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Just me or is there still no price on this?

+ 6 gal muscat vanilla bochert pyment + 6 gallon 'strawberry tart' semi sweet strawberry melomel + 6 gallon bochert pear melomel = 365 gallon total

+6 dry peach +2 'koumiss mead' experiment 237.5 gallons

Mead making is all about time, usually the longer it sits, the better it gets. Some of my best batches so far I've all but forgot about them leaving it bulk age in secondary. In the future, if you believe you've hit your alcohol tolerance on the yeast but still want to shake a bit of extra...

+6 Gallons 'MVP' Muscat Vanilla Bochet Pyment +6 Gallons Apples and Oranges Melomel +6 Gallons Strawberry Melomel ________________________ 215.5 gallons

I am totally going to try this after my apples and oranges and strawberry melomel get out of my fermenters. Anyone try throwing some fruit in the secondary yet? I was thinking blackberries would be a good mix with this.

Thank you all for the outpouring of advice and pointers. From what you all have said i believe i am going to try to make a strawberry melomel and build on it to make a 'strawberries and cream' mead. Debating between 12.5 - 15 lbs of honey. 10 lbs of slurried and sanitized strawberries in...

I use it for both, the serrano variety makes an amazing bloody mary, as listed makes a fine martini. I usually keep it in the basement fridge and it lasts a good long time. Fairly certain it retains its alcohol shelf stability as long as you keep it sealed but never wanted to try.

Looks like prior posts covered alot of the big ones. Throwing out a few less traditional you might consider since they havent specifically been mentioned yet. I would recommend also trying Sprecher. They're famous for root beer/soda but have a decent sampling of different beers as well. I...

I have been looking around and havent seen anything like it so i figured i would ask here and see what the community says. I have been experimenting with different flavors. One of the next few i want to try was a strawberries and cream mead. Having said that has anyone attempted to use...

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I think the quoted wins. Ultimately it comes down to if its what people really want to drink. My favorite is from a friend, it is in regards to my mead "its good... its like honey had sex with a grape and they gave birth to liquid cotton candy.... i like it"

Thats pretty much all real vanilla extract is, the imitation stuff is sugar water and artificial vanilla flavor. I use it for my cooking and baking already so it wasnt a leap to do for brewing. I would recommend trying an aqua vite/akavit/taffel (depending on your preferred spelling). 750ml...

Also i know it might be sacrilegious to some but ive already had someone make it into a hot totty and another person found it too sweet so added it to club soda making it a spritzer. Both of which i tried and it turned out surprisingly good. Not what i envisioned when i set out to make the...

If you really wanted to bring the apple flavor forward, absolutely. The flavor i was going for only had hints of apple to it. Sort of an after thought, i was going more for pyment than cyser. Be warned though it is already crazy sweet as written, after fermentation and before watering it...