Making a Sour Mead with Lactobacillus Plantarum
Decided to fire up another sour mead this last week. This time without any brettanomyces or pedioucoccus. I’ll be souring this mead exclusively with L. Plantarum caplets. This allows the mead to...
Sour Red Currant Mead Recipe
Just when I thought I was out… They pulled me back in! I had been pulling myself away a bit from the sour mead adventures, as I mentioned in my sweet traditional mead post but it seems I couldn&...
How To Make A Sour Mead: Berliner Style
How To Make A Sour Mead Using the Sour Mash Method After writing a few articles on Lambic and sour mead making for homebrew talk, I found myself exploring new ways to create sour meads. This recipe re...
Brettanomyces Claussenii & Bruxelensis Bochet
This is a bochet brewed for the first round of my Bochet Solera Project. I Caramelized snowberry honey and pitched a full vial of White Labs Brettanomyces Claussenii (Brett C.). Brettanomyces C Bochet...
Second Generation Lambic Mead: Reusing the Sour Cake
Lambic Mead Making, and What I Learned Last Time This is a mead similar to my last Lambic mead. I learned a lot while I was making my last Lambic mead, and plan to use those lessons to make this batch...