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Just let it sit in an out of the way, cool, dark spot until 2025. Then taste it and see what you think. Don't attempt to stabilize now, you want the remaining yeast to clean up after a tough fermentation. Mead takes time to mellow and come into its own. That's the case with a standard 12-13%...

Sometimes, "authentic" actually kind of means "what we imagine it might have been". There are sources where you can find actual ancient mead recipes. An episode of The Mead House podcast [featuring Susan Verberg] comes to mind. T-58. The flavors beer yeasts can produce in wort might not be...

Yikes, more like a two year supply. Just used the last of it.

1477.5 + 4.5 Special Bitter 1482

I've found myself to be a big fan of Breckenridge Brewery. Most recently their shandy hits the mark. Refreshingly bright and citrusy without the candy-like sweet of another shandy I can't spell.

Doug has shared with us his mash efficiency prediction spreadsheet. Very accurate. Link within... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/hi-again.729794/post-10313666

Be sure you're accounting for a drop in mash efficiency. It comes with the territory when bumping up significantly from your typical batch gravity. Your volume loss to grain absorption will stay the same on a /lb basis, but there will more lbs than your used to.

Some of my first mead made in late 2021. Basic BOMM. It was tolerable enough to drink most the batch then. Glad I have three more bottles. Age your mead, friends. Age your mead.

Traditional big beers like English barleywine, Belgian tripel, etc., often utilize sugars to help make a "digestible" product. Lactose is a 100% non-fermentable sugar. Used in dessert stouts. Sucrose, glucose, fructose are 100% fermentable. Table sugar, candi sugar, invert sugar, honey, etc.

You have to be careful with common names of flora and fauna. Europeans came over here and applied names on things that barely resembled things at home. For example, the Grand Tetons.

Look to your trees and shrubs. Birch, alder, something like that.

Professional stagehand here with a small quibble. Mic checks don't count past 2. Otherwise, the sound guy might have to lift something.

As long as it's milk-based and thickened.

"There is only one chowder." - Anthony Bourdain

"Holiday Heart Syndrome", atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia. Possible affects of alcohol on heart activity. It's a thing.