4 Aug
2003
4 Aug
'03
12:03 p.m.
The MhBA's celebration of National Mead Day was a smashing (interpret that
as you will...) success! Thanks to Chris and Allie Hadden for hosting at
their new home over in St. Paul! There was a list of the meads we drank,
as I recall, though my memory is somewhat hazy, that may or may not get
posted at some point, but we tasted something like 35 different commercial
and home-brewed meads, and about 30 gallons of new mead was brewed by 5
different brewers. Marc Donnelly has the photographic evidence - we're
looking forward to seeing those pics Marc!
Thanks also to everyone who participated, and especially to everyone who
brought meads. It was a great time!
- Al
4 Aug
4 Aug
1:32 p.m.
New subject: 2003 National Mead Day in St. Paul, MN
National Mead Day was celebrated with vim and vigor in St. Paul, MN this past Saturday as
some 23 people gathered to sample 37 meads. Commercial meads included the likes of
Xtabentum (Licor de Anis y Miel de Abejas), Brother Adam's Bragget Ale, Lindisfarne
and Moniack (Dark) - to name just a few. The most striking aspect was the quality of the
home made meads. Thanks to everyone who participated and a special thanks to those who
brought libations and food.
Equally aMAZEing is that five mead makers made six batches of mead: two batches of the
official mead day recipe, cherry melomel, and batches of cranberry blossom, raspberry
ginger, wildflower, and mint blossom. In all, 32 gallons of mead were made. Mead making
technique ran the gamut from pasteurization to the use of sulfites to no sanitation of
ingredients. Some 1.6 trillion yeasts "pitched in" to make it happen.
Here's the list of meads we sampled:
1. Xtabentun (commercial) - Piatz
2. Maple - Cotton
3. Cranberry Melomel - Piatz
4. Maple - Hadden
5. Ginger Metheglin - Dienhart
6. Oak Mead - Cotton
7. Lindisfarne (commercial) - Glewwe
8. Cherry Melomel - Cotton
9. Mountain Meadows Meadery Cranberry Melomel - Boyce
10. Jhelbare Traditional - Hadden
11. Strawberry/Kiwi Melomel - Cotton
12. Orange Blossom Strawberry - Piatz
13. Wild Plum - Moranz
14. Raspberry Ginger Melomel - Hadden
15. Moniack Dark (commercial) - Glewwe
16. Spiced, Multi-fruit Cyser - Moranz
17. Minnesota Wild Plum Honeywine - Longballa
18. Collinwood Torrential Braggot - Boyce
19. Brother Adam's Bragget Ale (commercial) - Boyce
20. Redstone Plumb Honeywine (commercial) - Hadden
21. Winehaven Medium-Dry Honeywine - Donnelly
22. Bunratty Meade (commercial) - Boyce
23. Mango Melomel - Boyce
24. Sunflower Blossom - Piatz
25. Apricot Melomel - Boyce
26. White Winter Black Mead - Moranz
27. Smokehouse Winery Cassis Melomel - Hadden
28. Orange Blossom (3 year) - Boyce
29. Orange Blossom #1 - Piatz
30. Orange Blossom #2 - Piatz
31. Tupelo Varietal - Boyce
32. Basswood Mead - Boyce
33. Mesquite Mead - Boyce
34. Cyser - Dienhart
35. Rocky Mountain Meadery Blackberries n' Honey - Longballa
36. Oak Mead - Boyce
37. Pyment - Piatz
Someone brought cheesecake from Muddy Paws Cheesecake Co. Whoever brought it - THANK YOU!
Someone forgot their Camra Merchandise Price List. Please contact me so I can get it back
to you.
Thanks again for stopping by and helping to make mead day a success!
Chris
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