kdar
Member
I am planning to make 6 gallons of mead. How much honey would I need to use? I have about 10 pounds of Costco honey now.
Well the gotmead calculator is as good as any, but I don't like the "guesstimate" element of it.Use this calculator to figure out how much to use for the strength you want... Normal range is 2-4# of honey per gallon of must (not water).
Well the gotmead calculator is as good as any, but I don't like the "guesstimate" element of it.
I prefer to mix 3lb with water so it makes a gallon total, then take a gravity reading, to work out if I need to add any more. By that "logic", it'd be 18lb of honey, made up to 6 gallons before the gravity check, then it would be relatively easy to add more, 1lb at a time, to increase the gravity to whatever the desired level might be.
I'd be more concerned about the provenance of the honey. "Costco" honey is likely to have been blended and otherwise processed to hell and back (presuming that Costco US is the same group as the company of the same name here). It'd probably be fine for a nice, tasty melomel, cyser or pyment etc, but I wouldn't think it suitable for a traditional mead.
Oh, I have no doubt about that.Costco honey is legit. Thread and article about it in an earlier thread. -----%<-----
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