ericd

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Okay, I want to make a sparkling mead with lambic yeast. How do you think this would taste (gallon batch)?

1.10 kg clover honey (1.100 SG)
Hops to 33 IBU
1/2 oz Juniper Berries (all I have)
Lambic Yeast

I just have the juniper berries laying around, I'm not sure if they would taste good in it. Should I go the more traditional route with cherries or something? I'm not sure how the pininess from the juniper and the sourness of the lambic would taste together :/

DraconianHand

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I would go with the cherries, but I can't stand juniper ever since the gin and Gatorade Ice Tea experiment of '95.

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sirsloop

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LMFAO....

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z987k

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I would forgo the hops altogether.

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Iordz

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Lambic yeast requires starch and maltose to fully develop "lambic" flavors and sourness. You need to have, at least, a small portion of starch and malt derived fermentables for the bacteria and brett in the blend to create sourness. I don't know how mead with lambic yeast would taste but my suggestion would be to make a "lambic" and blend that with the mead, rather than using the yeast blend for primary fermentation.

PsiWulf7

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Or make a lambic and sub some of the fermentables for honey.

NurseNan

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a lambic braggot....hmmm, that has some potential!

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Primary
nothing
Secondary
Date Mead, Oatmeal Cookie Braggot, Fox in Sox Gruit
Aging
Hard lemonade, Cyser, Golden Plum Mead
Ginger-Orange Mead,
Agave Mead, Chocolate/Cinnamon Mead, Heather mead,
Bottled/Drinking
Heather Ale, Emerald Honey Kolsch, Hobgoblin clone, Terror of the Ewes Oatmeal Stout,
Kilt liftin' Wee Heavy, Soggy Doggy English Brown Ale, Saaz/Perle Mead, Cinnamon Mead, Shiraz,
Sauvignon Blanc, white merlot, Elderberry Mead, Vanilla Mead

malkore

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we discussed a lambic/braggot here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com//showthread.php?t=50529

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ericd

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Hey, I just hydrometered it and it's just under 1.000 . So there was no need to do a braggot. I just used Clover Honey from AHS, Yeast Nutrient, a touch of hops and Wyeast Lambic Blend, so it's definately possible to do this.