Anyone else brewing Monday and putting it away until 2020?

I'm probably going to do a Bochet style Mead with stepped additions of honey to try to get the ABV as high as I can.

Tentative recipe will be based on this, with a change to starting with 2.5# per gallon.  The starting honey I want to caramelize for a bit (Bochet style), and then step add using some wildflower honey.

Once primary is complete and it wont take any more honey, I plan to rack onto some toasted oak, age for a bit, then rack again and wait until next leap year to taste it!

Only issue I ran into, I decided on this style too late to order the WLP099, so I plan to start with Champagne yeast, and depending on how far that yeast is able to take it, I will pitch some WLP099 later.

Anyone see issues with this recipe?