Dragon mead

DangZagnut · 2019-10-28T05:11:29+00:00

Mead, as you know, is made from honey, rather than rice, barley, grapes, or wheat like various beers, sake, and wine.

Mead is an ancient method of making alcohol. It’s honey, water, and yeast as basic components. There are chemical signatures of mead fermentation dating back 9000 years.

It was replaced with ales, since it’s clearly easier and cheaper to just use barley, malt, wheat, etc, then fight off bees and deal with that whole mess.

I don’t have a fedora or katana, but I’m in Florida, where we have lots of orange blossoms, and therefore orange blossom honey all over the place. Plus mead has a unique flavor profile. I just like fermenting many types of beers and wines, and from three generations of distillers and I just like mead.

I prefer my mead sweet, and sparkling, which mean a shorter fermentation cycle and bottling while still having some ferment going, during the bottling phase where additional sugars are introduced so the bottle will naturally sparkle than the cruder compressed CO2 method. It makes a wonderful champagne type pop (hence the wired bottles I'm using, and makes gigantic bubbles in the glass, which if you do mead competitions they hate, since they're all about still meads. Screw those guys, I like it bubbly.

Mead is just honey, water, and yeast, but many “kinds” of mead recipes exist. To name a couple:

Acerglyn: A mead made with honey and maple syrup.
Bilbemel: A mead made with blueberries, blueberry juice
Black mead:A blend of honey and blackcurrants.
Blue mead: A type of mead where fungal spores are added during first fermentation, lending a blue tint to the final product. I've never made this one as yet.
Bochet: A mead where the honey is caramelized or burned separately before adding the water. Yields toffee, caramel, chocolate and toasted marshmallow flavors. Very chocolatey, and when you screw up like I do, you ruin whatever you made the bochet in.
Braggot: brewed with honey and hops
Capsicumel: A mead flavored with chilli peppers. This can be really fun, because when have you had an alcohol drink that burned like drinking hot sauce and had an endorphin and alcohol effect?
Cyser: A blend of honey and apple juice fermented together
Metheglin: Metheglin is traditional mead with herbs or spices added. The word “medicine” is derived from this as it was used to make various potions as curatives.
Melomel: Mead with various fruits and berries added for flavor.
Pyment: A melomel made from the fermentation of a blend of grapes and honey and can be considered either a grape mead or honeyed wine.
Rubamel: A specific type of Melomel made with raspberries. I have a red raspberry one fermenting right now.
Short Mead: A mead made with less honey than usual and intended for immediate consumption. Like a lower alcohol wine.

I make a lot of pyments and cysers, which are honey based grape wines and apple cider based meds.

This particular mead, I made is a melomel, as it is fruit based and isn’t a specific like a cyser, pyment, or other mixture by name.

It’s made with dragon fruit. A product of Florida, like the orange blossom honey, but also from south american countries.

Dragon fruit gives it the reddish coloration, as mead is generally golden in color. It has a sweet taste, but introduced into primary fermentation it has its sugars consumed by the yeast, and ends up providing a sour, spicy flavor.

So this is a high honey, short mead, by duration, and a melomel by type, and all meads, like wines, benefit by aging, It was in primary fermentation for 6 weeks, then moved to secondary fermentation, and cold crashed, then bottled tonight.

So I’m drinking some now, but after a year or so it will be much more mellow. Like it’ll last that long. It has a burning, hot taste currently, it's around 14% abv, or 28 proof, hence the hot flavor.

DangZagnut · 2019-10-28T06:33:12+00:00

Never tried a mead how strong is it? No wait let me rephrase if i drink all 5 of those bottles how drunk will i be?

MinuteManLarry · 2019-10-28T11:54:13+00:00

I'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead

Ridzzzz153 · 2019-10-28T13:22:43+00:00

Now this, is a grisbosque tier post.

Amazing content and amazing lookin mead.

Mefic_vest · 2019-10-28T07:20:04+00:00

Aren’t you supposed to leave headspace even when bottling alcohols?

Grant1412 · 2019-10-28T06:42:16+00:00

I love mead! The stuff is fantastic!

The only reason I discovered it was because I'm gluten intolerant and after years of denial, I finally had to admit defeat... which meant no more beer..

I then eventually found mead and absolutely loved it. Way better than beer!

dodgedthatbulletboi · 2019-10-28T09:32:18+00:00

I’ll get drunk off your mead. Sounds awesome and apparently you are knowledgeable. I give this post 9/10. 10/10 if I had some of that mead.

hookbill2 · 2019-10-28T18:03:24+00:00

Looks awesome, i just bottled a tripple berry and am planning my winter mead now.

PimpinAce175 · 2019-10-29T05:10:43+00:00

hell yea bro i love mead

lonewolfsigmamgtow · 2019-10-28T11:41:27+00:00

So could ya show one from the orange blossoms as well ? I love oranges btw.

DangZagnut · 2019-10-28T16:12:21+00:00

Do you have a store room to age your wine?

make_the_ipp · 2019-10-28T22:09:32+00:00

This is amazing. I just killed some Viking Blod last night. I'm getting into mead a lot this year. You can really taste the ingredients that go into a Mead.

Title	Dragon mead
Author	DangZagnut
Upvotes	108
Comments	35
Date	October 28, 2019 5:10 AM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/mgtow/comments/do4enm/dragon-mead/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MGTOW/dragon-mead.1602705 https://theredarchive.com/post/1602705

Comments