this is a recipe I found somewhere else....what do you guys think....seems like a lot of honey for like 5 gallons
Pineapple Mead
18 lbs Honey (1 and 1/2 gallons, light color)
6 lbs fresh pineapple (3 pineapples)
1 cup corn sugar
1 pack champagne yeast
5 teaspoon yeast nutrient
1 1/4 teaspoon yeast energizer
1 1/4 teaspoon yeast hulls
3 gallons of water
Before starting boil, mixed yeast, sugar,
yeast nutrient, yeast energizer and
yeast hulls to let it start working.
Boiled honey and Skimmed off foam (I use wild honey so I have to do this). Then
Added the pineapple.
Cooled to 80 degrees Then pitched the yeast, put in bucket and put in an air lock.
Started in Bucket
9/5/2003
First Rack to Carboy
9/26/2003
Topped to 5 gallons in Carboy
Second Rack to Carboy
11/4/2003
Third Rack to Carboy
12/20/2003
Added 4oz Glycerine to help
smooth it out and also
2 1/2 tsp of Potassium
Sorbate to help prevent carbonation
in the bottle. Taste very good,
it has a very dominate
pineapple flavor. Will be a
very good mead.