Club mead day, 03/22/2025

[ctninh]

Good day all. Some members have been talking about making mead since our off-meeting at Honey Pot. We will be hosting an open mead making day where you can check out some other people's process and equipment.

The event is this Saturday, 03/22/2025, starting at 10 AM. The location will be messaged to you (it is in the Placentia/Yorba Linda area, a bit away from Stereo Brewing). Message here if you are think of going and we will contact you.

This is at a member's house. Feel free to bring homebrew to share.

Hope to see you there. Hope to see the mead at future meetings

-Calvin

[ctninh]

Also, I will be making 3 gals of mead.

[lexuschris]

I'll be making a 2-3 gallon batch from a large jar of honey a friend found for me. Not sure of the variety, but it looks like the kind you find in the desert at a roadside stand.. so probably Desert Mesquite or something similar.
--LexusChris

[romen]

I'll be making mead. Still looking to supplement some more honey so might be out hunting before the event.

[ctninh]

My mead is going well. Hope everyone likes stirring.

-Calvin

[lexuschris]

Hey all!

What a great time hanging out making mead on Saturday! Everyone brought a lot of good energy, thought & questions to the day, and we had fun making mead and re-learning how to take gravity readings with a refractometer!

Justin, thanks for sharing your space and making it easy for us! We also had a mini mead tasting with some home-made meads, and a nice local mead from Honey Pot! I'll see about posting some photos of the day...

I think everyone had some really great ideas on where to go with their mead: Old Fashion Mead, Pear Mead, Berry Mead, or just spices! I opted to add ginger and lemon zest for now, and maybe some all-spice as it goes.. we will see.

Generally, we targeted a 32 brix OG which is about 1.135 SG. With the D-47 yeast, it will likely tox-out at 15% ABV ... so about 16.5 brix direct-read, and about 1.025 SG. If you want to drop the sweetness, you can always add some water at end to get your FG where you like... 1/3 sugar break should be about 26.5 brix direct read.

Hope everyone is having fun watching their must sizzle and foam when stirred! Let us know how it is going!
--Lexuschris