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[Wayne B]

BD, you're back! Long time, no hear from!!Are you making anything worth swapping these days??Wayne B.

[The Brew Dude]

BD, you're back! Long time, no hear from!!Are you making anything worth swapping these days??Wayne B.

Things have been crazy. Good that they are calming down a bit. :wub:I have my 2008 pyments (Sonoma Pinot Noir w/OB Honey, and Columbia Valley Riesling w/Raspberry Honey) that are drinkable, as well as my last batch of Apple Butter Cyser that I'm going to freeze concentrate into a "liqueur". My next batches include an Orange Blossom show mead (long overdue) and my next round of pyments, a New Zealand Merlot and an Italian Dolcetto.I've been doing one-gallon experiments for a while using different yeasts and different honeys, so those batches are limited. I have given up on my dark braggot for now (need more time to brood over it) but might pick that one up again this summer.How about you?

[Wayne B]

Things have been crazy. Good that they are calming down a bit. :smilielol:I have my 2008 pyments (Sonoma Pinot Noir w/OB Honey, and Columbia Valley Riesling w/Raspberry Honey) that are drinkable, as well as my last batch of Apple Butter Cyser that I'm going to freeze concentrate into a "liqueur". My next batches include an Orange Blossom show mead (long overdue) and my next round of pyments, a New Zealand Merlot and an Italian Dolcetto.I've been doing one-gallon experiments for a while using different yeasts and different honeys, so those batches are limited. I have given up on my dark braggot for now (need more time to brood over it) but might pick that one up again this summer.How about you?

I've got my neolithic Chinese clone bottled and aged to about where it's ready to drink, plus a cranberry-juniper-ginger concoction, plus the "Occult Noir" dry multi-fruit melomel (black currants, blueberries, and a few blackberries and raspberries thrown in for added complexity), all bottled within the past several months. I still have 10 gallons of dessert-sweet orange blossom traditional, a dry orange blossom and citrus (mostly tangerine) melomel, and a variation of my Christmas Spice where the base was cherry cider instead of apple, another dark red melomel that is mostly black currant and elderberry, plus that ABC group we did a couple of years back with Hightest, all awaiting bottling when I get around to it. I want to do some more interesting blended fruit mels along with a raspberry blossom traditional before the end of the summer, along with my take on the now-in-progress blueberry braggot group brew. So, I've got stuff to sample.BTW, you've given me an idea about what I can do to make that ABC more drinkable! Gracias, amigo!!Hey, with all the Front Range meadmakers out there, maybe we should try to pull together another mead tasting event sometime this summer. Whaddaya think?OH, and stragebrewer or Glacies or any of the other mods out there -- we've gone from a simple hijack to a separate discussion, so feel free to split off this discussion into a separate thread. I don't think that I can do it myself, or I would have done it already!

Edited by Wayne B, 02 June 2009 - 01:42 PM.

[strangebrewer]

OH, and stragebrewer or Glacies or any of the other mods out there -- we've gone from a simple hijack to a separate discussion, so feel free to split off this discussion into a separate thread. I don't think that I can do it myself, or I would have done it already!

Done

[Wayne B]

GRACIAS!! :smilielol:So... any of you Front Range meadmakers out there who want to get together either up at my place in Evergreen or at another location of your choosing for a mead-swap & taste party? (If it is at my place, it will be with the requisite grill fired up to do some burgers and brats and whatever else catches your fancy.) Let me know via a post to this thread. I'm thinking either the second or third week in August, when it's way too hot down in Denver and where a quick escape to 7500 ft would be welcome.... Anyone interested?

Edited by Wayne B, 02 June 2009 - 03:02 PM.

[The Brew Dude]

Definitely.BTW, The Brew Hut is moving next door to its new digs on the 14th. They're having a moving party. I'm planning on being there.

[Wayne B]

BD, I'll try to get out there on the 14th, since I want to see their new digs, too! And Guest and everyone else local to Denver, how about tentatively shooting for the 16th of August (Sunday) for the meadparty at my place, with a backup of the 23rd if for some reason the 16th won't work for everyone?Anyone interested in bringing over some mead to share in August, post your preferences for Aug 16 or 23, please.Anyway, due to continuing family commitments thru the summer, I can't do Saturdays, so it will have to be a Sunday. I like to shoot for an early afternoon start on these things (around 1PM or so) and to throttle back the pouring around 5PM, to allow time for everyone to get sober enough to find their way down the hill before dark on the same day!

[strangebrewer]

BD, I'll try to get out there on the 14th, since I want to see their new digs, too! And Guest and everyone else local to Denver, how about tentatively shooting for the 16th of August (Sunday) for the meadparty at my place, with a backup of the 23rd if for some reason the 16th won't work for everyone?Anyone interested in bringing over some mead to share in August, post your preferences for Aug 16 or 23, please.Anyway, due to continuing family commitments thru the summer, I can't do Saturdays, so it will have to be a Sunday. I like to shoot for an early afternoon start on these things (around 1PM or so) and to throttle back the pouring around 5PM, to allow time for everyone to get sober enough to find their way down the hill before dark on the same day!

Either days work for me as of now but that is REALLY far out for me to be able to plan! Of course by August I'll be willing to go just about anywhere to get out of the frontrange heat. It's only June and already I miss the winter

[The Brew Dude]

Where are they moving to? I saw the party sign-up sheet a week ago, but didn't notice any detail... I hope they aren't moving far, as they are quite close to me already.

They are moving right next door to where the auto parts store used to be.

[Wayne B]

Well, then - someone down the hill will have to host. But I'm always up for bringing a few bottles out to a tasting!

[strangebrewer]

My mead/cyser/melomel/braggot inventory is actually half decent at the moment. I'd be up for a gathering so long as it's sometime after the holidays. If there is major concern about weather then I could be willing to host as well. Not like we couldn't change the location with 24 hour notice if Wayne gets buried under 20' of snow. Of course if that happens I'll be out skiing

[Wayne B]

I'm good for a time after the holidays as well. Early Feb is probably best, based on our schedule (and no worries except weather about having us host it - but then you all will have to drive/ride/crawl back down the hill you know!), and based on the fact that I'll be getting busy with a lot of Mazer Cup stuff starting about a month before the event.