Feb 14, 2009

Brew Batch #29 The Bees' Knees Mead©

Update, racked it out of the primary glass carboy while still fermenting to get it off of the yeast bed and cinnamon sticks and it smelled BEEautiful. It was so light that it was hard to start the siphon for racking. As of now the gravity sits at 1.010 @64F to yield about 16%abv!!! WTF! No wonder muslims can only drink this! In the usual customary tradition (carried on by much better brewers than I) I tried a shot of it and the flavor was simple yet complex. The aroma of slight sweet clover honey is still there with a hint of cinnamon. The taste is full and light in the mouth with a champagne feel (due to the yeast strain, I'm sure, Lavlin EC-1118, aka Prise de mousse, Saccharomyces bayanus). The finish is extremely tart with lingering cinnamon. I'm sure this will mellow with aging. Oh and the alcohol is there too.