Spiced Mead

A Winter Solstice mead series is one of the most satisfying annual brewing projects — a set of meads you make each year around the longest night, aged and opened at the following solstice or shared at winter gatherings.

Aging time for spiced mead is one of the questions I get most often, and the honest answer is that it depends on the specific spices, the mead’s gravity, and what you’re trying to achieve.