goblet, tankard or horn
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Mine doesn't look like much, simple leather cuff with thong for tying to a belt, it's just a lot bigger than I've seen on any living cow I've ever encountered... this's more the size of the pair on Boss Hogg's cadillac... and although I generally drink out of wine glasses, I don't yet have any safe place to keep them in the basement where all the mead is, so I've been pulling a Gibbs (NCIS) and drinking out of a mason jar...
I drink mead from wine glasses. I just never enjoyed drinking from a horn or a mazer unless I was too buzzed to care about the aromatics and such. No slam on horns, mazers, mugs or any other drinking vessel. I just like wineglasses better.
My stems with what I generally drink out of them.
Cheers,
Oskaar
My stems with what I generally drink out of them.
Cheers,
Oskaar
interesting collection, Oskaar.
Home goods is your friend.... Just picked up twelve Marquis by Waterford Vintage collection Cab glasses for 40$.
Now where to store them...
I have a bit of a collection of wine glasses. I like crystal glasses for drinking wine and mead. Being a bit of a klutz I break them on a fairly regular basis so my collection has a constantly changing makeup. (plus I can't seem to stop buying them.)
Cheers, Brian
Home goods is your friend.... Just picked up twelve Marquis by Waterford Vintage collection Cab glasses for 40$.
Now where to store them...
I have a bit of a collection of wine glasses. I like crystal glasses for drinking wine and mead. Being a bit of a klutz I break them on a fairly regular basis so my collection has a constantly changing makeup. (plus I can't seem to stop buying them.)
Cheers, Brian
That's my problem, too--where to put things. My kitchen is overstuffed as it is.
Nice selection of glassware, though, Pete. Makes me embarrassed about mine.
Nice selection of glassware, though, Pete. Makes me embarrassed about mine.
I'm a packrat by nature so I eventually had to start a kitchen purchases rule - prior to a new purchase, I must consider the following: if it doesn't already have a home, I must remove something to make room for it. of course, this has led to a box of seldom-used large kitchen items like the giant roasting pan and the 2 extra stock pots being stored in the basement where the wine's supposed to go...
Mmm, I love my crystal stemware, and thankfully it's rather on the heavy side or I'd never use it for fear of breaking it... too many options!
Just finished this up today. Thanks to gunlilly and brimminghorn for inspiration on this.
Engraved with dremel 105 and 106 engraving bits. Inked with a paint pen (which bled a little). Sealed with local beeswax and then polished with a terry cloth and lots of elbow work
Engraved with dremel 105 and 106 engraving bits. Inked with a paint pen (which bled a little). Sealed with local beeswax and then polished with a terry cloth and lots of elbow work
Certainly, use the exact same ingredients with less sugar and a yeast with a lower ABV. There was a thread not too long ago "Lowest ABV you've fermented and been happy with" and I know there were some comments about meads at 7-8%. I'd use a beer yeast and measure my sugars correctly to make a hydromel.
And as for calicojack, very nice horn work. I'll eventually work on carving my big one, the only one I've ever worked on was too thin for a rotary tool, so I actually used a wood burning iron. Gave it a cool brown color, but smelled like burnt hair.
My boy does really nice cane work though, so I may make him do it.
And as for calicojack, very nice horn work. I'll eventually work on carving my big one, the only one I've ever worked on was too thin for a rotary tool, so I actually used a wood burning iron. Gave it a cool brown color, but smelled like burnt hair.
My boy does really nice cane work though, so I may make him do it.
i highly encourage you to do your own horn. for me it is part of my journey to find my heritage and path in asatru, so there is a lot of personal satisfaction in this accomplishment.
i can set you up with a good vendor that takes "offers" on their horns. This one was 4 inches wide at the mouth and 17 inches long. I paid $15 shipped for it.
i can set you up with a good vendor that takes "offers" on their horns. This one was 4 inches wide at the mouth and 17 inches long. I paid $15 shipped for it.
I get my horns raw from a local leather shop and make them myself. Up till this point, it's been a learning experience with finding one that 'fit my hand' and polishing and curing. It also left me with some nice hand made gifts for various friends I've made. 
I just tend to have issues with rotary tools, I can almost never get a straight line, at least on wood. And I am rather in love with my latest horn (it holds almost a full 22 oz bottle), and I already made a horn frog for it...so I don't want to mar it and not want to use it anymore.
I just tend to have issues with rotary tools, I can almost never get a straight line, at least on wood. And I am rather in love with my latest horn (it holds almost a full 22 oz bottle), and I already made a horn frog for it...so I don't want to mar it and not want to use it anymore.
Whatever is near by. Usually a wine glass at home inside. A horn or large mug outside. I do most of my larger volume drinking outdoors!
I've been using a Cars® child's cup for tasting while I am brewing or making wine or mead.
But for drinking it's generally a wine glass but I've drank out of many vessels. Solo cups, horns, goblet, tankards,straight from a bottle you name it I've probably drank mead out of it. It barely counts as mead what we were drinking but with a name like 'Camelot Mead', we thought we were cool. Wine glasses never seemed to make it to the camping exhibitions.
But for drinking it's generally a wine glass but I've drank out of many vessels. Solo cups, horns, goblet, tankards,straight from a bottle you name it I've probably drank mead out of it. It barely counts as mead what we were drinking but with a name like 'Camelot Mead', we thought we were cool. Wine glasses never seemed to make it to the camping exhibitions.
Just ordered a new horn as an Ostara gift for my guy. All rough and nasty, can't wait till it gets here and I can start polishing! Then I get to cure it, which is kind of a waste of lager, but I use cheap stuff, lol. I'll post pics in 3-4 months, yknow, when it's done. ;D
