Question for My Brewing Friends Out There

[psyyche]

I just opened a bottle of (commercially made) mead this evening

Comments

[epim]

the vacu-vin thing should help extend the storage life, but it's so sugar rich that it has a pretty limited shelf life.

As your lawyer I advise that you consume it all immediately and post photos of the ensuing naked time on the internet.

[castorsd]

*evil grin*

[zymergist]

same as a white wine, yes the vac thing might help (O2 is the biggest problem), keep chilled, and finish the bottle!

[guinnessduck]

To be completely contrary to the other two posts, mead is some pretty durable stuff. I've got some meads that I've re-corked years ago that are still good.

All the same, chilled mead is still the best. And being a commercial mead, all bets are off as to the ingredients - it could end up being nothing more than white wine with honey added (Bunratty mead is exactly this). In that case, treat it like white wine. ^_^

[saintevermore]

If I may venture a guess, I believe the mead in question is Chaucer's. Is that better than Bunratty?