JohanTheMighty
Well-Known Member
Good evening. I am planning to make a mixed berry melomel this weekend. This will be my very first mead. What I did was simply decided I wanted to make a mead, looked up a recipe, and bought the ingredients. I don't know much about honey, but the recipe calls for wildflower honey, so that is what I bought, Happy Belly Wildflower honey 80 oz from Amazon. Today, I'm being told that what I needed to buy was raw and unfiltered honey, that what I bought is not going to taste very good.
Is that right? Personally, I always want to make whatever I brew the best I can make it, and I can see that being the case for a traditional mead, but what about a melomel that I intend to berry the hell out of and back-sweeten?
Going forward, I will be sure to get the best I can get, lesson learned. If anyone can give me some insight into whether the melomel will really turn out that bad because of the honey i have, I'd appreciate it. I'll put off the brew date a couple more weeks and plan on lots of toast and honey, tea and honey in my future, lol.
Is that right? Personally, I always want to make whatever I brew the best I can make it, and I can see that being the case for a traditional mead, but what about a melomel that I intend to berry the hell out of and back-sweeten?
Going forward, I will be sure to get the best I can get, lesson learned. If anyone can give me some insight into whether the melomel will really turn out that bad because of the honey i have, I'd appreciate it. I'll put off the brew date a couple more weeks and plan on lots of toast and honey, tea and honey in my future, lol.