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Costco has 5lb jugs for about $15 here in CO. Almost all of my meads are made with "Costco Clover".

Excellent post on this topic with great pics here: Stark Raven Mead. I regularly reference the image of the honey at different stages when I'm cooking my "Creme Brew". I typically scorch 10# of Costco Clover to the color indicated at about 90 or 120 minutes in the above post, and then put...

Some photos from bottling. My process and recipes are pretty simplistic. 6# Costco clover honey, scorched to deep red 3# Costco clover, raw Handful of raisins, boiled for 5 min. or so. Water to 3 gal. Lalvin 1116 yeast (1 packet) Racked at 2 months, bottled at 3 1/2 months. The ladies love...

My Creme Brew right before & after bottling. I usually bottle in brown glass, but put this in a clear bottle just for this thread.

It's very possible to get a dryer mead. It's actually how I do most of mine. My rule of thumb is about 2 pounds of honey per gallon of mead usually comes out pretty dry as long as you use a decent wine yeast. You can add honey to get any desired sweetness from there (even adding it post...

Racked into secondary last night. Def. a little lighter character than a full bochet. Still pretty sweet, but absolutely wonderful. Had some friends over who tried it, and the wife's comments were "You can't even tell there's alcohol in it", ( I'm guessing it's around 10% right now) and "I could...

I've tried to respond to this thread about 4 times, and I guess they keep getting rejected by a moderator. Not sure why. I had some custom drinking horns made by a local ceramic artist that came about pretty great. I'm going to try leaving the picture and link out this time to see if it will...

I have one in primary now. 6# scorched to a deep red plus 3# unscorched in a 3gal. carboy.