Plowboyzzt
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Found a recipe in a book on sacred and herbal healing beers that offers a recipe for heather mead. I want to try this, but thought I'd warm up on blackberry mead as I have access to both the honey and the flowers in my area. If anyone has any experience, here's what's going on. It's quite time consuming to pick the 12 cups of flowers recommended in the heather mead recipe, so I've been picking a couple cups of blackberry flowers a day and freezing them in a gallon baggie thinking that would work OK. But they are turning brown after a couple days in the freezer and look rather unappetizing. Still OK ? Today I picked and used the dehydrator instead....a lot less volume in the final product, but seems it may be better. Also tried dehydrating yesterday's pick from the freezer and they turned very brown.....seems the freezer may not be the way to go.
Also, I'm leaving the green sepals on the flowers as the amount of work involved in separating would be pretty insane. I did see one person saying their dandelion wine did not suffer from greenery.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
Also, I'm leaving the green sepals on the flowers as the amount of work involved in separating would be pretty insane. I did see one person saying their dandelion wine did not suffer from greenery.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.