Ah, NOVEMBER! Another month with lots of birthdays lined up with the moon. This time it was Becky and Regina, circling the new moon on the 4th. Both of these women are important mentor figures for me, so mead was definitely in the making! Named after Scathach, of Irish mythology – the Shadowy One, Teacher of Warriors, She who strikes fear! But since I could not get my tongue around the pronunciation of Scathach, she got nicknamed Stryker. This was just a little batch, again with the cranberries, this time fermented with Brazilian Angico honey, and we are sad about that – because it was so very good that it all went away VERY FAST!

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