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I'm not sure of the oven method or the time involved, but I definately think I'd prefer the vodka method, but how about using gin instead, it's about 40% and is made out of juniper berries, so it would help with the "wild" taste

I will definitely do that, my question is though, what is the best way to sterilize the needles before adding them to secondary?

Well the blueberry really took control of this brew, didn't really take into account te fact that the blueberries were dried and so were essentially concentrated, should still be good, just now I believe that the pine may be an accent and not the primary flavor, but only time will tell...

Add to that, dried orange peel

Here goes a 1 gal batch of pine mead, I couldn't just do only pine, I like being creative... So we are doing pine (new spring growth, no old needles) fresh mint leaves, dried blueberries, nutmeg, cinnamon stick, cloves. Wish me luck!

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Is that just honey, nutrient, water and yeast? How does it taste?

The walnut wood I have isn't black walnut, just regular walnut. I have a gallon of choke cherry wine that is fermenting right now, but they were seeded and juiced first, haven't had a chance to taste it yet but it smells fantastic.

Interesting, I was thinking of toasting or burning the needles a bit before I brew the tea with them to see if that adds a deeper flavor, same with the wood chips.

Great info, thanks!

They look just like regular cherries just they have a really dry flavor when they are raw that isn't very pleasing to the mouth, but when they are juiced and cooked they taste similar to a regular cherry just a bit less sweet

That's a good idea, I may try a gallon of just pine alone at first

I won't even risk it then, thanks for the info, is walnut wood or apple wood safe?

Ooh I might have to try that recipe with this years harvest

Thanks for your reccommendation, I don't know f black spruce grows around here, if it does I will sample it and make some tea and see if I like the flavor, wouldn't be opposed in using more than 1 type of pine in order to reach the correct flavor, when making tea out of pine needles, the flavor...

Great idea! I forgot to mention the juniper, I already had kind of thought of that too, now my question about juniper berries is.. Can I just go in the mountains ad pick some and then just use them, or is there a specific variety that is safe to use in making alcohol? And I think citrus is a...

I'll have to look into that, thanks!

I'm not familiar with sassafras, I looked it up, it is aparantly some kind of tree, correct? I don't even know if they grow in Utah where I'm located.

I didn't know that it was bad, I've had choke cherry juice made from the cherrys that grow on that very tree, but I will research that more to find out, the wood just has such a strong cherry aroma I thought it might be interesting in a mead or wine, maybe not this one but I definately want to...

So I have a crazy idea for a mead recipe, but I don't want it to end up being nasty. I have made tea in the past out of brewing pine needles and it was delish, and I was thinking of making a pine mead... Maybe also adding some other types of wild fresh ingredients such as some fresh mint, maybe...