Hello,
Welcome to the Wonderful World of mead. If ever Patience was a Virtue it is with mead.
I have 2 Pieces of advice for you...
1) if you have reasonable spare wealth, make two batches.
Make 1 batch a cyser so you have something to drink when you lose patience with not drinking the other batch
2) Mead Should be 1 year old before consumpion begins in the opinion of most people. (Cyser is better at one year, but very good early)
3) ok had more than two, the following recipe's and links are second hand... i haven't made Cinnamon Mead.
From my Archives I have
Atomic Fire Ball Mead by Red Sonja....
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http://home.ggn.net/~redsonja/mead26.html
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http://www.katzengard.org/brewing/mead26.html
Phils Dragons Blood, (he posts here as Dogglebe (sp?) and may comment) I'll be making a Varient of this Batch if I can get the cherries.
> Ahhhh, my little red valkyrie, while your atomic fireball mead is
> indeed a wonderful treat, it pales in comparison to my Dragon's Blood
> (which I'll be bottling this weekend).
>
> DRAGON's BLOOD
>
> Simmer in 1.5 gallons of water for 30 minutes:
> 15# orange blossom honey
> .5 ounce cinnamon
> 2 tablespoons nutrients
> 1 tspn citric acid.
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> top off to five gallons and pitch pasteur dry champagne yeast.
>
> two weeks later, simmer 5# orange blossom honey and 11.5 pounds of
> bing cherries in .5 gallon water. Add to secondary fermenter and rack
> 5 gallon batch. Add pectic acid.
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> Rack as needed.
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> Started gravity: 1.148
> Finishing gravity: 1.024
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> Yummy!
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>
> Phil
Edit: Corrected address for Red Sonja's atomic Fireball mead