Hello,
I thought I'd throw together a Light Cranberry Mead which is intended for next year. I am somewhat new to mead, but have a couple batches that are almost ready to bottle. In other words this post is probably an exercise in cataloging my mistakes.
Ingredients (pictured below):
Method:
Below is the color of the cranberry water before I added the honey.
Based on my initial taste, I have a feeling the cranberries will only be contributing color.
I thought I'd throw together a Light Cranberry Mead which is intended for next year. I am somewhat new to mead, but have a couple batches that are almost ready to bottle. In other words this post is probably an exercise in cataloging my mistakes.
Ingredients (pictured below):
- 1 lb cranberries
- roughly 72 oz of honey, blend of pure and raw from farmers market and home brew store.
- Lavlin K1-V1116
- 3.5 gallons of water
Method:
- Simmered 1 gal of cranberries for 15 minutes.
- Was disappointed in the faintly pink water, so I used a potato masher on the cranberries while they were simmering for another 5 minutes.
- Poured into fermentor, adding 1 gal of ice to cool it down.
- Poured another 1.5 gallons in fermentor
- Added honey while stirring.
- Added yeast.
Below is the color of the cranberry water before I added the honey.
Based on my initial taste, I have a feeling the cranberries will only be contributing color.