Exotic meads?

[liquiditynerd]

Actually it was loquat with crepe Myrtle honey with three sprigs of rosemary, 2 sticks of cinnamon, and 1 jalepeno. Other than my taste buds, the loquat came from the back yard tree, the honey came from a friend that keeps bees a block away, the rosemary came from my giant rosemary bush near the garden and I grew the jalepenos in the garden from seed.

2 sticks of cinnamon 25 cents
1 packet of yeast $1.50
Collecting, cultivating, and consuming MY mead............

 

[Aquavitae]

Do you try the fruits before you formulate recipes? Also, how do you come up with the recipes if you have never worked with the fruit before? Are you concerned with the cost of some of the exotic stuff or losing money if a combination is particularly nasty?

Heh you could start a series of Youtube videos. Show the mixing of the recipe and the tasting after it ages. Call it Will It Brew?

 

[vahallasbrew2]

Do you try the fruits before you formulate recipes? Also, how do you come up with the recipes if you have never worked with the fruit before? Are you concerned with the cost of some of the exotic stuff or losing money if a combination is particularly nasty?

Heh you could start a series of Youtube videos. Show the mixing of the recipe and the tasting after it ages. Call it Will It Brew?

I haved some of the fruits I named and I just whent off what they tasted like the others that I've never had I whent off descriptions of what they tasted like, I know a website that'll send me exotic fruit 12 times a year for like 89 bucks and it ranges from buddas hand to durin to lematos. So I can get the fruits no problem. That's a good idea I have a channel already to lol so I'm that far in the YouTube part.

 

[huesmann]

Why be like that? You're on a site where we are encouraged to try new things and ask tons of questions. If you want to hold to traditional "honey and water" mead, feel free, but don't call him out because he wants to make something interesting and maybe totally individual...

Thanks

I didn't get the impression he was being "like that." Sounded to me he was being entirely in fun, and he did say he was being sincerely curious.

 

[alaktheman]

lol Dude, you come up with some of the weirdest crap to throw in the brew. Are you starting a brewery? Not picking, either...I'm sincerely curious. Is there a driving motivation to make things like ginger-rosemary-kumquat mead other than having super adventurous tastebuds?

Ginger rosemary kumquat mead actually sounds good lol

 

[blischynski]

After reading this, it makes me want to make a prickly pear cactus fruit mead. Now if only I knew where to get them...

They grow wild in Arizona

 

[Brett_Bellmore]

Meads or brews made of exotic fruits like buddas hand, kiwano or horned melon, mangosteen, dragons fruits, pomagrants, star fruits, maybe even a durin for the really.risky tastebuds im kinda debting on making something like this what do you think?

I actually LIKE durian, but given the way odors get released through the airlock, I'd have to ferment that one outdoors. Losing the smell might actually improve it.

 

[lpsumo]

I recently bought some Tonka beans, I'll be trying those soon