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How to stop the ferment of mead

How to sweeten mead

Should you make 1 gallon of mead or 5 gallons?

Mead Making and Alcohol Content

Some information about Yeast

The Secret Art of Mead Making Revealed

New: 5 Tips for the beginner mead maker

It's all about the Honey - A dramatic look at how important honey is in mead making

For Beginners: How to make your first and easy 1 gallon batch of Mead honey wine

How to make a sparkling champagne style mead

How much does it cost to make a batch of mead? I have the cost breakdown here

How to make a batch of mead today! The fast, easy, and cheap way to your first batch of honey wine

The difference is the honey! A stop motion animation showing two different honeys side by side and how the fermented brew looks

Thinking about designing or buying your wine and mead bottle labels? Here is some information about labels and bottles that will help you

The Magical Transformation of water into wine with pics

How and why to use a hydrometer

How to use a wine thief to test your wine or mead

Dispelling the Myths about Mead

Thoughts about Mead and Wine Making

Important note about Sanitizing your Mead making and wine making equipment

Learning the art of Patience when making wine or mead

How do you know the ferment is working?

Discovering Mead

Mead by any other name

Checking the PH of your Mead to insure good fermentation (video)

Making Flavored Meads

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A Rare and Spectacular Bottle of Mead

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Wow, I got an email from somebody who came across a 38 year old bottle of mead. I am astonished and excited about this. I asked him to fill me in on the details and to send me some pictures and he has!! If you are a mead fan you have got to check this out. This is a signed and numbered bottle of mead!

If you know anything about this mead, the meadery or can offer any insight into this bottle It would be greatly appreciated. You can send me an email. I, and the owner of the bottle are also interested in knowing whether or not it is of any value to collectors. You can see by the picture that this is a special mead and it has a beautiful aged color.

Here is what the Bottle label says: ( I can't quite read it all so there are some spaces)

This special reserve mead will probably never be repeated as it was produced from the fermentation of 100% pure honey. Holy Island Water and herbs.Mead fermentation was allowed to continue for 2 years producing a natural strength of 24.2 % proof spirit. The mead was laid down in casks in 1970 and remained therein until bottle in 1976. . be the finest naturally produced apertif in existence. Because of the rarity value of this product ...because of the rarity value of this products .. only produced each bottle is individually numbered and bears the signature of the maker. - The Lindisfarne Liqueur Company Holy Island Northumberland

If you can shed any light on this spectacular bottle of mead it would be appreciated.

A Close up of the Mead Label (signed and numbered)

UPDATE: Lindisfarne Mead is available through a distributor in the United States that sells online to most states (Around 40) So if you want to get a new bottle of this mead it might be available to you. Check out their online shop here

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