I have conquered quarantine level: make your own alcohol. My home-brew mead turned out fantastic; way tastier than the cough-syrup served at commercial renaissance fairs. For months of backstory, you can read all these posts: A Mead-Making Journey Home-Brew Mead Round 2 Even More Mead! With Maple! Otherwise, we’re going to jump… Read More »Home-brew Mead Recipe and Results
The mead is bubbling away in its kitchen hideout. I’m mostly in the mead-making phase of ‘don’t touch it for a long time,’ but before I got there, I started one last batch (for now) of maple-syrup mead! This concoction will hopefully be extra sweet. My other three batches I… Read More »Even More Mead! With Maple!
Mead-making round 2 is going great. My first batch has been “racked” over to a new jar for further fermenting and I’ve assembled two more half-gallon ferments. This time, we’re making a second batch of blueberry mead, but with cranberries for tannin instead of lime pith, and a mint, cranberry,… Read More »Home-Brew Mead Round 2
Who needs another hobby? Not me. But here we are. I’m micro-brewing mead. Blueberry mead, to be specific. You can make mead at home with just water (distilled), honey, and yeast (which naturally occurs in raw honey). It’s one of the oldest alcohols invented, and apparently, hopefully, it’s very difficult to mess… Read More »A Mead-Making Journey
This was an especially fun year at the Vermont Winter Renaissance Fair, perhaps because we spent more money than usual…. First, they lure you in with free samples of everything: mead, jam, syrup, vodka, rum… Once you’ve been sufficiently liquored for free, which is basically the best part of this… Read More »Vermont Winter Renaissance Fair 2020
On Labor Day 2019, the whole family (that means the dog too), attended the Connecticut Renaissance Fair in Lebanon, CT. This is one of the only fairs in the region that allows pets any day of the fair, however opening weekend was pet-themed. Tovi put on her only costume to… Read More »Connecticut Renaissance Faire 2019: Tovi’s First Ren Fair!
Last weekend we had a beautiful day at the Faire! Mutton and Mead is an annual celebration in Western Massachusetts with a casual and merry mood. It is one of the few proper “Medieval Festivals” in the area, similar too, but not to be confused with, a Renaissance fair. Essentially… Read More »Mutton & Mead Medieval Festival 2019