NMmoose

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I have heard two opinions on this, should honey be heated to a boil or not.
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Bhunter87

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Don't boil please... If you heat... Don't get over 160

dawgmatic

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The flavors and aroma are very easily cooked off. Boil the water first, then add the honey as its cooling off. The water should be plenty hot to sanitize the honey

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GinKings

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Boiling was popular years ago. You usually see it in older recipes. Some people heat to 160ish. More and more people don't heat at all, myself included.

lawpaw

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No hotter than 100 degrees for me. Room temp mostly now.

mikebux

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First timer chiming in here.... Ordered a sweet mead kit from northern brewer supplies online... Five gallon batch.... Boiled nothing , as. The recipie instructs... Been in primary for 9 days now, fermenting right along with schedule.... So far so good... My advice would be as a noob, get a quality kit and follow the instructions to a T, and you should be just fine... Also, as recomended by this site, pick up ken schrams book, the complete mead maker.... And read read read,,, have fun.....

liquiditynerd

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Yup, at most I put a jar of honey in a sink of warm water ( like malt extract) to help the flow but that's it, no heat, no harm

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....just add water.....

fatbloke

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Yeah! I used to do that as well. Now I just use a sanitised food processor, pour or scoop out the honey, add water and blitz the hell out of it. Jars can just be rinsed/shaken with some of the brew water.....

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kc_in_wv

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You are boiling to sterilize the water not the honey. Bacterial cannot grow in honey that has not been reduced by water addition.

Honey is actually an antibacterial agent.

Several years ago I watched a report on the use of honey as an antibacterial agent for burn patients. They found that severe burns treated with honey healed just a little slower than the same type of burns treated with the most up to date antibiodics.

The warm water will make it easier to dissolve the honey in the water.

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NMmoose

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Thanks for you help all