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What mead are you going to make next and why?

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My next ups are one that I'm going to call Under African Skies...I'll post the specs up shortly but it's going to be Zambezi Honey, Rooibus tea, Madagascar Vanilla, and I'd like to do some kind of red African berry but I haven't found the right one yet. I like foresty, earthly meads. Reflects me personality. The next is going to be a lavender rhodomel I'd like to have finish like a champagne. I have some experience with rhodo's and am anxious to try lavendar (I love the dandelion idea Syme...I've made dandelion wine but never dandelion mead. The wine is good...I'm sure the mead will be great!) And I'd really like to get a chocolate something started. Never done that before. Sounds awesome. Plus I KNOW it'll make the ladies swoon. :cool: yupyup!
 
I'm thinking about a chocolate/mint/vanilla sort of thing, resembling a creme de menthe. Knowing my luck though, it will probably turn out more "creme de merd". :D Why? JAO was simple, but I want to challenge myself, try my hand at thinking up my own recipe, do plenty of research, and actually go through "the process" of mead making. Plenty to learn before I start that project, though. Back to research.........
 
My Own Chocolate Acerglyn... running out, way past time to make more.

A light, standard Acerglyn.

Another Spiced Cyser ~ with cloves & Cinnamon

Probably a straight Cyser while I'm at it.

Cheers,
Wrathwilde
 
Wrath,

What batch size chocolate are you going to make? If it is a large one, any chance of putting in an order for a few bottles? Love that one.

Angus
 
Angus said:
Any chance of putting in an order for a few bottles? Love that one.
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I think that can be arranged, I'll be using a different honey this time around, Snowberry, so it may be a little lighter in character. Hope you have patience... these batches probably wont be bottled until 2011.

Cheers,
Wrathwilde
 
Patience. The one virtue I do have. Of course, if someone could invent a time machine and get the mead finished quicker, I would not hold it against them.

Angus
 
Aging: 1gal JAO; 5gal Imperial India Pale Ale (Hops!)
Definitely planned: 2x1gal JAO; 1gal cranberry cyser; 5gal C-3PAle (IPA); 5gal Brewbacca (Barleywine); 5gal GF Beer of some sort.

Possible: 5gal cranberry cyser; another 5gal Oatmeal Stout (we need to burn through our supplies of it first)
 
A 3 gallon batch of Oskaarz “Oaked Sweet Mead” (since I have some oak cubes on hand), and a 3 gallon batch of Oskaarz “You Bleu My Berriez Melomel” (since I have the berries in the freezer) I just need to pick up the RC212…these will be my first batches over 1 gallon...I guess I'm ready to take the plunge!
 
Thomasaaron:

your just going to have to take a little risk on this one and figure out your tastes.

Make a sweet traditional mead and once it clears add a jalapeno to 1 gallon and sample it every day until you have an idea of what it's about. It's not actually too daunting, dont let it scare ya off ;)
I've heard tha tusing dried or smoked peppers is another flavor all together.

It's been on my list for quite some time now, I still haven't gotten around to one myself, but this is pretty much the conclusion I've come to.

Good Luck!

PS: next on my list is my blueberry mead from last year. It was so good I've had 3 cases commissioned from me and I want to get the jump on it so I can get them out to people in the fall.

Probably jump on my Gewurztraminer pyment as well to take full advantage of the cold temps.
 
Thanks, Wolfie.

I hadn't thought about adding jalapeño in the secondary, little by little. That's not a bad idea at all.

I was going to throw it in the primary. But I like the idea of going a little at a time.

Anybody else have thoughts on that?
 
I've basically got a laundry list of things I want to start before I go back to school, because then I will be too busy to think about them for a few months. First I need to deal with my cranberry pomegranate cider by sweetening half and carbonating the other half.

Then I want to make 3 drinks. I want to make another 5gal of citrus cider, as well as 5gal of a blueberry mead with some very slight anise flavoring in the background. And I want to make a small 1gal experimental batch of butterbeer, which I will tinker with until I get it right! Hopefully it will be ready in time for the final Harry Potter movie...
 
Blackberry mead (an attempt at the wine). Why? Because the wild blackberries are ripe, free fruit, I average picking 2-3 GALLONS every time I go out!
 
DaleP said:
Blackberry mead (an attempt at the wine). Why? Because the wild blackberries are ripe, free fruit, I average picking 2-3 GALLONS every time I go out!
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Same here brother except it's hard to find as much as you do! Hahah I came home last Saturday with 40 million cuts up my arms, no pain no gain though! I'm sure blood sweat and tears will be noticeable on the palette when its finished.
 
Sasper said:
Same here brother except it's hard to find as much as you do! Hahah I came home last Saturday with 40 million cuts up my arms, no pain no gain though! I'm sure blood sweat and tears will be noticeable on the palette when its finished.
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Only 40 million? Need to get into the bushes more! Just kidding, its a bumper crop here this year, and having a cool July has helped extend the season. Sipping on this nectar in mid January will remind of the summer days of picking berries......
The black raspberry mead is bubbling away, best year ever on these jewels, and the base mead for the gooseberry mead is a going!
 
DaleP said:
Only 40 million? Need to get into the bushes more! Just kidding, its a bumper crop here this year, and having a cool July has helped extend the season. Sipping on this nectar in mid January will remind of the summer days of picking berries......
The black raspberry mead is bubbling away, best year ever on these jewels, and the base mead for the gooseberry mead is a going!
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Oh boy I wanted to make a black raspberry mead so bad! I couldn't find a decent sized cache anywhere though! I love gooseberry's and have thought about making one but haven't seen gooseberry's in so long. How do they taste?

And for the bushes, haha I was ape like climbing around in the middle of those bushes haha.
 
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