1. For the Nesquick (I can't remember if it was mentioned, I read through the post again but might have missed it) do you use powder or the chocolate syrup?
2. Has anyone ever tried adding strawberries to this, as was mentioned a couple pages before? If so, how did it come out? Valentine's Day coming up put me in the mood for something seductive, maybe get a brew going and have it ready, aged, and tasty by V-Day 2011 for me and the lady. Chocolate and strawberries sounds like a very good flavor, I wonder how it'd be in a mead. Sounds like something good for the romance to me, at least.
1. just regular powder, As a tip it will blend better in warmer water
2. We haven't added anything yet, but have discussed many options.
One was strawberrys, we also considered some kind of nut flavoring, or maybe orange.
Yeah, I don't really care for beer, but there's a rather excellent sounding stout recipe for a Chocolate Orange flavor that makes me think I might brew up a batch sometime, here on HBT. Thanks for the tip with the regular powder and all. I fully intend to add some strawberries to a one gallon batch and will post with the results in a year or so when I have 'em.
Yeah, I don't really care for beer, but there's a rather excellent sounding stout recipe for a Chocolate Orange flavor that makes me think I might brew up a batch sometime, here on HBT.
I'm thinking perhaps a Joe's Ancient Orange Mead with the 6oz Nesquick from this thread = Chocolate Orange Mead???
If I was gonna do that, I'd probably go a MAOM rather than JAOM. Joe's is a great recipe, but its unpredictable. I've made two gallons of it and tried 4 bottles of them (both batches made within a week of each other, bottled after 7.5ish weeks, they were pretty golldurn clear) and each of the 4 bottles has tasted wildly different from the others, varying degress of dryness and sweetness, one had bottle carbed. I'd rather have something with a known quantity and strength of yeast, so I could be a little bit more sure of what I was going to get.
I have an important question .... we have looked and looked for Nesquik cocoa milk mix but can only find Nesqik "chocolate flavored drink mix". Is this considered the same thing? Or am I just not looking in the right places?
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We racked our chocolate mead over to a tr-imary last night.
It was off the hook, Very nice chocolate / liquorish smell and extremely good chocolate flavor
Will be bottling in 4 to 6 months and have anothwer update then
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