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Would 4 oz. of honeyA pint make a decent mead?????

So my experience is paltry compared tp some....this will be my 5th batch of wine in general. 4th batch of mead. My very first was a blood orange cherry semi dry mead. My second wine was a mixed berry agave wine. Ive thought about doing a traditional mead but i guess melomels and cysers and other...

Thanks i got that maylar.lol. i meant i am going to make mead but what kind....what can i do that special or different?

So my wonderful wife and i were out shopping yesterday and came across some honey all the way from greece. We bought it and went home. I was eager to taste it and found it to be complex and pleasant. I later went on to amazon and purchased both the trader joes variety pack of honey and yoffi...

I agree here. When cooking fruit your not just getting flavors from the juice and sugars. It will come from skins and seeds as well. I would say cook a small amout of the desired fruit and taste it before making syrups. That way if the flavor isnt what you're looking for you haven't wasted so much.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/overcoming-potassium-sorbate-in-zeiglers-apple-cider.38783/ Hope this helps

I would definetly use some of that mixed with some warm apple cider during christmas. Some ciders just dont have enough cinnamon.

Taste is subjective. We all have likes and dislikes. The 2 mead companies that i have enjoyed are dansk mjod and buzzed bee in iowa. Dansk Mjod is more traditional mead and comes in nice ceramic/clay bottles. It's good stuff but costs about 35 dollars a bottle. Buzzed Bee is somewhat local...

I have been using both lalvin BM 4X4 and Premier blanc. They each have different flavors and the premier dries thing's out much more.

How does it smell? Is there is an off smell?

Sounds amazing. Couldnt you make your wart and then cool it off with room temp pre pasturized apple juice? Once your wart is cooled down you could simply add your honey to the wart/juice mix and then you'd have a completed must. Or you could make it a 2 step process by pasturizing your apple...

so a quick update: I watched it for a week and the activity is slow but there. I pulled a sample to test and taste and i would put it in the way too sweet category. That being said its already probably about 7%. I decided to pull a little more out and replace it with a bit of water. I also...

Thanks for the tip

Let us know how that turns out!

To be honest i am probably going to split it into 2 gallons and make up the difference with a bit of honey and apple juice.