Viking Mead

One year ago I made mead following an old Viking recipe. It has four ingredients:

Water, raisins, honey and yeast. Well there is one more ingredient: time!

After 30 days this mead was bottled and put away.

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This past weekend I popped open the final product and had a taste:

To my surprise it was very bubbly and very strong. I had the alcohol listed at about 7% but I feel it was probably a bit higher. It was very dry, which is how I like it…the wife likes them sweeter. Maybe next time I will try for the sweeter mead. 

Can you guess what holiday is upon us?

​Just a friendly reminder of the current holiday:

Day 40

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And on day 40 we moved everything over to a new jug and added: Cinnamon, cloves and honey.

And now the long wait happens, we let this sit for about 4 months. I will bottle it around Labor Day…..more to come! 

New Baby

​We start this new year with a new fur baby: Bailey Piddles:

She is a golden doodle….I have no idea what that means. We got her from some stranger in the parking lot of a Home Goods….

The wife wanted to stop and look….and 30 seconds later we have a new baby! She is full of energy, tootsie rolls and puddles! 

Welcome to the family!

Apple Spice Mead

​I have taken on the mantle of making mead, honey wine.

I have always been fascinated with the idea of brewing your own booze, but the idea of setting up a whole elaborate set just was not what I was into. 

So last Christmas the wife got me this mead kit and I was off to the races. I made my first and second batch with the kit and the ingredients they supplied. The third one I used an old Viking recipe that used only the ingredients one could have found back then, and the last one I made I followed a blueberry mead recipe I found on YouTube. I will not be doing the blueberry mead again….that was way too sweet for my taste!

And now I am trying another recipe I found on the YouTube….Apple Spice Mead.

Simple ingredients:

Apples, honey, apple juice, cinnamon sticks and some cloves.

I am currently on step one: fermentation. This is supposed to last 40 days….once that part is done we will circle back