Maple syrup and brown sugar mead

[MeadPirate]

Basic and advanced

 

[MeadPirate]

This thread helps beginners and advanced mead brewers

 

[fatbloke]

This thread helps beginners and advanced mead brewers

No it doesn't ! if there's no honey involved, it's not mead. Even acerglyn would have honey and maple syrup........

 

[MeadPirate]

Its using syrup or sugar instead of fruit or just honey

 

[MeadPirate]

Has anyone just tried it with maple syrup?

 

[Blademaker]

Has anyone just tried it with maple syrup?

I have not.
But a friend of mine has.
I let him taste some of my semi dry Cherry Melomel at the Blade show this past June, and he made a batch of "Mead" using just maple syrup, and bought a bottle to the Knife makers Guild Show.
While palatable, with a heavy syrup flavor, it still wasn't true Mead.

 

[decoleur]

its a maple wine, nothing mead about it.

i have just bottled my second batch. use nutrients. I did a starter with a 1:5 syrup to water ratio and 15g of lavlin 7b-1113 then added that to a ratio of 1:3 for the unfermented stuff. fermented down from 1.11 to 1.010 in less than a month. racked off of sediment and let sit for 3 more. just bottled.

tastes a little sweet like a desert wine and still has some maple syrup flavors. I would only add sugar if you cannot get enough maple syrup. and wouldn't use brown sugar unless you want to change the color.

hope this helps,

-decoleur

 

[fuelish]

Perhaps MeadPirate is referring to adding maple syrup/brown sugar with the honey to make it a mead???.....perhaps the op is incomplete, as it's lacking any specifics??? Just giving the benefit of the doubt here, I dunno....but I've never tried it, don't care for maple syrup enough to add it to a mead

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

I recommend Grade B syrup. It tastes more mapely and I like it more than grade A in all uses. Real maple fans use grade B.

 

[MeadPirate]

Yes , i am referring to adding maple syrup/brown sugar with the honey, because sometimes when i make a batch just with honey the taste is not to my liking

 

[decoleur]

MeadPirate,
Look for recipes for Chocolate Aphrodisiac. It is a mead that gets back sweetened with maple syrup. That strategy might be good for you as well.

 

[Dominic1920]

I've made brown sugar and honey mead, basically because of the high price of honey right now. It turned out fine, actually tasted kind of like a cider. I back sweetened it just with honey. It was different, and I kind of liked it, but I didn't think of it as a true mead though.

 

[MeadPirate]

I just finished too small batches of mead..( very small content of honey) and it was perfect.. could of let ot stand longer.. but it was fine. On to the next batch- loaded with honey and dates.

 

[decoleur]

MeadPirate-

What were the recipes and what did you like about your final output? I am sitting on 5 lbs of Star Thistle honey that I cannot wait to use.

 

[MeadPirate]

Alright my final output had more of a slight beer taste to it which was actually interesting... well i cant give you exact quantities ,because i make different size batches all the time but for the batch i just finished was simply just shelf honey, brown sugar, alot of maple syrup, ale yeast/baking yeast( harder to use)..thats basiclly it

 

[Bear979]

I made a maple mead a while back, really good stuff. I used 1kg of honey and 1 1/2 cups of maple syrup (amber, a bit dark with loads of flavour), and 1 tsp of maple sugar. It ended up being not too sweet but a great maple flavour.