Prepping prickly pear fruit

[BeerdedBrent]

Hi everybody,

I am new to this forum and I want to brew my first mead today. I did a bit of searching and didn't quite find the answer to my question.

I harvested a bunch or prickly pear fruit on my property, I have my mead supplies and I am almost ready to go. I know that I need to burn the glochids off too which I will work on tonight.

My question is should I add the fruit directly to the boil or cut open the fruit and add the insides or what? I don't want the cruft from the skin of the fruit making it into my mead.

Any advice here is helpful, thanks!

 

[NZ-beekeeper]

Firstly, mead doesn't need boiling...you'll boil away the delicate notes of your honey, unless you're doing a bochet. I'd scoop them and add to primary