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🍑 found some time this weekend to bottle up summer! Just under a year from pitch to bottle for SUNBURST b2 which include...
09/22/2024

🍑 found some time this weekend to bottle up summer! Just under a year from pitch to bottle for SUNBURST b2 which includes around of a pound of Michigan Red Haven peaches per bottle of finished mead along with California Orange Blossom honey and a bit of apricot. The result is juicy, sweet, tangy, and a reminder of summer - really happy with this one!

Happy 3rd birthday, little man! Celebrated my son’s birthday and shared his namesake mead with family and friends! Two y...
07/02/2023

Happy 3rd birthday, little man! Celebrated my son’s birthday and shared his namesake mead with family and friends! Two years in bottle and still hitting the right notes: jammy, tart, tannic, and no signs of oxidation. Excited to revisit next year!

🔴🟤 A celebration of leaning hard into ornate gingerbread house construction, “Gingerbread Architect” is now bottled! It ...
12/04/2022

🔴🟤 A celebration of leaning hard into ornate gingerbread house construction, “Gingerbread Architect” is now bottled! It is a metheglin that combines Michigan star thistle honey from Sleeping Bear Farms with Gingerbread Dream: a rooibos tea that includes Guatemalan ginger, sliced almonds, pistachios, Mekong cinnamon, Spanish orange peel, Indian coriander, spice essence, and baby pink peppercorns. The resulting mead was also conditioned on whole Mexican vanilla beans. Excited to share this one with friends and family over the holidays!

Jason from made the trek down to Chicago and we swapped some bottles! Really loving his Cab Franc / Cranberry mead. Giv...
07/10/2022

Jason from made the trek down to Chicago and we swapped some bottles! Really loving his Cab Franc / Cranberry mead. Give him a follow!

Happy Birthday, little man! Shared one of my coveted Reid bottles with friends and family yesterday. Still amazing one y...
07/03/2022

Happy Birthday, little man! Shared one of my coveted Reid bottles with friends and family yesterday. Still amazing one year later.

🚨Mead Sample Giveaway🚨It’s been far too long since I did a giveaway and there’s a bunch of reasons why a big one is in o...
06/23/2022

🚨Mead Sample Giveaway🚨

It’s been far too long since I did a giveaway and there’s a bunch of reasons why a big one is in order: ✅ 500 followers, ✅ got a Mazer Cup, and ✅ we’re moving to the Chicago suburbs so every bottle I give away is less I have to move 😂

Rules are simple: comment “In” for a chance to win. Comment “Local” if you (or a friend) can pickup in Avondale, Chicago for two chances to win. I’ll pick three winners to each get two bottles. Tag your friends: if I hit 600 followers, I’ll pick five winners (ten bottles total). For non-local winners, provide me with a prepaid FedEx label and I’ll send it to you.

Up for grabs is some combination of: EternalBlue, SUNBURST, Proxy Continuation, Rumtime Error, Generics:Mesquite, DateTime, and probably some others oldies but goodies.

🥂21+ only, please
🌎CONUS only, please
👍Winner has to follow
⏰Closes Saturday, June 25 at 1p CT
✅Cross-posted to Facebook, but only Instagram comments count

Good luck and cheers!

🟠🔵I’m incredibly happy with how “SUNBURST” ended up! It’s a sweet melomel with 9lbs of Michigan peaches and apricots, Ca...
06/23/2022

🟠🔵I’m incredibly happy with how “SUNBURST” ended up! It’s a sweet melomel with 9lbs of Michigan peaches and apricots, California orange blossom honey (by way of Michigan), and it uses organic Georgia Peach Nectar rooibos tea in place of water. The result is bright, sweet, citrusy, and ready for summer! The last photo is from one of my favorite Michigan wineries from our trip last summer; the sunset colors inspired the label.

Found time this Father’s Day weekend to bottle up SUNBURST, my peach tea melomel. More pics and maybe a giveaway coming ...
06/20/2022

Found time this Father’s Day weekend to bottle up SUNBURST, my peach tea melomel. More pics and maybe a giveaway coming soon!

Racking and tasting “Float”, a metheglin that includes star thistle honey from Michigan and an incredible rooibos tea b...
04/02/2022

Racking and tasting “Float”, a metheglin that includes star thistle honey from Michigan and an incredible rooibos tea blend with loads of great flavors. The result is sweet, spiced, and velvety. Needs a bit more time, but this is looking promising for later this year.

Tasting SUNBURST, the result of our late summer family vacation to Michigan. It includes Michigan Red Haven peaches, Mic...
02/06/2022

Tasting SUNBURST, the result of our late summer family vacation to Michigan. It includes Michigan Red Haven peaches, Michigan apricots, California orange blossom honey, and Rare Tea Cellar Georgia Peach Rooibos tea. This is punch you in the face peach and I love it. Going to be awesome once the weather gets warmer!

🔴🟤 This one has been a wild ride since I started it 15 months ago. “DateTime” started with 2.5lb of Medjool and Deglet N...
01/17/2022

🔴🟤 This one has been a wild ride since I started it 15 months ago. “DateTime” started with 2.5lb of Medjool and Deglet Noor dates split in half with the pits intact, equal parts avocado blossom and Tupelo honeys, and my first time using D254 yeast which is supposed to promote ripe fruit, jam, and cedar aromas in red wines and butterscotch, hazelnut, and almond aromas in white wines. Then, in secondary, I added more Deglet Noor dates and medium toast French oak for a month. The result was very strong at 17.7% - it needed some additional honey and a lot of time to mellow out.

Fast forward a year and the result is fantastic. Some earthiness and butteriness from the honeys, and then caramel, date, toffee, and oak for days. It’s still a strong one, but I’m excited to lay down these bottle for awhile and see what happens next!

⚪️🟡 In my opinion, traditionals are the hardest mead variety to get right because there’s nowhere to “hide” flaws: the o...
01/17/2022

⚪️🟡 In my opinion, traditionals are the hardest mead variety to get right because there’s nowhere to “hide” flaws: the only ingredients are honey, water, and yeast. I’d like to get better at them so I’m starting a new series called “Generics” to highlight a different varietal of honey with a traditional mead.

“Generics: Mesquite” is a dry traditional made with mesquite blossom honey from Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. The result has some minerality and light stone fruit flavors, reminiscent of a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc to me. Thanks for the honey!

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