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Food & crafts => Home brewing => Topic started by: chairmanphil on March 01, 2012, 03:34:31 pm

Title: 4 year old mead
Post by: chairmanphil on March 01, 2012, 03:34:31 pm
i have just noticed that my mead from 2008 has stopped fermenting! time to dig out some bottles and decant it this weekend.

does anyone else make mead?
Title: Re: 4 year old mead
Post by: Mammyshaz on March 01, 2012, 09:51:11 pm
Not mead but OH often makes wines, he has been looking at mead. The last lot of wine overflowed several times  ::) in it's ferment year so riot persued ( singlehandedly by moi! ) now he is wanting to try mead.
4 YEARS.... There's NO chance! 
Title: Re: 4 year old mead
Post by: chairmanphil on March 01, 2012, 09:58:04 pm
Not mead but OH often makes wines, he has been looking at mead. The last lot of wine overflowed several times  ::) in it's ferment year so riot persued ( singlehandedly by moi! ) now he is wanting to try mead.
4 YEARS.... There's NO chance!

what ya want is some bee keepers with some fermenting honey!
Title: Re: 4 year old mead
Post by: Sylvia on March 02, 2012, 09:37:53 am
I used to make mead with my honey cappings. You need to keep it another 3 or 4 years after bottling (try to keep a couple of bottles anyway you'll be amazed at the difference :yum:)
Title: Re: 4 year old mead
Post by: chairmanphil on March 02, 2012, 09:43:03 am
I used to make mead with my honey cappings. You need to keep it another 3 or 4 years after bottling (try to keep a couple of bottles anyway you'll be amazed at the difference :yum:)

great plan but word gets around when the bottles come out!  :D so so tempting