Lyle's Online Log

This page contains links to my mead making logs. These logs generally contain the
recipe and the entire procedure I followed in creating the batch of mead.

Type	Size	Start	Bottled	Num
Cinnamon / Vanilla Cyser	3 Gal	6/5/2004	8/14/2004	1
Peach Mint Melomel	3 Gal	7/14/2004	1/9/2005	5
Blackberry Peach Melomel	1 Gal	7/14/2004	12/19/2004	4
Ice Pyment	3 Gal	8/25/2004	TBD	6
Orange, Cinnamon, & Clove Mead	3 Gal	9/14/2004	11/20/2004	2
Hard Honey Cider	3 Gal	11/4/2004	12/18/2004	3
My Second Cyser	3 Gal	11/25/2004	6/15/2005	7
Chocolate Mead	3 Gal	12/25/2004	TBD

I've decided that the labels I can get are WAY too hard to clean off of the bottles, so I've started
printing small circular labels that can be affixed to the bottle cap. This is the number
I've placed on the bottles.

Future Plans
not necessarily in order

I still want to make a straight mead.
I definitely have to make more blackberry melomel.

One other thing I'm planning. This fall, I plan to plant some fruit bushes and/or trees around my house. I'm currently leaning towards a thornless variety of blackberry, but thats not set in stone yet. The basic plan is to grow my own fruit for melomels. I have one location where I could plant a small tree, another location on the north side of the house that gets full afternoon sunlight, and a location by the back fence that is in shade most of the time. I'm going to do some investigation to see what would grow best in these conditions and get something planted. After all, why buy fruit / berries when I can grow my own!