hahayepyep
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I've crept this forum for some time and it's how I found the BOMM recipe/protocol. I liked it so much that I looked through everything on his website. My interest was really piqued by the Fidnemed Short Metheglin. I love mead and I love herbal teas, so I gave it a whirl using my own concoction in the general spirit of the tea mix spec'd in the recipe with stuff I had on hand: dandelion root, calendula, hibiscus, orange peel, ginger, and tettnanger hops. With clover honey, everything else was to spec. OG was about 1.054. I fermented in a glass 1 gallon jug with cheesecloth rubber banded over the top. No airlock. Agitated the first 3 days.
I was FLOORED at how good this was! 6 days to 1.000 dry (at 65F), crystal clear after a 24(ish) hour cold crash, and 1 week bottle conditioned with corn sugar (with half of it force carbed in PET soda bottles). I think the bottle conditioned stuff came out better, but both were dynamite.
I rinsed the yeast and did a second batch with it using Celestial Seasonings Country Peach Passion tea (16 bags) and 1 TBS of ground ginger. This one was bone dry in 4 days! Cold crashed, added 1 TBS of Fee Bros Peach Bitters and bottle conditioned with a little over 1 oz of peach Monin syrup. This one was even better than the first! I will make this again with hops, soon.
The next batch is going to be from an orange spice tea I have on hand. I hope to get 4 runs out of the yeast.
I'm floored at how simple this is, how good it is, and how FAST it is. There's a local brand of "session meads" that I was buying lately, but I wasn't super thrilled with them because they were a little thin and boring. Bray's short mead procedure is far superior to those!
I'm planning on maybe doing a Red Zinger batch, and a lavender chamomile batch, down the road, too.
Has anyone else tried something similar to this? I'd love to get some recipe ideas!
I was FLOORED at how good this was! 6 days to 1.000 dry (at 65F), crystal clear after a 24(ish) hour cold crash, and 1 week bottle conditioned with corn sugar (with half of it force carbed in PET soda bottles). I think the bottle conditioned stuff came out better, but both were dynamite.
I rinsed the yeast and did a second batch with it using Celestial Seasonings Country Peach Passion tea (16 bags) and 1 TBS of ground ginger. This one was bone dry in 4 days! Cold crashed, added 1 TBS of Fee Bros Peach Bitters and bottle conditioned with a little over 1 oz of peach Monin syrup. This one was even better than the first! I will make this again with hops, soon.
The next batch is going to be from an orange spice tea I have on hand. I hope to get 4 runs out of the yeast.
I'm floored at how simple this is, how good it is, and how FAST it is. There's a local brand of "session meads" that I was buying lately, but I wasn't super thrilled with them because they were a little thin and boring. Bray's short mead procedure is far superior to those!
I'm planning on maybe doing a Red Zinger batch, and a lavender chamomile batch, down the road, too.
Has anyone else tried something similar to this? I'd love to get some recipe ideas!