Hi! Newbie to the board, so my apologies if this is miscategorized or anything.
I'm not a mead-maker. Rather, I enjoy mead a great deal. I had my first taste of mead at an Asatru gathering in Big Sur some years ago, and it was a homemade, spiced mead that had a thicker viscosity than anything I've seen since. It was, to put it simply, amazing.
Unfortunately, I've yet to find anything even remotely similar in the years that followed. I've tried nearly every common commercial mead out there and most aren't particularly good. In my opinion Chaucer's is the best of the commercial meads but it's ridiculously inconsistent. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not good. However, I'm tired of "settling" for mead that doesn't replicate that first experience. So, after some less-than-exhaustive research, I've come here to ask the experts: any recommendations on commercial meads that I may not have had an opportunity to try? Or is my best bet to find a homemade supply that will sate my palate?
Thanks for any help you might offer!
I'm not a mead-maker. Rather, I enjoy mead a great deal. I had my first taste of mead at an Asatru gathering in Big Sur some years ago, and it was a homemade, spiced mead that had a thicker viscosity than anything I've seen since. It was, to put it simply, amazing.
Unfortunately, I've yet to find anything even remotely similar in the years that followed. I've tried nearly every common commercial mead out there and most aren't particularly good. In my opinion Chaucer's is the best of the commercial meads but it's ridiculously inconsistent. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not good. However, I'm tired of "settling" for mead that doesn't replicate that first experience. So, after some less-than-exhaustive research, I've come here to ask the experts: any recommendations on commercial meads that I may not have had an opportunity to try? Or is my best bet to find a homemade supply that will sate my palate?
Thanks for any help you might offer!