My friend, Cindy’s first visit to a Bee Yard. My glue trap didn’t work at all. Not a single beetle died in the trap – however about a dozen bees did. Well it was worth a try. If anyone has a great beetle trap idea, please leave a comment. I’ve got to beat these beetles…
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Taste Test Sept Pear Mead: 6 months later
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.” – John Waters On July 24th, Noah and I opened the second bottle of the Sweet Pear Mead. Still very disappointing.On opening the bottle, I still smelled the aroma of beer. It faded after it had breathed for 20 minutes.In the glass it smelled sweet…
Taste Test Sept Pear Mead
“The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.” – George Herbert. Hello All, This will be very short. On January 31, 2018, Noah and I tasted the September Pear Mead. It wasn’t ready yet and tasted terrible. It was very dry and smelled a little like beer – however, the acidic finish that I…
Roasted Honey Mead – AWESOME!
Christmas Day 2016, we tasted my first mead… and it was bad. So while I am an amateur (for now) I am determined to get it right. “The secrete to doing anything is believing that you can do it,” – Bob Ross. If you have followed any of my Mead blogs, then you know that…
Pear Mead: One Month Out
“In wine there is truth,” Pliny the Elder… and with a name like that, you have to believe him. I spent the weekend doing chores around the house. Of my many tasks, Sunday I bottled the Pear Mead I made on 9/24/2017. Mistake 1: While I was preparing to bottle, I kept thinking there are…
Mead Note: One month tastes
This is our new stray cat, BuffyShe looks like I feel. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough,” Albert EinsteinI posed a simple question on Facebook’s Mead Makers page. What should I expect a semi-sweet mead to taste like at the one month racking?Almost all the answers were the same: “You will get a…
Mead – Mastering the basics
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy,” Benjamin FranklinBees make honey but men make mead – the latter being the more remarkable. Mead is extraordinarily simple to make and fairly idiot proof as I myself have proven. I have taken to making my mead from the cooked honey…
Part 3 of 3 – Beetles, Chickens, and Mead
“I have never seen mead enjoyed more in any hall on earth.” Beowulf If you keep bees and have never tried mead then you have missed the point of beekeeping. Mead has as many variations as wine or beer but has it’s own unique identity. Since I live in Mississippi, the only mead that seems…
Honey Homestead 