Several months ago my daughter and I were bottling a traditional mead and decided to try to bottle condition a few bottles. We hadn't done it before, and I was just sure that it wasn't gonna work, but on Thanksgiving we cracked open one of the bottles and WOW! Not only was it carbonated like any other sparkling wine, it tasted great too! Sooo much better than wine, and much like the sparkling mead from Heidrun that we drank last Christmas.
SO stoked, both on the carbonation (I know, I know, it has to work if you do your sums right, but I didn't trust myself) AND the great taste of the mead in general. The only problem was that my sister forgot that it had the spent yeast at the bottom and stirred it up so it was a bit cloudy, but we figured, hey, it works for beer, right?
We have three bottles left. We're set for New Year. ;D
SO stoked, both on the carbonation (I know, I know, it has to work if you do your sums right, but I didn't trust myself) AND the great taste of the mead in general. The only problem was that my sister forgot that it had the spent yeast at the bottom and stirred it up so it was a bit cloudy, but we figured, hey, it works for beer, right?
We have three bottles left. We're set for New Year. ;D