Breakfast with Epiphany

First FGS Bottle of 2026

15%

Mead Details:

This maple wine was made using local Maple syrup from H&H Sugarbush out of Chelsea, Michigan. We add a tiny bit of local Dexter Wildflower honey to bump up the ABV and add a nice honey element. After fermentation, we added this to a fresh dumped Detroit City Distillery Bourbon barrel that previously held a peach Brandy. After sitting in the barrel for 18 months, we pulled out enough to blend with our blueberry and raspberry batches to create a fruity maple blend. However, we didn’t stop there. While it was delicious already, we decided to take it one step further by adding some marshmallow fluff. Imagine pancakes with berries & maple syrup, and whipped cream, that was our inspiration. 

The yeast used was EC1118 and K1V. 

This mead was made with a blend of different meads aging from 25 months to 12 months old. 

Karl’s Tasting Notes:

Breakfast with Epiphany

Up next for our Final Gravity Members is the amusingly named Breakfast with Epiphany! Many of the details regarding this mead are a mystery to me! So, an exciting near-blind taste test is underway! The second of the four 2026 members’ bottles, I have high hopes! Let’s begin

As always, let’s smell that profile! My first impression regards a very diligent blueberry fruit note, blended with sweeter undertones… Further analysis reveals a blend of sweet and tannic backend notes that must be maple and a barrel. I was informed of the marshmallow and, whilst subtle, I can BARELY get notes of it buried under it all. It’s a very well-blended bouquet; mostly that fruit, but I could dissect the other notes all day. Fascinating!

First taste? Now that was a ride! Started with a sharp, tart, and tannic blueberry that flowed into more of the honey and maple, and then furthermore changed a THIRD time with the marshmallow sweet at the end. Wow! It’s a delicious mead with a waltzing profile of intermingling flavors that is actually quite something! I can get sweet notes, tannic notes, tart, and even bitter at times! Yet, never am I put off or upset by this organized chaos of a dance in my mouth! Yeah. That’ll do for number two.