#mead

2026-02-20
2026-02-18
Seth Rutledgeeldritch48
2026-02-16

Bottled my Earl Grey mead this afternoon. Fafnir gave me a hand.

My tabby cat, Fafnir, standing next to my 1 gallon fermenting bottle on my kitchen counter.  Label on the bottle says "12/07 OG 1.15"
2026-02-13

From concept to the first ever bottle of Wyrd Mead (as seen on the bottom right by Mark Hansen when we got him a bottle of our first batch), this design still highlights our brand and it can be seen in many color variations per flavor.

Mark has an Etsy page for all his creations, go support him!

@MarkH

#wyrdmead #wyrdmeadery #mead #oregon #portland

2026-02-12
2026-02-12

@Kiraken89 being the best model for PNW mead. #mead #smallbiz #oregon #wyrdmead #PNW

2026-01-31
2026-01-08

The blackberry melomel (mead) is bottled! About 22.6 liters or so total. ;)

Sipping on a glass of dregs from the fill hose and it even tastes great. Alcohol presence that will mellow, fruity from the berries and floral from the honey. I'm very happy with the results.

12 bombers with crown caps for long term aging (maybe;), 12 liters, 4 pints.

50 days start to finish.

A photo of some of the full bottles of mead made with honey and blackberries. It is clear and red colored.  It is mostly clear 1 liter swing top bottles plus 2 tall pint swing top bottles.There are two 22 ounce brown bottles with crown caps on the left and right in front which also have add on swing tops to facilitate not having to drink a whole bottle at once... They rest on a bamboo counter top with lighting from above. Various clutter beyond but most obscured.. Bottled on January 7, 2026 while listening to Guns N. Roses Appetite For Destruction Super Deluxe Edition.
2025-12-29

Racked the blackberry melomel (mead) again.

it's been done fermenting for a week or more, been letting clear up a little. FG around 1.002. Degassed and potassium sorbate added. I'll back sweeten it with 2 lbs (900g) honey tomorrow plus chitosan and let it clear up. The honey is July 2024 vintage that did not crystalize.

It tastes good, very floral.

A plastic graduated cylinder with reddish liquid in it and a hydrometer. The hydrometer reads about 1.002 whatever it is units. ;) The background is clutter, or excess practicality.
David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2025-12-26

Help I have run out of #mead!

2025-12-21

Mead lovers! The mead shop in Prague, true fans of both mead and craft cider, are starting a mead subscription club 😃 If you have the money and love mead, this might be for you:

medovinarna.cz/en/news/new-mea

#Medovinarna
#medovina
#mead
#meadlovers

David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2025-12-20
2025-12-09
Das Bild zeigt eine Reihe von Flaschen Met (Honigwein) und Gläsern Honig, wahrscheinlich zur Präsentation oder zum Verkauf. Die Met-Flaschen haben ein schlichtes Etikett mit dem Wort "Met", der Angabe "Honigwein aus Donautal-Honig", dem Jahr 2025 und dem Alkoholgehalt von 13% Vol. Sie sind in einer Reihe aufgestellt, wobei die Etiketten gut sichtbar sind. Links davon stehen Gläser mit "Echter Deutscher Honig", genauer gesagt "Waldhonig", ebenfalls mit Etiketten versehen. Das Arrangement suggeriert eine Art Präsentation oder Verkaufsstand.
Seth Rutledgeeldritch48
2025-12-08

Started my next mead - Earl Grey and vanilla tea…OG 1.15, which is high, but if it completely ferments will be about 19% ABV. I expect 15-16% and some sweetness.

2025-12-05

Bubble bubble toil and trouble… the mead is coming along nicely in preparation for winter and bubbling well after a swish with the mead stick. #solstice #mead #witch #ogham

A jar with active mead bubbling inside and a mead stirring stick on top etched with ogham.
2025-12-04

Did not hit 50%, not self sustaining. Warmed slightly a la flambe, though, it is ***way*** more flammable than before (put a tiny bit in a pan over a low burner and the subsequent ignition was a "whoom!" 😬 But followed shortly by a cloud of fabulously pleasant smelling, sweet smoke. Did not lose my eyebrows!). Putting this stuff in one of those warming "air freshener" devices could be nice, LOL. Shortly after, a bee flying by came around to figure out what the smell was, lol. #mead #flambe

Icy mead being put through a coffee filterConcentrated mead in an ice cream container
2025-12-03

I racked the blackberry melomel (mead) into a carboy. Since the fruit was in a bag this process just removes seeds which were the only thing left in the bag. I topped it up with 1 cup of water, 15 grams of bentonite, and less than 100 grams of honey. The top of the carboy volume is always deceiving.

A photo showing a mesh bag inflated with air from fermentation in a 7 gallon fermentation bucket. It floats in a red liquid of blackberries and honey and water.The specific gravity reading looks like about 1.018. The melomel mead is also kind of clear.The carboy is very full after all additions. It is 80 mm from the top of the neck and has a little foam from the excitement of adding the bentonite/honey slurry.
2025-12-01

Bottled honey wine today. 25 750ml bottles, and 2 1.5 liter bottles.

Grapes from the 100 year old vine. Honey from the bees. 5 gallons from the grapes and 5.5 lbs of honey plus water to top it up and another 1.7 lbs of honey to back sweeten it.

It tastes pretty good actually, not dry and not sweet.

More details in the ALT.

A photo of 4 bottles of wine with the sun shining through them. Two large bottles in the middle are clear glass and two on either side are green glass. The sun shining through chair backs causes a striped effect. The wine is red and clear. Details of the process below.

Day 0 Pick grapes.

Day 1 smooshed grapes.

Day 10 grapes strained 5 gallons, 3.94 lbs of honey with water 1.25 gal added, and bentonite.

Racked on day 19,  topped up with 1.5 lbs honey in water totaling 64 fl oz.

Day 61 racked again, FG 1.001, added sorbate and de-gassed.

Day 62 back sweetened with 1.7 lbs honey in water totaling 32 oz fl oz. and pasteurized topping up the carboy and adding chitosan.

Day 64 added some pectic enzyme to get rid of what I suspect was pectin haze.

Day 90 Bottled.

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