Strawberry Mead Update
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It has been two weeks since I started a strawberry mead. I decided to rack it over to another bottle to reducing the sediment. I thought maybe the aeropress would be helpful to filter out the yeast from the
mead, but that totally failed. The mead tasted horrible like a cheap alcohol. I'll leave it in the secondary fermenter for 2 months then bottle it. I'm hoping that if we wait a year it should taste amazing.
3 comments:
meads tend to not taste good until they've sat a good long while. some are tasty, especially if they were super-sweet to start with, at the time they're bottled. but we usually let them set at least a week after they've completely stopped bubbling (mostly because we have too much going on and have to get around to it) before attempting to bottle and/or taste.
hope this comes out good! strawberry should be a grand experiment.
@yarrow: How long do you typically wait before serving the mead? 2 months, a year?
I had a rose mead that wasn't drinkable until it sat for a year (then it was delicious, very subtle), and a blueberry that was awesome right away. So many variables. Don't give up on it; it might end up fabulous.
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