search the interent and see if you can find compressed cocao. they sell it in the caribbean islands like Dominica and Haiti. It is very unrefined and might be perfect for your chocolate mead.
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Wow! I've never been much of a mead fan but I'm watering at the mouth looking at those pics! Kudos on the experiment. I'm sure you'll have one hell of a recipe out of it.
search the interent and see if you can find compressed cocao. they sell it in the caribbean islands like Dominica and Haiti. It is very unrefined and might be perfect for your chocolate mead.
Thanks, Maybe we will give it a shot for our next round.
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Wow! I've never been much of a mead fan but I'm watering at the mouth looking at those pics! Kudos on the experiment. I'm sure you'll have one hell of a recipe out of it.
Thanks eschatz, We are actually new at mead, this board has been a great help. We plan to follow this through, the recipe will be out there for all to use. The only bad thing it (if you consider it bad) is the wait. Wish I could taste it now!
21 March 09: 3 months later, we racked to secondary. We set them out about an hour before racking. We did not take gravity reading this time. We will when we bottle. We did not know how much we were going to have.
Here is an after-rack shot:
We tasted; yes we know to early. Not ready yet. Give it time.....with that said, here is what we and the wifes came up with:
031 – 24oz Hershey Chocolate syrup:
Light Chocolate smell and taste, very smooth 032 – 1, 6.8 oz Plain Hershey Chocolate Bar
Creamy buttery texture, not a bad taste. Low Alcohol taste. 033 – 2, 6.8 oz Special Dark Hershey Chocolate Bars
More chocolate taste (cocoa). Higher Alcohol burn, but not in a bad way 034 – 6oz by weight, Hershey dark coco powder
Smells really good, bitter chocolate taste. 035 – 6oz by weight Nesquick coco milk mix
Light chocolate aroma. Very sweet with just a hint of chocolate. Very smooth 036 – 6oz by weight Hershey unsweetened coco powder
Smells great, same as 34 but rounder. Definite bitter cocoa flavor
Awesome! I would love to hear some final words on this when you bottle. Did you prime the carboys with any co2 before or after your racking, since you do have a fair amount of headspace, or is it still fermenting strongly at this point? I would hate to hear the final tasting went poorly because of oxidation.
I am thinking of doing one or two gallons of this in a month or two and would love to use your research as a base for mine
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the idea of homebrew is to make something that tastes better, is better for you, and reflects your personal tastes better than a commercial brew... not to power your lawmower
Awesome! I would love to hear some final words on this when you bottle. Did you prime the carboys with any co2 before or after your racking, since you do have a fair amount of headspace, or is it still fermenting strongly at this point? I would hate to hear the final tasting went poorly because of oxidation.
I am thinking of doing one or two gallons of this in a month or two and would love to use your research as a base for mine
Thank You. We will be keeping everyone informed as we progress. No, we did not prime with CO2; *so far* it has not been a problem. You are right, oxidation would be rather upsetting.
Our idea with this is to shoot for taste. Once we have the taste we want, we will do larger batches and take better gravity readings, ect.
Awesome, sounds like by the time I have open carboys you will have some proven recipes for me
__________________ Meads: Leap Year, MAOM, Habanero/Serrano Capsicumel \m/ Oo \m/, Show Mead for Berry Melomel and Cinnamon Vanilla Metheglin Ciders:3 Ciders with differing additives TBD, Strawberry/Apple Cider Wine: Trader Joe's Triple Berry Wine for SWMBO, Cherry Port, planning my Black Currant Vanilla Wine, Banana Wine
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Originally Posted by Snuffalupagus
the idea of homebrew is to make something that tastes better, is better for you, and reflects your personal tastes better than a commercial brew... not to power your lawmower
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