pdilley
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DK,
JAO is a young drinking mead and as you notice with hops over time in beers diminishing in aroma and flavour, the same with spices as with JAO. While aging helps with any fast fermented or very young mead mellow out any hot fusel alcohol, the spices will taper off and mellow as well. The balance of JAO spices will peak at or around the six month mark and slowly taper off from there.
So your choice of bottling will be influenced by this and by how much you want in a single bottle. At four times beer strength you won't be wanting to drink a whole 750ml in one session nor would you with a spiced mead like this which is more easily taken in moderation. There are no hops so your choice in bottle is wide open in colours, shapes, seals. If giving JAO as gifts then you can fancy it up in a nice wine bottles with labels but for own use beer bottles are fine. Because you will open and close a container often if only having small amounts then you might want to go with twist tops, grolsch or even PET would be an option as it's not a long aged mead. I use twist top bottles when walking around letting lots of people sample JAO in larger groups.
Cheers,
Brewer Pete
JAO is a young drinking mead and as you notice with hops over time in beers diminishing in aroma and flavour, the same with spices as with JAO. While aging helps with any fast fermented or very young mead mellow out any hot fusel alcohol, the spices will taper off and mellow as well. The balance of JAO spices will peak at or around the six month mark and slowly taper off from there.
So your choice of bottling will be influenced by this and by how much you want in a single bottle. At four times beer strength you won't be wanting to drink a whole 750ml in one session nor would you with a spiced mead like this which is more easily taken in moderation. There are no hops so your choice in bottle is wide open in colours, shapes, seals. If giving JAO as gifts then you can fancy it up in a nice wine bottles with labels but for own use beer bottles are fine. Because you will open and close a container often if only having small amounts then you might want to go with twist tops, grolsch or even PET would be an option as it's not a long aged mead. I use twist top bottles when walking around letting lots of people sample JAO in larger groups.
Cheers,
Brewer Pete