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What are you drinking tonight?

It’s good even if I do say so myself. It is sweet without being cloying, has some acid and some body. I usually like to let it sit in the bottle for a couple of months to let the flavors balance and maybe develop a bit of carbonation, but I’m impatient.
 
I've not made cider but I have made ginger beer, beer, wine and mead. Never could get the mead to turn out good but the others have mostly all turned out great. It's a lot of fun
 
uacowboy said:
I've not made cider but I have made ginger beer, beer, wine and mead. Never could get the mead to turn out good but the others have mostly all turned out great. It's a lot of fun
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It is fun. This one is technically a mead (a cyser) because I use honey as the main adjunct. I also use brown sugar and raisins so mead purists might balk at my calling it a mead, but I’m flexible.
 
Lbkindy said:
It is fun. This one is technically a mead (a cyser) because I use honey as the main adjunct. I also use brown sugar and raisins so mead purists might balk at my calling it a mead, but I’m flexible.
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Mead is my favorite..... and Mead recipes have become flexible in recent years. Experimenting is always good.
 
On recommendation...really liked it...never thought I would ever describe a wine as rich. Price point is nice at $12 a bottle.

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Haven’t been posting here as I should. We had a nice red blend with wine and cheese night last weekend. While shopping for the cheeses I looked around the local wine section of the supermarket. They had a merlot from a winery and vineyard I know puts out some decent stuff. Figured I’d try it to see if it was a bargain for $10. Nope. I think most people don’t realize, many better wine producers make their good stuff that you can only find at their winery or restaurants. And then make a mass produced wine for distribution to grocery stores and such which is a world apart from all their other stuff. Such was the case here. Well, worth a shot. But I did want to say if you run across a wine in a grocery store that strikes your fancy, take a look at the website for the winery, or a wine shop and see if they have something you don’t see in the store. It might just blow you away.
 
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