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Started my blueberry show mead today! Ingredients: - 1.5 kg of blueberry blossom honey - Tap water to 1 gallon - 1/4 tsp of DAP - 1/2 tsp of yeast nutrients - Lalvin 71B-1122 Narbonne white wine yeast I will add 1/4 tsp of DAP and 1/2 tsp of yeast nutrients at 2/3 & 1/3 sugar breaks...

Thanks for your help guys! For now, I will make a show mead with Lalvin-71B. Next summer, during the blueberry season, I'll try a blueberry melomel with fresh berries and blueberry blossom honey.

I have a question about the Solera aging process: What do you do with your last carboy when it's bottling time? If I understood correctly, it will still have 1/2-1/3 gallon of mead. So you add fresh must (1/2-2/3 gallon) and yeast on top of the remaining mead?

I have a few more questions (new at mead making): 1 - A show mead is only honey, water and yeast right? No nutrients, no DAP, etc.? 2 - Is it considered a waste (of good honey) to make a melomel with a varietal such as blueberry/raspberry blossom? I ask this because they are relatively...

I bought some blueberry honey and I can't decide what to do with it... Should I make a traditional? A blueberry melomel? Something else?

First time making mead! Made 1 gallon of JAOM and 1 gallon of JQGM.