Pale Ale? And Mead2
Whoops, we missed a few weeks. Consider this a stub until one of us gets a chance to put up a full writeup (Hopefully before we forgot the details!)
I believe this week was a Pale Ale. Standard Northern Brewer kit nothing too fancy. Someone correct me if I’m wrong please!
The twist was we also did our yearly (hopefully soon to be quarterly!) mead this week. The Colorado River honey Matt found was outstanding, as was the citrus honey. But we still had to add 5 additional lbs of unfiltered tucson desert honey to make up the must. It was tasting great even before fermentation! Oh and last years mead…..we tried two bottles - one sparkling one clear.
The clear mead was good, much better than a month or two ago when we last sampled it. But the sparkling was clearly the favorite with almost everyone. It’s not very carbonated - either there wasn’t enough priming sugar added or the yeast is just completely exhausted. But the extra sweetness of the unfermented priming sugar and the slight touch of carbonation made it very tasty indeed!