Manoau2002
Active Member
I have been thinking about making mead for a while and I decided to just go for it last night (without really looking at any recipes) and bought 6 kilo's of honey (cheap walmart stuff) and 8 500mg jars of blueberry jam (again cheap walmart stuff)
I dumped the blueberry jam into a pot with about a gallon of water and got it hot enough to break down the jam into a juice. I had about a half kilo of white sugar kicking around so I dumped that in as well. I dumped the blueberry jam juice into the fermenter with the 6 kilo's of honey. After adding some water, in total I had about 5.5 gallons of liquid.
After it cooled down (this morning) I pitched a packet of belgium ale yeast I had in my fridge. (Didn't know when I could get to a homebrew store with my work schedule) Later in the day I made it to the homebrew store and bought some ec-1118 yeast and some yeast nutrient. I am planning to add more nutrient on the 3rd, 5th, and 10th days in the fermenter.
Any ideas how this will turn out? Any suggestions to improve it? How long should I let it age? The sugar content appears to be above what my hydrometer can read - is there to much sugar between the honey, jam, and white sugar?
I dumped the blueberry jam into a pot with about a gallon of water and got it hot enough to break down the jam into a juice. I had about a half kilo of white sugar kicking around so I dumped that in as well. I dumped the blueberry jam juice into the fermenter with the 6 kilo's of honey. After adding some water, in total I had about 5.5 gallons of liquid.
After it cooled down (this morning) I pitched a packet of belgium ale yeast I had in my fridge. (Didn't know when I could get to a homebrew store with my work schedule) Later in the day I made it to the homebrew store and bought some ec-1118 yeast and some yeast nutrient. I am planning to add more nutrient on the 3rd, 5th, and 10th days in the fermenter.
Any ideas how this will turn out? Any suggestions to improve it? How long should I let it age? The sugar content appears to be above what my hydrometer can read - is there to much sugar between the honey, jam, and white sugar?