therealrsr
Well-Known Member
12# Local Wildflower(clover) Honey
4 gallons H2O (Office/home carboy water)
4 tsp. Fermaid K
Lalvin 71b-1122 (pre-hydrated only)
6.5 Glass Carboy Primary
No boil (the honey is "MO Wildflower" from LHBS, but I got the beekeepers name, googled him, and talked with him before starting about pasteurization need. He's a mead maker as well, honest about his product and hence the clover in parenthesis above, lol)
1/3 to FG 1 tsp. Fermaid K
Secondary 2/3 to FG
49 oz. Vintner's Harvest Blackberry Puree
1 tsp. Fermaid K
Tertiary
49 oz. Vintner's Harvest Blackberry Puree and same honey to taste (the 71b should be topping out at ~14% before this addition per Gotmead's calc) for sweet/aroma/flavor
Still bottle or Force carb and finally buy that beer gun I've wanted for a while? still undecided, sampling will decide.
Thoughts/suggestions from those more experienced with Mead are appreciated. Which is basically anyone who's made a mead already
I have done a couple hundred gallons of beer and about 70 gallons cider/cyser/braggot though so not totally green)
Thanks been a while since I've posted here, still a great community.
4 gallons H2O (Office/home carboy water)
4 tsp. Fermaid K
Lalvin 71b-1122 (pre-hydrated only)
6.5 Glass Carboy Primary
No boil (the honey is "MO Wildflower" from LHBS, but I got the beekeepers name, googled him, and talked with him before starting about pasteurization need. He's a mead maker as well, honest about his product and hence the clover in parenthesis above, lol)
1/3 to FG 1 tsp. Fermaid K
Secondary 2/3 to FG
49 oz. Vintner's Harvest Blackberry Puree
1 tsp. Fermaid K
Tertiary
49 oz. Vintner's Harvest Blackberry Puree and same honey to taste (the 71b should be topping out at ~14% before this addition per Gotmead's calc) for sweet/aroma/flavor
Still bottle or Force carb and finally buy that beer gun I've wanted for a while? still undecided, sampling will decide.
Thoughts/suggestions from those more experienced with Mead are appreciated. Which is basically anyone who's made a mead already
I have done a couple hundred gallons of beer and about 70 gallons cider/cyser/braggot though so not totally green)Thanks been a while since I've posted here, still a great community.
