McMead

[DarkNoonBrewer]

What an ecological disaster.

No Debbie Downers or Negative Nancy's! Ha! But you are right. "Paying" your way to free honey is an expensive way to acquire honey. Unhealthy too.

Say, OP, have you thought about your method of extracting the honey from all the packets efficiently? I can imagine your fingers would be extremely tired after squeezing out 500 packets. Could you use a set of rollers to extract the juice? A friend suggested cutting the packages in half, and tossing em in the pot with hot water and stir until all the honey left the packets, and then use a screen of some sort to remove the empty packets. You'll have to calculate efficiency and report your findings to us!

 

[maxamuus]

Remember we want pictures or McMead didnt happen!

 

[1Brotherbill]

Centrifugal Honey Extractor would work for this wouldn't it. Maybe even a salad spinner might work. Just slice the packs and toss them in and give them a spin. I bet that honey is pretty thin anyway so it probably flows with some ease. So kind of makes me wonder about the makeup of that honey now.

 

[DarkNoonBrewette]

I bet that honey is pretty thin anyway so it probably flows with some ease.

I had to taste it for myself. Its actually good honey and pours just as thick as any other honey i've tried. I also opened a packet and dipped it into my coffee until the tub was clean. (they come in little tubs with foil wrappers) This may be support for my original idea of opening all the packs and dumping the packs into hot water.

OP: How many packs do you have now?

 

[1Brotherbill]

Need an update on this idea.

 

[klcramer]

would love to give a positive update...but... I can not.... My dog loves to chew everything.... You can guess where this is going. Somehow she got down into my brew room and destroyed my honey stash.

 

[BeerWard]

Nooooooooooooo!

 

[bob1852]

Oh NOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many packets did you lose?

Time to hijack the McDonalds supply truck (I kid, I kid...)

 

[klcramer]

a little over 200 packets.....one very sticky dog....... one call to poison control to make sure the dog would be okay..... one not so happy SWMBO

 

[oldmate]

Worst news I've heard all week

 

[Homercidal]

I know that KFC uses a honey flavored product. Good to know McD's is lookin out for us. Too bad about the packet loss. I was interested in seeing how this went.

 

[klcramer]

This battle isn't over!!!! I'm not going to give up. If anyone frequents McDonald's and can offer to send a few packets my way that would be great just PM me for my address. I am thinking of approaching the owner of the local McD's and offer to trade him a few bottles for a case of packets.

 

[bob1852]

This battle isn't over!!!! I'm not going to give up. If anyone frequents McDonald's and can offer to send a few packets my way that would be great just PM me for my address. I am thinking of approaching the owner of the local McD's and offer to trade him a few bottles for a case of packets.

Screw the owner - go to the pimply 16 year old working the counter

Good to see ya back on the horse!

 

[Homercidal]

Check out a lock box to prevent the accident from happening again.

 

[DarkNoonBrewer]

This battle isn't over!!!!

Sweet!!! Dude, I thought it was over after the dog got a hold of the honey... How's the collection coming?

 

[klcramer]

Back up to 100 packets. I did let this fall by the way side for some time due to starting a new job. 500 packets here I come! Not sure how to get the honey out of the packets yet. I will cross that bridge where I get there. There will be pictures to document the effort. Then I need to design the label. Would like to have this in the primary by the end of summer.

 

[funkadelicturkey]

I thought about this at one time while at Starbucks with all the honey packets sitting on the counter, put some in my coffee and took a couple home but gave up on the idea (would have made a good coffee mead). Happy to see you are following through where others gave up and on your second attempt! Best wishes to your delicious McMead!!!

 

[ExoticMeadMaker]

any updates?

 

[Insomniac]

Ha! What an awesome idea (thanks for the bump Exotic or I would have missed this!)
I don't think Maccy D's do honey over here (UK), what does it normally come with?

 

[jeffd10]

Ha! What an awesome idea (thanks for the bump Exotic or I would have missed this!)
I don't think Maccy D's do honey over here (UK), what does it normally come with?

breakfast stuff ..bisquits, pancakes etc...:fro:

 

[Sharkman20]

Haha, this is awesome. Buy like 30 of those apple pies and scrape out all the apple cinnamon filling for flavoring.

 

[noggins]

It would probably be easier to start an apiary...

 

[ChshreCat]

It would probably be easier to start an apiary...

Hey, he's not doing it because it's easy. Was it easy for Columbus to find the new world? No. Was it easy for Neil Armstrong to land on the moon? No. Wat it easy for me to dip this deep into hyperbole? Actually, yes. It comes naturally.

 

[bob1852]

Hey, he's not doing it because it's easy. Was it easy for Columbus to find the new world? No. Was it easy for Neil Armstrong to land on the moon? No. Wat it easy for me to dip this deep into hyperbole? Actually, yes. It comes naturally.

"You see, kids, when columbus set sail in a little rickety boat and let it ride all the way to the new world on a single tank of gas, that was a gamble. Ben franklin, thomas edison, albert einstein-- all gamblers." ~ Clark W. Grizwold



I keep meaning to do this. Maybe with a little compeition to get 'r done, the OP will be more motivated.

 

[bruin_ale]

hah, this is classic. I read the first post and was thinking that McD must use the same crap KFC uses - guess not - good for them. I remember awhile back as I was putting "honey" on my KFC biscuit and decided to read the package, it was basically just honey scented high fructose corn syrup - yuck, haven't been back to KFC since actually.

"Oh, I hated the Colonel, with his weee beaty eyes, and that smug look on his face...Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken.."

 

[noggins]

Was it easy for Columbus to find the new world?

Yeah, I felt like columbus when I discovered homebrewing...in that I had found something amazing, that millions of people knew about before me.

 

[JasontheBeaver]

"Oh, I hated the Colonel, with his weee beaty eyes, and that smug look on his face...Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken.."

I saw the Colonel live in a parade in Portland when I was a kid. He looked 175 years old sitting on that red and white striped float.
It stopped right in front of us while the clowns were scooping some horse poop outta the way. My Dad says, "Look Jason, it's Colonel Sanders! The guy who started KFC!" But then old man Sanders starts coughing and gagging and choking. The crowd starts all looking at each other like "we might get to see the end of ole whitey right here and now!" Finally he hawks up a nasty loogy and launches that thing onto the pavement right in front of us to a low chorus of "uuuuuuuuuughs" from the crowd.
I would bet my mortgage that KFC sales figures in the greater Portland metro area dropped significantly for a period of time.

We need an update on McMead!!

 

[lumpher]

use montrachet yeast (french). that way you could call it a royale mcmead

 

[cgs1984]

lmao

 

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