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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.
The pine metheglin would be very similar to the conifer mead, yes. That was actually a metheglin.
There's also a place on Nahant, a public beach, where there are roses. (or so I've heard) That may not be a place to choose because of history there. But I'd like roses that haven't been treated with all kinds of pesticides and such.
Regardless of history, they're the best place within easy driving distance to pick rose petals. Hands down. They're fragrent and non treated. Your only other bet would be to go to an organic florist and get a bouquet or something there like is done for beltane rose scones.
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Brewing
Date: 2004-03-17 06:59 am (UTC)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
Re: Brewing
Date: 2004-03-17 07:10 am (UTC)As far as the rhodomel goes, beach roses are the best. There are some phenomenal ones in Rhode Island in the summer.
Will that pine metheglin be like the conifer mead I tasted? As I recall, that was lovely stuff.
Re: Brewing
Date: 2004-03-17 07:12 am (UTC)There's also a place on Nahant, a public beach, where there are roses. (or so I've heard) That may not be a place to choose because of history there. But I'd like roses that haven't been treated with all kinds of pesticides and such.
Re: Brewing
Date: 2004-03-17 07:22 am (UTC)