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Old 03-15-2009, 01:02 AM   #1
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Default Help! Overly tart and dry cranberry melomel

I have had a heck of a time trying to make mead or a melomel. My latest attempt was with cranberry honey with some cranberrys added in. I bottled the end result about two years ago. While smooth, it is almost undrinkable it is so dry and tart. Is this fixable? If so, how? Thanks.


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Old 03-15-2009, 11:11 AM   #2
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If it is already bottled, not a whole lot left to do. You could backsweeten in the glass, with juice, or a simple syrup or even some sprite. You could put all the bottles back into a bottling bucket to backsweeten and rebottle, but that is taking on a hell of a lot of chance of infection and definitely oxidation.


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