Started: September 17, 2025
Bottled:
Concord grapes from my vines and Talisman Farm buffalo berries make a pyment melomel. The buffalo berry plant is a large bush, native to Colorado. It is a relative of Russian olive and has thorns. The berries are small, red, tart and tanic. They were harvested with a berry picker.
Brewed: May 24, 2025
Bottled: December 1, 2025
A pomegranate melomel using POM Wonderful juice. This was started in a 3 gallon carboy.
Brewed: December 28, 2024
Bottled: May 18, 2025
This raspberry melomel was meant to be a 3 gallon batch to remember Jasper, a wonderful Burmese cat, who had to be euthanized 27 June 2024 at age 13. But when Hale Landis died suddenly on 25 September, and with more TF raspberries available, we decided to step it up to 5 gal.
Brewed: December 11, 2023
Bottled: May 21, 2024
This is an attempt at reproducing Aluneloops, a U2M mead from 2011. Start with a traditional mead and add Hazelnut extract before bottling.
Brewed: February 14, 2023
Bottled: August 26, 2023
A ginger methyglyn with a touch of lime. This is similar to Zingiberli with more ginger and lime. The name comes from the cocktail sometimes called a Moscow Mule; vodka, ginger beer, and lime.
Brewed: January 22, 2023
Bottled: August 31, 2023
A Damson plum melomel, with some sloe plum. Both grown on the farm.
Brewed: November 23, 2022
Bottled: June 22, 2023
This is Dick's third Fruit Salad melomel. This version has peaches, rhubarb, raspberries, chokecherry, and pomegranate.
Brewed: November 14, 2022
Bottled: April 5, 2023
This is a copy of Cherry Squared, with different honey. Melomel.
Brewed: October 22, 2022
Bottled: January 31, 2023
Grapes from my backyard and clover honey make a pyment/melomel.
Brewed: February 5, 2022
Bottled: September 17, 2022
Using up some old, slightly caramelized, darkened honey to make a Bochet. We wanted this mead to be still, but it had other ideas. Keep cool, but not refrigerated. Decant carefully as the foam builds in the decanter. Allow a few minutes to settle before drinking.
Brewed: October 31, 2021
Bottled: March 29, 2022
A cyser made with freshly pressed Talisman Farm apples.
Brewed: September 11, 2021
Bottled: June 9, 2022
Local honey from a bee-keeping neighbor. This is a traditional mead, meant to bring out the flora qualities in the honey. It is very tasty.
Brewed: October 17, 2020
Bottled: August 14, 2021
The day we made this strawberry melomel, with rhubarb and apricots, was the day the CalWood fire started above Jamestown. It rather exploded due to very dry and windy conditions, eventually starting various other small fires along/near the west side of US 36 north of Boulder. Dick, Marcia, and I watched thick smoke plumes as we brewed. The farm was under an evacuation order from 15:40 to 20:40, but we were in the north-east corner of the evacuation zone, well away from any fires, and didn't leave.
Brewed: August 11, 2020
Bottled: May 15, 2021
Originally called Cloudname. After the first racking we decided that it most resembled some type of stratus cloud and was later renamed Altostratus. It a methyglyn with Angelica root and a bit of ginger root. This a 3 gallon experimental mead, by me and Dick, using Talisman farm angelica root.
Brewed: May 15, 2020
Bottled: September 24, 2020
Brewed a pomegranate melomel with Dick and Marcia at TF.
Brewed: February 21, 2020
Bottled: June 3, 2020
Brewed a cherry melomel with Dick and Marcia at TF.
Brewed: November 21, 2019
Bottled: February 12, 2020.
Brewed a ginger methyglyn with Dick Dunn at Talisman Farm.
Brewed: October 27, 2019
Bottled: December 12, 2019.
A currant melomel using red, white, and black currants. This was a collaborative effort by me and Dick Dunn (Talisman Farm), brewed at the farm, with currants grown at the farm.
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