Saturday, February 23, 2019 I haven’t posted in awhile. I guess you can say I have been kind of disappointed in my meads. Thus far, I have made 4 batches: Lavender blueberry Coffee vanilla bochet Gingerbread bochet Oatmeal chocolate bochet Of the first three batches, I absolutely LOVED the coffee bochet. Others tasted it and…
Chocolate Oatmeal Bochet Update
December 1, 2018 Degassed and took a gravity measurement – 1.016. Almost done. Smells good and boozy. I stirred in more nutrient and energizer. Last nutrient addition. It smells somewhat floral but also of cinnamon. I also took another taste test. You can definitely taste the higher alcohol level – feel the burn! It’s smooth…
Chocolate Oatmeal Bochet is a GO!
November 26, 2018 Today I started my fourth batch of mead. I re-discovered the Meadery that hosted a mead tasting that my wife and I attended 5 years ago. It was the one that first piqued my interest in mead – Sap House Meadery in New Hampshire. I looked at their website and at the…
Do Most Mead Makers Disrespect Bochet?
November 22, 2018 Last week was my wedding anniversary. My wife and I planned a short getaway 30 miles away from home in Virginia wine country. To my surprise, my wife scheduled a tasting at a local meadery I didn’t even know existed: Stonehouse Meadery! Stonehouse is a family operation. Tastings are by appointment only….
Gingerbread Mead Primary Complete
October 31, 2018 It’s been a couple of days since I stirred / measured the SG of my latest mead, so I figured I’d take a reading (and a taste) tonight after the trick-or-treating festivities were over. I had a hunch that fermentation would be complete, since it was down around 1.002 last time I…
Gingerbread Mead Update – Not Gingerbread Mead?
October 18, 2018 It’s Day 4 since I started the Gingerbread Bochet. It’s bubbling like a champ, which is super terrific. I’m now 2 for 3 on actually getting my meads to start fermenting, which is a pretty shitty record. But I am hoping I have the yeast rehydration process down for now. Anyhoo, I’ve…
Gingerbread Bochet Started
October 14, 2018 This afternoon I started my third batch of mead. I was hoping to find some sour cherries to try to get some wine-like flavors, but they are out of season and I didn’t see anything in the frozen section of my grocery store, so my Plan B was a holiday flavored mead….
First Meads Bottled!
September 30, 2018 The Mead Must Flow! Today I bottled the Lavender Blueberry and Coffee Vanilla Bochet meads! Yay! My first bottling! I put the Lavender Blueberry into 7 375-ml bottles and the Coffee Vanilla Bochet into a 750-ml wine bottle and 5 375-ml bottles. I bought the 375 ml bottles from a guy I…
Re-Racked Coffee Bochet
September 8, 2018 Today I also re-racked the coffee bochet. I wanted to get it off the potential infection / mold that I posted about a week ago. Plus of course I had to get a taste of that stuff. I siphoned into a sterile ferm bucket while I sterilized the carboy. I also took…
Blueberry Melomel Ready for Aging
September 8, 2018 Today I re-racked the blueberry melomel. Of course, I took a gravity reading and a taste. The gravity came out as 1.004, which makes sense because I added some honey after the last reading of 0.998. Let’s call that the Final Gravity. So that’s an ABV of about 12.6%. There is definitely…
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