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made up a new recipe for my pumpkin spice mead, simplified, 1 pound chopped sugar pumpkin, 1 oz chopped raisins, 1 cinnamon stick, 4 cloves, 3 lbs of honey and 10 drops of doTerra On Guard essential oil blend (wild orange peel, clove bud, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus leaf and stem, rosemary leaf...

Haven't been brewing anything for over a year... Ready to get back into making delicious strong meads, what should I make? I'm down for anything as long as it's cheap and easy ;) Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I need to make me a small batch of this! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I think I may know the aftertaste you are describing, is it a musky flavor? Almost like rancid a bit? I had this happen a couple times when I left my mead too long between racking, one batch of aprocot I had to completely throw out it was unbearable, but my jaom had a bit of this off taste at...

Just transferred my pineapple mango mead to secondary, can't wait to see how it tastes, smells perfect!

It turned out to be fairly decent, I had a few hiccups along the way and it had just a mild musk to it, but it's still pleasant to drink, the pine flavor did actually come through but you wouldn't know it was pine if it wast labeled, it just has a really nice earthy flavor I plan on making some...

Looks beautiful! I love blueberry, I've been wanting to try out a blueberry anise mead but havnt tried it out yet, I do have a pine blueberry mead but the blueberry is very subtle... How did you get it so dark?

Well I don't know of any mead that looks pretty when it's fermenting lol, it smells fantastic though

I will post soon

Yeah, I mean I kind of made it up, but it's in correction to a previous batch I made, trying to improve, I'll post when I get a chance, not at home

Started a batch of my delicious pumpkin ginger chai spice mead last weekend! So exited for this!

I made a batch of 2 gallon strawberry passion mead a few months ago, it's fantastic, I'm excited for you!

Update, I did taste it, fairly strong and dry, but a definite strawberry tart flavor, nothing off about it. One of my best tasting meads so far

I have been wondering how juniper berries would turn out in mead, is it overpowering?

Just transferred my 2gal bucket of strawberry passion tea mead to secondary, looks beautiful, I havn't tasted yet