Thank you for that! This isn't my first mead/homebrew, but it's the first one I tried a hydrometer on, so I did not think to take any gravity readings.
@fatbloke and WVMJ, the whole honeysuckle part was just an experiment anyway. When the dark honeysuckle liquid separated from the honey...
I have lurked for a while and this is my first time posting. I messed up and I don't know what happened, so I will just tell the long story of what I did, hoping a red flag will come up somewhere.
I set out to make a half-gallon of honeysuckle/honey brew. I picked a whole bunch of flowers...