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Mead-Brewing Seminar in the Works

As Creative Director of TempleCon, the retro-futurist science fiction and gaming convention that I co-founded ten years ago, I am currently in the thick of pre-convention planning for TempleCon 2015. One of the popular features of TempleCon is a tradition of hosting seminars related to the appreciation of (and in some cases brewing or cooking with) various kinds of alcohol, scotch in particular being the drink that started it all. Led by three-time...

The Perfect Goth Refrigerator

April 23, 2014
Madame Ximon
Brewing

…filled with bottles of my last batch of mead, prior to labeling. Yes, the bottles are red. 🙂 This mead batch is a black morat rhodomel, meaning that it is made with black currant juice, mulberry juice, and roses. Like all of my meads it is a metheglin, meaning that it is made with herbs (in addition to the roses), and was brewed with magical intent as part of a 15-month cycle, with the steps in its process corresponding to lunar cycles and...