Ended up with 5 bottles of the blueberry lemon mead. ๐Ÿท

The lemon came out a bit stronger than I had planned. It tastes like blueberry lemonade, which is not a bad thing, just not what I had planned, but that's how it goes sometimes.

We'll see how it ages!

@jcrabapple When is the Mead Open House? ๐Ÿ˜œ
@jkirkendall lol join my wife's book club. I've been doing quarterly tastings for them when they meet here.
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@jcrabapple Dummy question: What's mead?
@book honey wine. Fermented honey + water + fruit.

@jcrabapple ooooh

So, same as Rakiya?

@jcrabapple No, that's a fruit-based brandy. Sorry. Can you tell I don't drink?

@book lol that's ok, yeah rakiya uses things like plums for fermentation.

All you need for mead is honey, yeast, and water.

A fruit mead is called a melomel.

A mead with honey, yeast, and cider (instead of water) is called a cyser.

I've made elderberry, cranberry, a cyser, blueberry cyser, maple vanilla, orange cardamom, strawberry, to name a few.