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Old 09-21-2010, 03:12 AM   #11
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I've made great mead with the blended honey from Sam's Club, but usually its a melomel or strongly spiced metheglin, so I don't need 'great honey', just 'basic' honey.

I also don't compete.
Good to hear. My first mead is going now and I used clover honey from Sam's. The honey tasted great straight out the jug.


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Old 09-21-2010, 10:59 AM   #12
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I made two batches of strong, high ABV meads with kiawi honey. A heavy, smoked wood flavor. Even after ageing a over a year and half. I'm just hoping that time will improve and blend it nicely.
I have been lucky enough that people have given me great honey from Texas and also California and they made some very nice meads.
The show meads made from store bought honey - eehhh, it's OK, but nothing to go ballistic over.
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From everything that everyone is saying, I'm very glad that my brother decided to take up beekeeping as a hobby. Now because of his apiary on my parent's roof, I have access to high quality local Chicago honey. Can't wait for the harvest in a few weeks so I can make my Chicago Bears themed mead.
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Chicago Bears themed mead. Yes! haha...I've gotta hear what this entails.

BEAR DOWN!!
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Chicago Bears themed mead. Yes! haha...I've gotta hear what this entails.

BEAR DOWN!!

It'll probably entail use of either my brother's Chi-town honey or some orange flower honey, maybe both. The orange flower honey and/or using actual oranges in the mead will give me my burnt orange color of the Bears and then I'll use a mix of blueberries and huckleberries for the navy blue color of the Bears. Not sure about spices though, but I'm hoping this'll make a pretty mean melomel to honor the Chicago Bears.
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That said, there are expensive varietal honeys that make terrible meads.
That brought manuka honey to mind. I wonder if anyone has done this
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I've made great mead with the blended honey from Sam's Club, but usually its a melomel or strongly spiced metheglin, so I don't need 'great honey', just 'basic' honey.

I also don't compete.

Good to hear. My first mead is going now and I used clover honey from Sam's. The honey tasted great straight out the jug.
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