Ah, brewing... My experience here is much less than that of, say, meadmaker, but a run-down:
Liquid Sunshine (a plain mead - but made with only Orange Blossom Honey)
Blueberry Melomel (yummy - though next time I try it with blueberry honey, too).
Joshua's Blend (rasperry & coffee - so it's a cross between a melomel and a metheglin)
Cyser (apple metheglin) - this turned out a little weaker than I had hoped, but it's still yummy.
Since I have some ties to Mab, not as a matron or anything, but the ties are there, I would like to do a batch of Mab's Ride. Though, it probably wouldn't be ready before the next ride - so it's going to be a bit.
I would also like to get some other special brews going. Smaller ones, to be sure, but devoted to specific deities. Like a rhodomel (rose mead) for Aphrodite. Even better if I can collect the rose petals from somewhere near the ocean. Or perhaps something with the pine barren honey that I hope to find in New Jersey next week - between that and juniper, I should be able to put together a nice piney metheglin.
Anyway, I have these dreams, but you've seen how much meadmaker has going in the kitchen. I have another6 gallons going to add, so I don't think it will be an issue of having enough.
Brewing
My experience here is much less than that of, say,
Liquid Sunshine (a plain mead - but made with only Orange Blossom Honey)
Blueberry Melomel (yummy - though next time I try it with blueberry honey, too).
Joshua's Blend (rasperry & coffee - so it's a cross between a melomel and a metheglin)
Cyser (apple metheglin) - this turned out a little weaker than I had hoped, but it's still yummy.
Since I have some ties to Mab, not as a matron or anything, but the ties are there, I would like to do a batch of Mab's Ride. Though, it probably wouldn't be ready before the next ride - so it's going to be a bit.
I would also like to get some other special brews going. Smaller ones, to be sure, but devoted to specific deities. Like a rhodomel (rose mead) for Aphrodite. Even better if I can collect the rose petals from somewhere near the ocean.
Or perhaps something with the pine barren honey that I hope to find in New Jersey next week - between that and juniper, I should be able to put together a nice piney metheglin.
Anyway, I have these dreams, but you've seen how much