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So I stumbled on raw honey in the grocery store and decided to give it a shot since I've been getting more into honey as a result of mead making. Imagine my surprise when its quite possibly the best tasting sweetener I've ever tried. Doing a quick search I found...

This was my first attempt...was supposed to be a "Strawberry Lemon" mead that came out just "Lemon". Dumped a couple pounds of berries into the mead and let it sit for a while to produce this. MUCH closer to what I was looking for.

Hey, just figured I'd give an update. Took the advice to pour the bottled Lemon Mead (gave up referring to strawberry at that point) back into the fermenter and dumped another pound of orange blossom honey into it along with 1 lb of strawberries, 1 lb of blueberries, and 1 pint each of...

Wow. Great stuff and thanks a ton. Already made notes to refine my process and am planning the next batch (thinking since its early summer going for a "wild berry" mead).

Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it (questions to follow), but first a "taste test" story. Took my left over bottle (about 750 ml worth of the lemon mead) and added about 1 oz of agave syrup (only liquid sweetener I had in the place) to attempt to back sweeten it. The sweetness...

So as stated, this was my first attempt and I was hoping for some feedback on technique and insight on how long I should let this sit. First off, the recipe: Strawberry Lemon Mead, ~2.5 gallon batch 4 lbs Strawberries 9 lbs Honey (went with generic clover figuring the additives would...