted like flowers.

[-] alcoholic_chipmunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just started mead brewing about 6ish months ago it seemed easier than brewing beer and wine just didn't have the same appeal. Plus I just really needed a non-tech hobby. 😅

So far LOVING it! My brews have been fermenting super quick (usually about a week but sometimes 2) and have been more than drinkable after a month. :)