The Viking Hedgehog Brewery!

Quite some time ago my husband began adventures into home brewing. The lovingly dubbed "Viking Hedgehog Brewery" was proud to offer 3 types of mead as Christmas presents to friends and family in 2010. I made the labels and artwork for the bottles in an appropriately hedgehogish style. Below you can see them as they bubbled away. Left to right: Strawberry, Sweet, and Peach, Pomegranate, Blueberry.

The great news was that the Sweet mead was fantastic! There were complications however with the Strawberry and it was less than tasty. The Pomegranate, Peach and Blueberry ended up just being a very odd mixture of flavors. If nothing else the labels were quite cute and punny.

"The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Hedge hog." Sweet mead.

 "Hedge hog Wash." Pomegranate, Peach, Blueberry mead.

 "Hedge hog Wild." Strawberry mead.

There have been no more meads made since, though I have bugged him to get some going. He has instead moved onto beer. Beer is a much faster make and he has had some very good luck with several styles so far. He began with a cheaters kit and has since weaned himself off his various premade helpers. He is now working on an all grain Irish Stout. It should taste something like a Guinness with a few difference that I'm told should help bring out more chocolate and caramel taste.

I will update soon with how it tastes! Below is a picture of the Red Ale being made. This one had really good things said about it from friends and family.