Search results

Guld, did you end up trying this? If so, I'd love to hear about your results (especially if it's to the tune of "huge mess--don't try"). Thanks!

Thanks for the quick responses, pvtpublic! I appreciate that the honey is everything--after all, this is mead we're talking about--but there's no chance I'm paying top dollar for honey that I'm going to use in a melomel. The stuff from CostCo is the same brand as what I can buy at the organic...

I haven't decided on the recipe, but it will definitely be a 5 gallon batch. I'm thinking probably 10lbs of CostCo clover honey, 5 or 10lbs of frozen blueberries, and 5g of 71B-1122.

I am planning a blueberry melomel, and I want to try to do it without adding any artificial (for lack of a better word) yeast nutrient. I know the blueberries will have some of what the yeasties will need, but I am hardly a chemist, and I'm not sure what else I should add. Does anyone have...

I was at the Maryland Renaissance Festival last weekend (where I had a great time), and I stopped into the BeeFolks shop. They have meadowfoam honey, but it's $80 a gallon. I would really love to make a meadowfoam mead, but that's pretty steep. I found something on a different forum about...

If you want to blanket with CO2 but you don't have a keg system, you can drop a few pieces of dry ice into your carboy before siphoning in your mead. Be sure to let the carboy warm back up before you put any room-temperature liquid in so it doesn't crack. Some grocery stores carry dry ice; I...