Calliope
(cacao bochet)
What
with big renovation and all, this stayed in the bucket far longer than
intended. Finally racked it and it's acidic as fuck, but there's more chocolate
taste to it than anything made with nibs has ever given me, so there's hope.
There's no headroom to add honey right now so I figure I'm letting it clear
more first.
Bronwyn (Coffee bochet)
Heavy
sweet coffee, drinkable but kind of on the oversweet side. Not quite sure yet
how to fix that. Oak extract?
Zaqar
Previously
backsweetened with ~450 gr thyme honey. Not a very distint flavour
unfortunately but otherwise drinkable. I could make this one fizzy?
Aella:
backsweetened
with 900 gr rosemary honey. Not as distinct a rosemary flavour as
all-rosemary-honey attempts have been, but pretty good, and drinkable.
Fennah II:
Just
acceptable plain mead right now. Gonna add fresh mint
Whaitiri
tea with ginger, lemongrass and Kawakawa.
Xanthe (pine tips)
This
one is tricky, I think the sweetness is right, there is pineyness, but man that
bitter slash isn't gone. I added some pine honey, even though that is
definitely not the same. I might be stuck adding honey and acidity until this
loses that note. I hope the nose doesn't disappear though.
Yaffe (lapsang souchon tea)
Smokey! Pretty nice? Good nose and front end, a bit meh on the back end. Thought a fresh note might help and added a tiny bit of
orange zest
Vercopa
10 liter blackberry mead
This is surprisingly light. I think it might be nice fizzy, but I don't know if I'll get enough fermentation kicked off to get it carbonated
