Beer & Me

Yesterday I mentioned a mead that I bottled alongside my stout. Let me tell you about that mead.

When I got the beer.about.com gig I was really a bit surprised. I expected that another more qualified writer would land it. But I got it and I couldn’t have been happier. I had to work really hard to earn and keep the position and consequently my homebrewing exploits fell to the wayside.

Fast forward two years to now and I’m finally getting back into homebrewing. When I decided to start brewing again around a month ago I began cleaning the dusty heap of homebrew equipment that had sat neglected for two years. Among all of that I discovered a carboy full of mead. It didn’t have a cap or plug of any sort; it was just sitting there open to the world - or really the nasty air of my basement.

But I smelled it then, after it smelled OK, I tasted it and it seemed to be in good shape.

I have no memory of this mead - when I put it down or why it didn’t have a plug and airlock. But there it was. So as I brewed my stout I also tended to this mead. I transferred it twice to a clean carboy so to clean it a bit and I think it’s going to be really quite good.

I bottled it yesterday; even added some priming sugar in the hope that it will have some yeast left and will carbonate like any other homebrewed beer. I’ll report back when it’s aged a bit.

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