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Jak: In a roundabout way, yes. It started out as a 3 gallon batch of raspberry lemonade and 2 Carlo Rossi jugs (just shy of 3 gallons) of strawberry purée with enough water to start the strawberries fermenting. Combined them both in secondary to a 5-gal carboy. Racked to tertiary at the 4-month...

Raspberry Strawberry Lemonade Mead. 12 lbs Snowberry Honey. 4 lbs raspberries. 3 lbs strawberry puree. 2 cans Minute Maid lemonade concentrate. EC-1118 pitched on October 28, 2012. Bottled on September 3, 2013. 17.3% ABV.

I absolutely adore their snowberry. In tasting it all throughout ferment, it tends to keep it's buttery flavor, even as it gets drier. I think it would be absolutely stunning in a honey soda, but that's another project for another forum. :tank:

Here are a couple of meads I started around Halloween (although not Halloween inspired). Nuted them today and I decided to take a picture for you guys. Descriptions for the more interested below. Happy Holidays! Starting from the left (percentages are current, not target): Blueberry...

I have quite a bit of darjeeling tea on hand and I was wondering if it would be ok to use this in one of my next meads. Is there an ideal kind of tea leaf to use when brewing?

Thanks, GF. I definitely wasn't planning on using the berries. I've got 12 lbs of clover, snowberry and wildflower honey coming to me in the mail. Just wanted to see if anyone had any luck with and if it was worth making a 5-gallon batch of just snowberry honey in the future since I couldn't...

Has anyone here ever made a mead out of snowberry honey? From the few descriptions I can find scouring the interwebz, I can only find mixed reviews ranging from pineappley to very grassy and pungent.

From left: Simply Apple Cinnamon Cyser. 3.1 lbs Orange Blossom Honey. Lalvin KV-1116. Started March 4, 2012. Dry Ancient Orange. 2.6 lbs Clover Honey. Lalvin D47. Started March 5, 2012. Strawberry Melomel. 3.0 lbs Orange Blossom Honey. Lalvin KV-1116. Started January 9, 2012.

a bottle from my first batch of Ancient Orange. It turned out amazing.

Maybe it's just my little bit of mead experience, but D-47 seems to be a little sluggish in starting and staying up to speed as compared to yeasts like 71b-1122 or ec-1118. You should be fine if you stagger feedings with the nutrients.

Freeze them then thaw them. Freezing breaks down the cell walls without demolishing the fruit.