Diamondeye wrote:
Where can one obtain this?
This particular mead was given to me, along with three of it's brothers, as a Christmas gift last year. Tonight's bottle was the second I've opened. It's extra-ordinarily good mead.
As to mead in general? Check your local liquor store with the best wine selection, and ask them where they keep their mead. Most won't have many, so you'll be able to find their best after only a small amount of sampling. I would also suggest attending several wine tastings, and asking the distributors about any meads they might supply. In my experience, they are more than happy to work with you to find one you'll like.
The spicing I used is listed above, but I'll expand. In this batch I used a very small amount oven roasted cinnamon, three times that amount of roasted clove, and 10 times the amount of dried orange rind and bound them up in a fine fabric netting and set it into a sauce pan containing a full bottle of mead. I simmered this over slow and low heat for about 20 minutes without bringing the mead to a boil, to allow the mead to steep like tea, and then I poured it for my honey and I.
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19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:19-20