homebrewing

[BlackBird]

That sounds delicious. I might have to try it sometime.

[Edwardo Piet]

I so wanna try mead. I've never ever had mead. It sounds amazing.

What other alcohol is it most similar to? Is it even remotely like anything else? Or is mead really completely unique? If there are similar alcoholic beverages what is the closest to it in similarity?

I'd love to know if I'd tried anything at all similar since I haven't tried mead.

[I_am_not_mafia]

If you distill mead....the resultant brandy is indescribable.......nothing else tastes like it.  Particularly Melomels, citrus really pops in the liquor.

That's good to know! I have always wanted to do distillation. There's a home brew shop just round the corner from me that sells sets for distilling although I always thought that it was illegal in the UK. I would like to set it up in our house in Germany though so I might end up buying something here and taking it all back with me next time I move back.

[The Grand Nudger]

I'd start with apple brandy, if I was just starting.  The product of final fermentation is roughly in-line with what you need for brandy - and it only takes a month or so.  With mead, the final gravity has to be finessed over the course of 3 to 6 months (minimum).

[Jackalope]

I so wanna try mead. I've never ever had mead. It sounds amazing.

What other alcohol is it most similar to? Is it even remotely like anything else? Or is mead really completely unique? If there are similar alcoholic beverages what is the closest to it in similarity?

I'd love to know if I'd tried anything at all similar since I haven't tried mead.

You have to understand that what you're asking here is a bit like "what's soda taste like?" If it's not flavored with adjuncts and it's allowed to ferment out completely, it's a bit like dry white wine. If left sweet, it can be a bit like a sweet Riesling or Moscato. However, it can be flavored with damn near anything.

[Jackalope]

It's too cold in my cellar, this time of year, for beer (or wine, really).  I brew through the warm months, and distill what's left for winter.

Wait, what? You have a naturally cool, dry cellar and you're not lagering?

[Edwardo Piet]

Good point CD thanks for you explanation it was very clear too

So what are one of your favorite mead flavours?

According to ratebeer this is the highest rated mead: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/schramms-th...ss/231441/

But I cannot decipher whether it's one flavour involving a mixture of cherry, raspberry and blackcurrant... or whether those are the 3 different variations of this brand.

Although of course we're talking about homebrew here

So what is your favourite flavoured mead CD? Do you have a favourite?

[BlackBird]

My husband would kill for a naturally cool dry cellar.

[I_am_not_mafia]

My husband would kill for a naturally cool dry cellar.

Our entire house in Germany is naturally cool but it would be rather pointless trying to brew lager there considering how easy and cheap it is to buy crates of the professional stuff there. To be honest I got rather bored of German beers and was always looking for something different. Black beer was interesting though. German liqueurs are always disgusting though.

I would love to brew in Germany but we don't often get a chance to live there. Not even for one season to start growing stuff.

[Cinjin]

Anybody here make their own beer/wine/mead/cider etc?

It's brew-weekend here. My husband is going to make a partial mash brown ale. I'm probably going to do a gallon of elderflower cider.

I live in the micro-brew capital of the country.  There's just no point in me brewing beer.  I'm surrounded by the most amazing award-winning brewers on the planet.