Mead Journal: Various Meads.
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matrix4bOk, I was encouraged to do more mead on Friday. Basically from my friends telling me at a party that they want me to make more mead and the mead that is aged 8 or more months is very yummy. (Watermelon excepted) So I got to work. My Friends want me to ramp up my production to the full legal limit. I don't think that I can do it, much less afford it. 250 gallons a year in Colorado is the legal limit for home brewing. That would be 50 carboys a year. Given that I would need more space that is like brewing one batch every Sunday and have two sunday's off from it. I Don't think I could handle it let alone the work for it. As I would be racking and bottling about once ever two weeks. The cost of honey would be for 900 pounds of honey, close to
$2200 in Honey and $100 in yeast, $600 in Yeast Nutrient and energizer. Not sure how much in water/glass/cleaning supplies. So to far that is about $3000. My guess is that It would cost me close to $5000 for everything except fruit. Not something that I could afford. Anyway on to the update:
Raspberry Thyme: I racked this back to the glass carboy, put in some Sparkloid to help clear it up some. It is currently a Deep Red color that is just plain beautiful. I was worried that the Thyme flavor was a bit metallic tasting when I tried it last and that ended up not being the case. It is tasty now but it does need to age. I need to wait for the sparloid to fully take effect and then bottle. I plan on giving it a month or so before I bottle it.
Peach Spearmint: I didn’t touch this one but it bears mentioning. The mead is a wonderful clear yellow amber color and you can read and see nice details strait through it. I suppose that it is ready to bottle but I will wait a bit yet. Need to have a bottling day set up to do so.
Pumpkin Toasted Almond Spice: This one I racked. The sparkloid did it’s thing and it is nice and clear, not as clear as the Peach Spearmint but it is made with pumpkins. I detected a pumpkin and almond flavor but this one definitely has an astringent taste of new mead. This tells me that it will end up less sweet that the others and probably end up a medium sweet mead. It also tells me that once aged it will probably be a really good one. Not too sweet for the people that don’t like it as sweet as I do.
Lemon/Lime: This one I racked due to the sediment. I also hit it up with some sparkloid and Potassium Sorbate. The Mead was not clear yet. I hit it with the Potassium Sorbate to stop fermentation. I tasted the mead and it was a definite lemon/lime flavor. Bit of a zing to it. I will need to back sweeten this one. That is the next step in about a month or so. Then on to oaking it. Probably do that at the same time. Oak and bask sweeten. This one still has good promise. I think that I will try to lengthen this out to a 6 gallon batch. I anticipate this one being popular. Be summer by the time it is done aging.
Blueberry Lemon: I got the primary started on this. I put just a little of the lemon extract I am making from the zest I had in the fridge for a few months. I feel that this one should turn out well. I only used 12 pounds of honey or 1 gallon. I plan on back sweetening this one but the blueberries will give it some more sweetness in the secondary fermentation.
My wife wants me to do a double chocolate batch and a triple honey mead batch (oaked). I don’t have enough honey. I have enough for maybe 2 more batches but no yeast. I need to go shopping:
Shopping List:
New Hydrometer and measuring tube
Yeast
Yeast Nutrient
Yeast Energizer
Honey
Sparkloid
More Carboy cleaning solution
Cacao Nibs, Coco Powder
Oak Chips: Light toasted, Medium Toasted, Heavy Toasted for Trinary test on Rockbitter.
Research:
Research how much Coco/Cacao Nibs to put in a 5-6 gal batch
Research bigger batches, also cost of a used Oak Barrel.
Research Step nutrient addition.
Reasearch Cold Pressed Coffee beans, best bean for flavor
New batches on future Slate:
Trinary Rockbitter Test (tale of Three Oaks)
Double Chocolate Batch: Chocolate Mint? Or just test of Cacao Nibs or Coco Powder.
Fig/Date?
Strawberry
Another Raspberry
While dolling out honey, I found that the opened bucket was crystallizing. I hope that my 42 pound bucket isn’t crystallizing. That’s about 2 and maybe 3 batches.
Labor Day in 2007 is when I started Brewing. So this year I will have 4 years under my belt and hopefully 16-20 batches.
That is all for now.
$2200 in Honey and $100 in yeast, $600 in Yeast Nutrient and energizer. Not sure how much in water/glass/cleaning supplies. So to far that is about $3000. My guess is that It would cost me close to $5000 for everything except fruit. Not something that I could afford. Anyway on to the update:
Raspberry Thyme: I racked this back to the glass carboy, put in some Sparkloid to help clear it up some. It is currently a Deep Red color that is just plain beautiful. I was worried that the Thyme flavor was a bit metallic tasting when I tried it last and that ended up not being the case. It is tasty now but it does need to age. I need to wait for the sparloid to fully take effect and then bottle. I plan on giving it a month or so before I bottle it.
Peach Spearmint: I didn’t touch this one but it bears mentioning. The mead is a wonderful clear yellow amber color and you can read and see nice details strait through it. I suppose that it is ready to bottle but I will wait a bit yet. Need to have a bottling day set up to do so.
Pumpkin Toasted Almond Spice: This one I racked. The sparkloid did it’s thing and it is nice and clear, not as clear as the Peach Spearmint but it is made with pumpkins. I detected a pumpkin and almond flavor but this one definitely has an astringent taste of new mead. This tells me that it will end up less sweet that the others and probably end up a medium sweet mead. It also tells me that once aged it will probably be a really good one. Not too sweet for the people that don’t like it as sweet as I do.
Lemon/Lime: This one I racked due to the sediment. I also hit it up with some sparkloid and Potassium Sorbate. The Mead was not clear yet. I hit it with the Potassium Sorbate to stop fermentation. I tasted the mead and it was a definite lemon/lime flavor. Bit of a zing to it. I will need to back sweeten this one. That is the next step in about a month or so. Then on to oaking it. Probably do that at the same time. Oak and bask sweeten. This one still has good promise. I think that I will try to lengthen this out to a 6 gallon batch. I anticipate this one being popular. Be summer by the time it is done aging.
Blueberry Lemon: I got the primary started on this. I put just a little of the lemon extract I am making from the zest I had in the fridge for a few months. I feel that this one should turn out well. I only used 12 pounds of honey or 1 gallon. I plan on back sweetening this one but the blueberries will give it some more sweetness in the secondary fermentation.
My wife wants me to do a double chocolate batch and a triple honey mead batch (oaked). I don’t have enough honey. I have enough for maybe 2 more batches but no yeast. I need to go shopping:
Shopping List:
New Hydrometer and measuring tube
Yeast
Yeast Nutrient
Yeast Energizer
Honey
Sparkloid
More Carboy cleaning solution
Cacao Nibs, Coco Powder
Oak Chips: Light toasted, Medium Toasted, Heavy Toasted for Trinary test on Rockbitter.
Research:
Research how much Coco/Cacao Nibs to put in a 5-6 gal batch
Research bigger batches, also cost of a used Oak Barrel.
Research Step nutrient addition.
Reasearch Cold Pressed Coffee beans, best bean for flavor
New batches on future Slate:
Trinary Rockbitter Test (tale of Three Oaks)
Double Chocolate Batch: Chocolate Mint? Or just test of Cacao Nibs or Coco Powder.
Fig/Date?
Strawberry
Another Raspberry
While dolling out honey, I found that the opened bucket was crystallizing. I hope that my 42 pound bucket isn’t crystallizing. That’s about 2 and maybe 3 batches.
Labor Day in 2007 is when I started Brewing. So this year I will have 4 years under my belt and hopefully 16-20 batches.
That is all for now.
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