What do you guys think of making a 100% Buckwheat honey mead? It has much more flavor than Orange Blossom or Clover honey. Do you think it would come out tasting ok?
If It interests anyone I Too have a 100% Buckwheat Honey mead .. just over 3.5lbs for 1 gallon. Its only been in primary for 2 days tho.
This thread was resurrected fortuitously! I'm actually planning on making three batches with buckwheat (a traditional, a chouchen, and one split between buckwheat and acacia) once my fermenters free up in about two weeks time. It'll take a while before things are ready to taste-test, but I can follow up and let you know how they all go.
Note: using west-coast buckwheat for the traditional and chouchen, and east-coast buckwheat for the acacia/buckwheat split.
Did you end up making this? If so, how did they come out?
I have made a 100% buckwheat mead, and I recommend against it lol I will never do it again. The initial taste, dry out of primary, was old stale beer. I backsweetened it and tried to balance it, but no matter what I did it just tasted like old stale beer with sweet cough medicine in it.... it has made me second guess adding the honey to anything ever again, though with the overwhelmingly good reviews on some things including buckwheat as a piece of the fermentables, I might try it out in the future. But 100% buckwheat traditional? Never.. again...In general, mead-makers will warn you off of using buckwheat.
This is because they are little girly-men.
However... you might not want to go 100%. I made a mead with 12 lbs clover and 3 lbs buckwheat, and it definitely adds a kind of a farmhouse/apple flavor to the whole deal. It's kind of appealing, but I wouldn't use it as more than 20-25% of your fermentables. If you do, though, let me know how it goes!
Hmm, I'll have to just take a leap of faith then and try it outFrom my experience, straight buckwheat is difficult as a mead.
As part of other meads it can be nice. I have used It in smaller amounts to add different flavors.
It works nice as a bochet or as a part of one. One of my favorites is in BOB...Buckwheat Orange Blossom traditional.
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