Bonzai: Thoughts and Expressions

Liquid Gold

We all had a wonderful holiday this 4th of July weekend and I hope everyone reading this blog was as fortunate. Aside from the usual fireworks and cookout, I took advantage of the day off to bottle the latest batch of mead.

This batch was a drier recipe but with a higher percentage of alcohol. I haven’t figured it out yet but I think the alcohol level should be around 14-15% and it isn’t as sweet as most of my previous batches. The down side of this particular set of variables is that it can take longer to age out. This is proving to be the case as my testing samples (bottle?…hic!) are pretty evident that this needs some more time in the bottle. It is going to be good though, and it won’t take that long, relatively speaking. It has been ‘bulk aging’ in the carboy for more than a year now, but it needs a bit more.

Above is a picture of the finished product prior to labels. I haven’t figured out what my label is going to be this time. I was thinking of something like “Yankee Wino Mead” but that may not go over so well here with my neighbors. We’ll see what comes to me when I sit down to do the label. I must say that looking at those bottles just made my mouth water for some of it. The total yield was 22 bottles – just 2 bottles short of 2 full cases. Come on down and help me drink this up!

posted by Bonzai @ 11:36 PM