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I'm keen to make a hopped mead. What sort of honey do you use? I'd suspect that lighter flavoured honey would tend to lose its flavour with the hops.

What variety was the honey? I've found that certain honeys can give bad tastes in a mead, while being great as a honey (a honeydew honey based mead was my worst, tasted like turpentine!). I always fermented out to dry for my meads and discovered that without having sweetness to hide behind, the...

Honey won't carry many pathogens due to the lack of water - it's drier than bacteria, so will suck water from them, and has a pH of 3-4, so it's a pretty hostile environment. Oh, and it contains small amounts of hydrogen peroxide too. Once you've added water though, treat it as you would your...