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Not sure where you live but my husband and I make semi annual trips to Milwaukee and we have bought directly from Kallas honey farm( well more like a warehouse in an industrial park). However they get all their honey, when possible, from WI beekeepers and they have many great varieties...

I racked it off the primary a month ago. The cider itself ( before adding to the primary) was dense and not clear like apple juice typically is, it is still just as cloudy as it started out although a lot of the apple bits look like they have fallen to the bottom in the secondary so I plan to...

In September I started a cyser with the real deal fresh, pressed apple cider with no preservatives or additives. You know, the stuff you find at apple farms that is thick, caramel colored and not the clear stuff you find in the grocery store. Has anyone ever done a cyser with this kind of...

Halbrust, I had a gallon of this god awful stuff (buckwheat honey). I burnt the heck out of it and made a bochet. The house smelled like a barn for two days afterward (even with all the windows open). It's in the secondary now and has not one detectable barnyard smell or taste, instead it...

If you ever get mystery honey again you may want to try a trick that IIIUVEATAR once posted when I was asking about honey flavor. He advised diluting a small amount in water, this will reduce the overpowering sweetness and let you smell and taste the underlying subtleties. I happened to have a...

Corn, interesting ingredient. My husband and I visited Makers Mark in Louisville a couple years ago and got to tour the mash (whiskey must) building. Mash likes heat to ferment much more than mead must does, Interesting is that bourbon is distinguished from other whiskers because it is made...

Figured I'd give an update on the buckwheat bochet. Tasted on the first racking and no barnyard taste nor smell. Very pleasant in fact, fairly dry already with a molasses flavor. Seems that burning the buckwheat honey significantly reduces any unpleasantness and leaves behind a very rich...

Okay burnt a half cup of the buckwheat honey. The smell, at first, was that of a hot steaming barnyard but then that smell seemed to disapate. It actually started to take on, of all things, the smell of fresh cut wood once it started to burn. I was not intending to let it go this long, was...

Arpolis, That's a good thought only thing is I'm not a hoppy kind of gal (although my hubby would llove this idea). But you have given me some ideas. I think I'll burn a little like Illuveater suggested then experiment with other favors (spice) like you suggested to see what either helps or...

illuveater, I too have heard of the not so good underlying smell and taste of this honey. There is a thread on here that even describes it as "barnyard" so you have helped confirm my suspicion. I do like your idea of boiling a sample amount to see the affect. That was also a great suggestion...

I have a gallon of buckwheat honey and was thinking this could either make a very interesting bochet or an incredibly lousy one. So I thought I'd ask the experts out there that have experience in either bochet or buckwheat mead making, what is your recomendation of how to "mead" this unusual honey?