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[arethinn]

Honey wine (mead) with elder flowers??? Woo!

This is brought to you by my searching for "elderflower honey" after having found elderflower syrup at a local gourmet market while searching for orange flower water (which I eventually found, in the wines/spirits section, with the lime and grenadine syrup. Who'd-a thunk it).

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[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I've been thinking about doing that very thing - elderberry/flower meade (maybe mixed half with maple sprup)... Within the next month I was planning on picking up the brewing equipment for a 1-3 gallon batch. I can get both dried elderberries and flowers locally.

[arethinn]

*searches for jaws of iron trap you must surely have set somewhere in the wilds of Nova Scotia, that you are mentioning such a thing to me*

[heron61.livejournal.com]

After having some of the amazing maple wine you share with amberite & I when were were all visiting rialian and helen99, I have convinced Becca to make maple wine as her text project :)

[arethinn]

(*@&$(*@. I am never going to get any of the maple ambrosia silvaerina_tael had/has, am I? Damn your eyes! lol.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

If your significant other does indeed come down here this summer, I will provide him with a couple of bottles - one for each of you - that way yu can both have a glass (that's about all is in a bottle).

[arethinn]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any definite plans to be there within the month.. and that's when I'm going to be there, on the 11th of August, soo..

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I'm regretting that my experiment didn't work in the maple wine department.

Have plenty of traditional mead at least.

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

If I ever get a stable placee to live again, elderflowers were the next stage of experimentation for that black elderberry mead I'm working on.

(assuming what I've done so far isn't toxic.)

[arethinn]

Why would it be toxic?

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

The sap of elders is toxic. In some varieties of elder, even the berries are. The variety I used should have safe berries, but I want to make sure I properly removed all of the woody parts before anyone goes drinking it.

I have never heard of toxic elder flowers, oddly enough.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

I've made yew berry meads before, so I do understand the poison aspect. The pits have to be removed from the berries before adding to the meade - they are quite toxic. It also has... interesting effects...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Yum, I hope the wines Becca is making turns out to be as good as those sound (currently she has pear, cranberry, green tea, strawberry, rose, chocolate, and a few others brewing or aging). With luck, we'll bring some with us to Thresholds next year.

[arethinn]

Green tea wine? Or mead? (still sounds odd)

Chocolate? Surely you are trying to lure me to my doom in Oregon just as silvaerina_tael is in Nova Scotia.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

We'll have some ready for our poly-wedding in mid September, come to it and you'll get to see what she's been brewing (the pear, the cranberry, and maybe the green tea should all be ready by then).

[arethinn]

Might happen. Do you have a set date? I might be able to plan now...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Mid September, the weekend of the 10th or the 17th, likely the later. We will have decided on an exact date in no more than 2 weeks, and likely less.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Y'know, that gives me as idea that I should try for Yule - a Yule meade. Pear, cranberry, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and, if I can get any, yew berry... Should be interesting...

[arethinn]

Hmmm.. better put a warning label on that one!

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

*snicker* yeah, I know. It *is* a yule meade...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, that sounds incredibly good.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

If I manage to get the equpment together for both, I'll try to bring some with me to Thresholds - though they'll likely be rather green (unless I go with a few one gallon carboys - they "perk" quicker.).