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Yo momma

Yo momma

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I am surprised at what I just found. A store in the Flint Mi. area is sell 4 different meads. I bought three of them and are currently drinking a Black Current mead by KURPIOWSKI. Wow I am surprised at this flavor, and with no sulfites! If anyone is intersted the stores name is Oliver T's in the Grand Blanc area. This stuff is sweet with a good honey afternote. Itis also aged 5 years before sale. If anyone has tried this let me know.

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Real Happy (lol) :laughing7:
 
Sure, I've had it! Kurpiowski is actually one of the more popular Polish dwójniak meads (made from one part honey to one part water) and it is fermented to an average ABV of 16%. They add a little black currant juice to the finished mead to act as a flavor and a counterpoint to the sweetness. The Stawski family imports this one, along with several other Apis meadery meads (including the renowned poltorak Jadwiga), and it is yummy!

The better Polish meads are all typically aperitifs, or dessert drinks, as the residual sugar is high. Poltoraks are made from 1.5 parts honey to 1 part water, and since the ABV finishes about the same as a dwójniak, they are correspondingly sweeter.
 
:o They're selling Kurpowski meads in MI now? Maaaan.... ::insert whiny tone here:: I had to get a couple of bottles actually shipped to me from a buddy living in Poland. Pretty good stuff, but extremely sweet.

That's it... I'm starting another dwojniak as soon as I can finagle the new carboy out of my accounting department. I'm also going to track down some black currant juice for the next one if it kills me. My current batch won't be ready for drinking until about 2012 or so if I age it for the requisite 5 yrs before drinking it. (Which I totally plan on doing)

I'm jealous Yo. ...and now for my payback... "How's the weather up there? It's sunny and 80 down here in the AZ." :wave:

::Remembering a long cold snowy commute from Canton to Flint back in '98::
 
Well Sand the weather here is a balmy 38F right now but it's going to be 44 today with a little peek at the sun WWOOOOHOOOO, turd man. ;D

Anyway I have 2 more bottles of mead by a company called Honeywood. It's ok but my wife says my stuff is alot better. (she better say that ;D ) It tastes highly commercial and definetly does not cost as much as Kurpoiski's. I payed 17.99 abottle for the polish stuff and only 12 for the Honeywood. The Honeywood is a traditional with a ok honey note. I also have a bottle of Plum wine from Honeywood which my wife loves. Probably a batch of that this year also.

The Kurpoiski is veeerrryyy sweet and has a heck of a kick at the end. THe flavor though is wonderful with the current up front and a strong honey end with a creamy mouth. Hope your mouth is watering now (this is where I stick my tougue out to Sand and make a PPSSTTT! sound). I can't wait for another glass of this tonight.

I would definetly take some warmer weather over this bottle if you wanted to trade.

PS Wayne I am definetly intersted on where I can get some fresh Currant. Let me know when and how much. :icon_thumleft:
 
Warm weather not a problem, last night was chilly here in Cali... it dropped to at *least* 68...

--L
 
Hmm... currant, aronia, & blueberry juice mixed with fresh/frozen blueberries, blackberries, and a few other items to be named later... I feel a new recipe coming on... Thanks Oskaar. ;D

::marking the calendar for my next TJ's run:: There's a TJ's located on the way to my LHBS so I can snag a new carboy on the same trip.

Yo: I've still got half a bottle of Kurpowski's in my mead locker so back at ya brudda. Nernie nernie nerrrnieee... :P You're right on about the cost though. :laughing7:
My wife likes my recipes better than the commercial stuff too. I use that to gain more space in the pantr.. err... my mead locker. (Can't say I miss MI winters much, but I do miss the great springs days at the local orchards.)

Wayne: I may take you up on that offer for some currants. Let me see how things develop on that potential new job thing we were talking about first. :icon_salut:
 
wayneb said:
Yo,

Will do, as soon as I find out what their prices are going to be this coming year. As with anything agricultural, the early season weather is everything. We should know more in late June or early July.
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As wet as it's been this year, I'm hoping that we will have as good of a currant crop as we did 3 years ago. I picked over 20lbs in one day from a patch I know in the hills just 11 miles from home. 13 of those went into jelly but the other 7lbs went into mead. I want to use at least twice as much next time. Maybe three times? Your Noir recipe looks awesome!

BTW, I'm still working on getting those chokecherries. Toby's been hard to get a hold of...
 
wayneb said:
Yeah, you guys with the TJ's have all the luck!

Of course I have a contact back east who'd be willing to sell bulk quantities of black currants, if you'd be interested in this summer's harvest, at very good prices! ;)
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Back east? I'd have an interest in currants as well. I planted two plants (one red one black) last spring but certainly won't get berries for a while.
 
wildaho said:
As wet as it's been this year, I'm hoping that we will have as good of a currant crop as we did 3 years ago. I picked over 20lbs in one day from a patch I know in the hills just 11 miles from home. 13 of those went into jelly but the other 7lbs went into mead. I want to use at least twice as much next time. Maybe three times? Your Noir recipe looks awesome!

BTW, I'm still working on getting those chokecherries. Toby's been hard to get a hold of...
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Hey, Wade! Are those currants near you black currants? If so, I might make a pilgrimage up your way just to help you pick! That would be even less expensive than getting a price break from a commercial grower, and I wouldn't mind the drive! ;D

I'm already planning to head to the Western Slope in Colorado this summer to get fresh ripe peaches directly from the grower. We're nearly devoid of fresh fruits around these parts -- whatever seems to be able to grow in this semi-arid semi-alpine region, the deer or elk tend to devour, just about a week before they're fully ripe. :angry2:
 
Yo momma said:
I am surprised at what I just found. A store in the Flint Mi. area is sell 4 different meads. I bought three of them and are currently drinking a Black Current mead by KURPIOWSKI. Wow I am surprised at this flavor, and with no sulfites! If anyone is intersted the stores name is Oliver T's in the Grand Blanc area. This stuff is sweet with a good honey afternote. Itis also aged 5 years before sale. If anyone has tried this let me know.
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Ahhh!!! I used to go there *all the time*!!! When I lived in Flint and Grand Blanc back in the late 80's, we'd go there for beer. My last trip there, several years ago while passing through Flint to visit my mother in law, we stopped there and I dropped a couple hundred bucks I won at the casino up in Manistee. Now I hit this eclectic little wine shop in Manistee called Happy Chappy's.......I find *great* stuff there, they have lots of obscure wines, liqueurs and beers and a couple different meads.

Very cool to hear Oliver T's is still as varied and wonderful as I remember it.....

Kurpiowski is one of the Polish meads that is distributed by Stawski Imports. If you like that one, check out their website at http://www.stawskiimports.com.
 
Yeah, they are *the* place for Polish meads. Check out http://www.liquidsolutions.biz, they might have a few....otherwise, if the Stawskis can't sell to you, ask them where they distribute in your state and you can call the distributor to see where the retailers are.....roundabout, but it does work.
 
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