Great answers friends. I now continue down the newbee learning curve with a few more insights. This guy is doing multiple one-gallon batches and learning as I succeed and fail, and I've had both already. SG 0.990 is REALLY dry. Learning backsweetening now.
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I have the JAOM going, and two blueberry combination meads moving along, as well as 4 ciders (1 black currant, 3 apples), and the 5 gallon batch of orange mead. Thats the one I'm getting ready to rack into the glass carboy. We just bottled a cider this morning thats tastes awesome and so simple to make. I am learning, quite a bit actually, hopefully out of all this, I'll have something drinkable!
One thing I sort of get concerned about, as much as I have read about mead, it is for all intent, a wine. Now, the best of wines have age on them, and that is how I'm looking at my meads. I don't expect to drink them within 3 months or 6 months, I want some age on them. I don't particularly care for these one month wonders, I think it does a disservice to those who work hard at producing a good product. I've often heard the commercial meaderies don't put out as good a product as home brewers. Of course, I raised my own beef at one time, and to this day, hate the crap that they sell in the store. And as far as beef goes, how about that pound and a half chicken breast? Have you ever seen a 20 pound chicken? So anyway, I can my own stuff, make my own jams and jellies, in fact, can't wait to make a jelly out of this mead (I do Chardonnay Rosemary jelly as well as Cabernet Sauvignon jelly), and all of it is made with care, goodness and grace. Thats how I treat my meads too, I expect good things to come of them!
So I ask a lot of questions and hijack other peoples posts...LOL
One thing I sort of get concerned about, as much as I have read about mead, it is for all intent, a wine. Now, the best of wines have age on them, and that is how I'm looking at my meads. I don't expect to drink them within 3 months or 6 months, I want some age on them. I don't particularly care for these one month wonders, I think it does a disservice to those who work hard at producing a good product. I've often heard the commercial meaderies don't put out as good a product as home brewers. Of course, I raised my own beef at one time, and to this day, hate the crap that they sell in the store. And as far as beef goes, how about that pound and a half chicken breast? Have you ever seen a 20 pound chicken? So anyway, I can my own stuff, make my own jams and jellies, in fact, can't wait to make a jelly out of this mead (I do Chardonnay Rosemary jelly as well as Cabernet Sauvignon jelly), and all of it is made with care, goodness and grace. Thats how I treat my meads too, I expect good things to come of them!
So I ask a lot of questions and hijack other peoples posts...LOL
