Any Halloween Mead being served tomorrow?
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My Meados de los Muertos is pretty tasty, so I'm probably going to make it into a holiday special release. I guess that depends on how it's received at the tasting I'm hosting for some friends though. Spicy Mayan chocolate isn't everyone's cup of tea...er...mead. 
No mead for me tonight, too soon after Friday's surgery. I do have one beer bottle of last year's pumpkin mead, though...wonder how it tastes a year later?
I was going to make a batch with pumpkin this year, and I saved the pumpkin that I scooped out our Jack-O-Lantern. I had about 6 pound, but Little Wifey commandeered it for a soup recipe. Drats! Foiled again.... 
I was going to make a batch with pumpkin this year, and I saved the pumpkin that I scooped out our Jack-O-Lantern. I had about 6 pound, but Little Wifey commandeered it for a soup recipe. Drats! Foiled again....
How were you going to prepare the pumpkin innards? I assume roasting, but I haven't made a pumpkin batch yet...it's high on my to-do list so that I can have some ready to bring to a Halloween party next year with a pumpkin as the "keg".
Not sure about using the pumpkin as the keg (I've seen it done with watermelon & rum and the spigot got clogged almost immediately), but when I prep my pumpkins for winemaking or soup or pie, I just strain the seeds out by hand and leave most of the gook where it is, it's got just as much if not more flavour.
I guess you 'Mericans still have Thanksgiving coming up, but up here, right now is the best time to get pumpkins - the farmers practically give them away after Hallowe'en.
We're picking up a trailerload tomorrow for my swordhandling group's annual Pumpkin Cutting on Saturday, but I'm going to try to smurf a couple good ones for myself before we hack them all to bits with swords, axes and sledgehammers...
I guess you 'Mericans still have Thanksgiving coming up, but up here, right now is the best time to get pumpkins - the farmers practically give them away after Hallowe'en.
We're picking up a trailerload tomorrow for my swordhandling group's annual Pumpkin Cutting on Saturday, but I'm going to try to smurf a couple good ones for myself before we hack them all to bits with swords, axes and sledgehammers...
