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A Knightly Vintage: For All that Ale's You

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Thorsteinn:
For 1 gal Mead:

1 Fermentation Lock
1 gal Bottled water in a 1 gal plastic jug (Jug will be fermentation vessel).
1 quart extra water.
3-4lbs honey.
1 Lemon, cut in half.
6-8 whole cloves.
1-2 cinnamon sticks.
1 package bread yeast (like Fleishmans).
2 empty & sanitized 2 liter soda bottles.

Add water to pot. Mark level (I use a wooden spoon). Add 1 quart extra water.
Turn on stove, add honey, bring to rolling boil. Skim off scum.
When little scum is coming up add spices & juice lemon into pot & add halves.

Boil till a minimum of scum comes up and you have reduced to just below 1 gal mark. Let cool over night. Strain mead into jug, add around 1/3-1/2 packet of yeast. Cap with lock and place out of sunlight.

Initial fermentation will start in 24-48 hrs. After that, let ferment 3 days. Uncap vessel, put in pot, cut hole near bottom above dead yeast line & drain. Put Mead into 2 liter bottles removing as much air from them as possible. Cap & put in fridge for 2 weeks remembering to release gas from bottles 1-3 times a day as appropriate or they will explode.

Open & Enjoy!

Sir Edward:

--- Quote from: RauttSkegg on 2012-06-26, 00:20:20 ---Cap & put in fridge for 2 weeks remembering to release gas from bottles 1-3 times a day as appropriate or they will explode.

--- End quote ---

Exploding mead bottles. Sounds like a party!

It would be a real gas... err, I mean we'd have a blast... err... dangit. :)

Sir Gerard de Rodes:
A fantastic Mead that we consume in quite large quantities over here is Moniack Mead. Drunken Monk also do a good one.
All best drunk as mead should be, out of an unwashed mead horn of course ( seems to add to the flavour )  ;)

G.

Lord Dane:
For this week's vintage, I shall consider one of my personal best (yet cheapest) favorite Spanish sparkling wines...Segura Viudas. www.seguraviudasusa.com  :)

A fine vintage for those of you that love dry white-sparkling wines from the cava regions of Spain.  Here's one of my personal loves that ranges from $6.99-$24.99 with a 12-14% alcohol content.  I've tried them all!!

1.) Extra Dry (Ok but too dry for my pallet)
2.) Brut Rose (Perfect vintage for right price)
3.) Aria Estate Brut (Good with chicken, seafood, cheese, fruits)
4.) Aria Extra Dry (Ok but again..too dry)
5.) Aria Pinot Noir (Good variance for desserts)
6.) Reserva Heredad (Top pick for special occasions)

Try & offer thoughts. :) 

Sir Rodney:
I'm going to have to try that quick mead recipe!

We like to make cordials to pass around the feast table.  I named our latest concoction "The Root of All Evil", a root beer schnapps.

1 cup hot very water
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup liquor (100 proof vodka or use 190 proof Everclear for an extra kick in the pants  :o )
1 teaspoon root beer concentrate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1. Dissolve the sugar in hot water
2. Add liquor, concentrate and vanilla while stirring well.
3. Bottle and store in the 'fridge.
4. Print fancy labels as gifts to your friends (and to not forget which batch is 50 proof vs. 95 proof!)

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