NerdyMarie
Well-Known Member
I really, really don't want to go to Babys R Us to buy our friend a baby shower gift for this weekend. Sounds about as bad as a wedding show... but with hormones.
Anyway.
I was thinking it'd be cool to do up a card that says we'll put on a batch of mead, the day she gives birth, that she can expect to receive 2 cases of mead in a year, with the idea of using it to celebrate birthdays up til age 21, at which point, they can share with the kid, gift it to him/her, etc.
The hubby doesn't want to show up "basically giving her an IOU", but otherwise loves the idea.
Here's the thing... all of the meads we've made have been awesome within a year, but we haven't been doing this long enough to know how they are after a couple decades.
We tend to make sweet meads - am I right in assuming we'd need a dry, high alcohol mead to last that long?
Are fruits / herbs/etc ok in meads meant to age a very long time, or do they reduce their lifespan at all?
If we stabilize the mead before bottling, any reason that we shouldn't use the "zork" type corks that we tend to use for everything?
Any other considerations for doing this?
Anyway.
I was thinking it'd be cool to do up a card that says we'll put on a batch of mead, the day she gives birth, that she can expect to receive 2 cases of mead in a year, with the idea of using it to celebrate birthdays up til age 21, at which point, they can share with the kid, gift it to him/her, etc.
The hubby doesn't want to show up "basically giving her an IOU", but otherwise loves the idea.
Here's the thing... all of the meads we've made have been awesome within a year, but we haven't been doing this long enough to know how they are after a couple decades.
We tend to make sweet meads - am I right in assuming we'd need a dry, high alcohol mead to last that long?
Are fruits / herbs/etc ok in meads meant to age a very long time, or do they reduce their lifespan at all?
If we stabilize the mead before bottling, any reason that we shouldn't use the "zork" type corks that we tend to use for everything?
Any other considerations for doing this?