A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.
Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.
Some starting points for beginners:
Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine
I've been making mead pretty consistently for 4-5 years now. Super fun.
I've got a (planned) quick turnaround strawberry mead currently fermenting that I plan to filter, back sweeten, and add some lemon flavor in to have a strawberry lemonade mead on tap for the summer.
Otherwise I've got probably around 25 gallons aging in the basement, including some weird stuff like tomato mead, lambic mead, and sea water mead.
That sounds amazing, can't wait to hear how it turns out!
I do. I was a semi regular poster in r/mead.
I think I have about 70L in secondary ageing at the moment, but nothing in primary atm
Very nice! I haven't made anything in so long. Got caught up building a racecar haha
Mead was my gateway drug into home brewing. About two months ago I paid $15 for a learn to make mead class a friend held, and came back with a one gallon carboy of must (4 lbs of honey) into which I tossed some homegrown haskaps and then pitched my yeast.
Before I even racked that off into secondary, I had a 3 gallon carboy holding a melomel made with local wild blueberries. It's taking a slower fermentation path, but when I tasted it at 1.055 SG it was all good.
Since then I've made ginger beer (just bottled) and 3 gallons of cider that's ready to be racked off, as well as several batches of kombucha.
For those of you who have trouble writing things down, if you have an Android iPhone I recommend trying out the Mead Mate app. Free, no ads, just focused on helping you track all the important data and data points. Helps my scattered mind!
Mead mate exists in Android too!
Hah, damned autocorrect--I did not mean to write "iPhone"!
Slightly hijacking this to say that if anybody feels like writing a post about mead making along the lines of the beer one, it would help populate that sidebar there yonder.
I have bees finally, and I am going to ve looking into making Mead this fall or next, so that would be helpful
Hijack away! I'm basically still new at it, I don't keep records cause I'm crazy like that do I'm not gonna volunteer but it's a great idea to ask!
A mead community!
Can we get the Lemmy version of r/prisonhooch now ;P
I don't know that we need a c/prisonhooch, some of those guys were nuts
If it doesn't exist, make it!
Feel free to make whatever you'd like, but I see no reason mead posts can't go in homebrewing. I don't make mead, but still would find the posts interesting.
I've made 3 batches of mead so far. A sweet, a semi-sweet and a dry. My favourite by far was the semi-sweet, and it only took about a month to finish clear and be drinkable!
Sounds lovely. I'm great at not writing down what I did so my really fantastic one I haven't been able to recreate.
Rule no. 1 of brewing, record keeping! 😂
🤣🤣 what are these rules? I need no rules! (I should probably follow the rules)
I picked up mead making as my pandemic hobby. Started with one gallon and ballooned from there.
That's how I started lol
Right? The first one in the jar, and the blurb blurb of the bubbles just spoke to me. Then it was like well this’ll take awhile, I should just start another!
I normally have a batch or two ready to rack about now, but life has had other plans this year.
I have a limited amount of bottles specifically so I can't just keep making more lmao. I know who I am as a person.
Been a while since I last made mead. I need to find me a good source for some honey and fix this. Best I ever managed to make was a blackberry mead, a good while back. Used a whole lot of foraged berries, real flavory and unexpectedly sweet. After the yeast finished fermenting it was still full of sugary goodness so I added champagne yeast and fermented some more. Don't recall the abv I managed to get on it, and being the neanderthal that I am I didn't write it down.
I'm terrible at not writing things down. I'd love to know what I put in the one that turned out amazing.
I bought a bunch of local honey and made some mead, and it was one of the nicest things I've ever brewed. Quite alcoholic, and tasted like flowers.
I just started mead brewing about 6ish months ago it seemed easier than brewing beer and wine just didn't have the same appeal. Plus I just really needed a non-tech hobby. 😅
So far LOVING it! My brews have been fermenting super quick (usually about a week but sometimes 2) and have been more than drinkable after a month. :)
My roommate got me into it :) it's much easier than my other hobby 🤣
I make mead