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%title Mead.
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%date 2004-12-09 22:46:30
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:diary:livejournal:fossils:
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<details text="Wherein I talk about booze..."><summary>Wherein I talk about booze...</summary>Getting interested in making mead again, for some reason. I'd probably just start with a simple hydromel, but I have some ideas for what I want to try:
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- Sharp methyglin - sharp spices, like cardamom, cinnimon, nutmeg, cloves (you know, chai spices)
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- Smooth methyglin - smoother spices, like vanilla, almond extract, maybe dandylion flowers, maybe carob? Chicory? Lemon balm? Maple syrup?
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- Herbal methyglin - yarrow, dandylion greens, basil, lemon balm, mints, wormwood(?), hyssop, you know, the plant stuff. (NB: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/gv_ranna/56311.html">Herb beers</a>)
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- Medicinal methyglin - 'cause, if you're gonna take meds, take them with booze!
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- Simple cyser - cider-mead. Ryan might like this.
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- Some sort of melomel - dunno, just to try it. I'm not really big on berries, but they seem popular.
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- Tej or something - honey and hops.
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The rest are just fanciful ideas:
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- Theamel - TEA! Earl grey, lady grey, vanilla russian caravan, french blend, maybe even green tea?
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- Cafemel - hahaha, coffeemead! Actually, I see a recipe for orange-coffee mead, and that might be good. Also, a chocolate orange mead? Thought chocolate, I'm not sure of.
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- Floramel - flowers; lavender, rose, those things that used to grow outside the house on dartmouth? Or maybe sweeter things, like dandylion flowers, meadowsweet, &c.
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- Nucumel - can you make tea out of nuts, like almonds and hazelnuts?
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- Simple cyser - cider-mead. Ryan might like this.
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- Some sort of melomel - dunno, just to try it. I'm not really big on berries, but they seem popular.
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- Tej or something - honey and hops.
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I'm not really too keen on the idea of milk or chocolate meads, but they may be worth trying.
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<em>You know, you've not actually tried mead yet. You're not even sure you'll like it. Perhaps you should think about that first.</em>
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Pish and, conversely, tosh. How the hell do you think I get into all of my other obsessions?
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<em>Point. But your other obsessions might not take multiple months to brew.</em>
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Point.
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