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Has anyone ever considered putting rum in their tropical mead? Most tropical drinks include rum and I was wandering if anyone has attempted to add this to a tropical mead.

Nice, I am also in the process of doing a tropical mead. I am basing mine off of a drink called the painkiller in the virgin islands. I used orange blossom honey and put oranges and pineapple in the secondary, then coconut and last I will put in some nutmeg. I'm excited for this as well.

Okay so no more heating. I know that has been a subject of debate and the argument for not heating makes sense because it can burn off good flavors in the honey. I have based most of my mead making off of "The Compleat Meadmaker" which uses the heating process but it seems most of the people...

Hi everyone, I am currently 5 months into bulk aging my blueberry melomel (my first attempt at making mead) in a glass carboy. Today I decided to give it a little taste and it is very dry, very tart, and has almost a rubbery taste to it. Now I heated my honey and used d-47 and from what I...

Hey everyone! This is my first post on this forum. I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to making mead. Mid March I made my first blueberry melomel. When I racked it into my carboy and onto the blueberries i had zero headroom. When I racked it off the blueberries I was left with a decent...