mead

KaleoXxX

KaleoXxX

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i drank some mead with a friend the other day and it was so good. it tastes so sweet and it warms your chest right after it hits your stomach. i felt like i could go out in reindeer skins on the coldest wintery days and be warm enough to rape and pillage a small comunity of thatch roffed cottages. after reading the bottle and a recipe online im really interested in brewing my own mead. i want to start asap so i can enjoy it asap. if anyone has any input, or just wants to talk about mead, just say whatever
 
KaleoXxX

KaleoXxX

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Take of spring water what quantity you please, and make it more than blood-warm, and dissolve honey in it till 'tis strong enough to bear an egg, the breadth of a shilling; then boil it gently near an hour, taking off the scum as it rises; then put to about nine or ten gallons seven or eight large blades of mace, three nutmegs quartered, twenty cloves, three or four sticks of cinnamon, two or three roots of ginger, and a quarter of an ounce of Jamaica pepper; put these spices into the kettle to the honey and water, a whole lemon, with a sprig of sweet-briar and a sprig of rosemary; tie the briar and rosemary together, and when they have boiled a little while take them out and throw them away; but let your liquor stand on the spice in a clean earthen pot till the next day; then strain it into a vessel that is fit for it; put the spice in a bag, and hang it in the vessel, stop it, and at three months draw it into bottles. Be sure that 'tis fine when 'tis bottled; after 'tis bottled six weeks 'tis fit to drink.
 
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chitownsmoking

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wtf is this mead shit does it get you high? dont sound like it man...
 
gogrow

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chitownsmoking said:
wtf is this mead shit does it get you high? dont sound like it man...
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its honey-wine...... gets you drunk and tastes good

I've never had any, but i have been looking into brewing up my own batch to try it out.... I've got a friend that is heavy into beekeeping, so i can get gallons for cheap.... just learning a bit more before i venture to try it.
 
KaleoXxX

KaleoXxX

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thank you guys!

mead is great. had some the other day. 21% is fucking high proof for a "wine". its perfect for drinking outside on cold days, warms you right up
 
Leothwyn

Leothwyn

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I've made mead a few times in the past. Right now I have a small batch going - it's a blend of blackberries and honey. Sort of a blend of mead and blackberry wine. I've done it once before, and it turned out really nice.
Something I've been really curious about is distilling mead. Not super distilled, high proof - where you just have clear alcohol without much flavor. I'm thinking more of a medium proof, flavorful mead-brandy. I'm going to try it someday.
 
KaleoXxX

KaleoXxX

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sounds incredible. do you have any tips or recipes better than the one in my second post here?

id love to start makin my own so i can start drinking my own
 
Leothwyn

Leothwyn

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Kaleo - I don't have any recipes offhand. I think I probably used something from one of my brewing books. I'm sure a google search would turn up quite a few.

I thought I'd share some info that I thought was interesting. A book that I'm reading (The Name of the Wind - excellent book BTW) mentioned 'metheglin'. It sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember what it was. Looked it up:

A mead that also contains spices (like cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg) or herbs (such as oregano or even lavender or chamomile) is called metheglin. The etymon of this word is the Welsh word meddyglyn, meaning "medicinal liquor", as healing herbs were often stored as metheglin so they would be available over the winter (as well as making them much easier to swallow). Slavic miod/med, which means "honey", derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
A mead that contains fruit (such as strawberry, blackcurrant or even rose-hips) is called melomel and was also used as a delicious way to "store" summer produce for the winter.
Mulled mead is a popular winter holiday drink, where mead is flavoured with spices and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it.
Hippocras is spiced grape wine sweetened with honey. A grape-based wine with added honey, or a wine made by fermenting grape juice and honey together, is called a pyment.
Cyser is made with (hard) apple cider and honey; braggot or bracket is made with malted barley and honey.
 
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Leothwyn said:
Kaleo - I don't have any recipes offhand. I think I probably used something from one of my brewing books. I'm sure a google search would turn up quite a few.

I thought I'd share some info that I thought was interesting. A book that I'm reading (The Name of the Wind - excellent book BTW) mentioned 'metheglin'. It sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember what it was. Looked it up:

A mead that also contains spices (like cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg) or herbs (such as oregano or even lavender or chamomile) is called metheglin. The etymon of this word is the Welsh word meddyglyn, meaning "medicinal liquor", as healing herbs were often stored as metheglin so they would be available over the winter (as well as making them much easier to swallow). Slavic miod/med, which means "honey", derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
A mead that contains fruit (such as strawberry, blackcurrant or even rose-hips) is called melomel and was also used as a delicious way to "store" summer produce for the winter.
Mulled mead is a popular winter holiday drink, where mead is flavoured with spices and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it.
Hippocras is spiced grape wine sweetened with honey. A grape-based wine with added honey, or a wine made by fermenting grape juice and honey together, is called a pyment.
Cyser is made with (hard) apple cider and honey; braggot or bracket is made with malted barley and honey.
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this is a wonderful idea.. not that it is new, just lost;-).... this ^^ is exactly the kinds of things that modern medicine is completely overlooking.... like that mead with lavender/chammomile, would be a wonderful relaxant/anxiety reliever... just one glass would do wonders for a stressful day or a bout with insomnia.... any medicinal herbs could be used in this way, probably most effectively with an alcohol extraction and then mixing with the mead afterwards.... now i am even more interested here :-P
 
Leothwyn

Leothwyn

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I love a good beer, but when I'm going to be out in the hot sun drinking, I go for ice cold Pabst.
I just hope hotrod wasn't talking about mixing Pabst and Jagermeister. :)

Speaking of good beers... If you get a chance, try Baltic Porter (I think it's by Alaskan Brewing). It's brewed with brown sugar, vanilla beans, and dark cherries; and is aged in oak. Great stuff. It's not something you'd want to drink a ton of... real rich, and 10% alcohol.
 
Woomeister

Woomeister

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I used to sell Mead in my restaurant. Very prevalent in Britain throughout the centuries. To sweet for me.
 
Woomeister

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Hope this doesnt count as spam: Just one of my suppliers



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