Mountain dew mead!!!!

[vahallasbrew2]

I'm a genius I'm gonna make a mead using mountain dew

 

[H-ost]

What?? I know nothing of meads so.... What??

 

[vahallasbrew2]

I'm gonna make a mead using mountain do instead of water sooo say for a gallon batch I'm ill use a pound and 1/2 of honey melted down with say 1/3 gallon of water then the rest be mountain dew I think it would would and the sugar in mw would aid in producing food for the yeast and be sweet along with the honey. It's a shot in the dark but I think it would be pretty darn good my two cents wort of course.

 

[lcf8088]

Subscribed to see how this turns out

 

[brewingmeister]

A real genius would know your creation wouldn't be called mead.

good luck with your skeeter pee though.

 

[voltin]

You are going to have a hard time getting the yeast to take hold in the soda, because of the preservatives contained in Mountain Dew. Sodium Benzoate, the chief preservative in MD, will at the very least inhibit healthy yeast growth, and at worst kill the yeast outright.

 

[rstewy2]

I've heard of people fermenting straight cola with a good pitch of yeast. I don't think it should be a problem diluted.

 

[Insomniac]

Theres a thread on here with someone trying to ferment mountain dew throwback. Dont think it went well but might be worth hunting down.

 

[huesmann]

A real genius would know your creation wouldn't be called mead.

OK, genius, why don't you educate him: why wouldn't it be mead, since the primary fermentable sugar will be honey?

 

[brewingmeister]

why wouldn't it be mead, since the primary fermentable sugar will be honey?

traditional mead is water, honey and yeast...nothing else.

the hbt wiki has a list of variants; https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Mead

what he is attempting would be more of a skeeter pee energy drink

 

[brewingmeister]

larger list of variants; http://www.gotmead.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=244&Itemid=67

 

[Insomniac]

what he is attempting would be more of a fortified wine

Hardly, fortified wine is mixing a wine with a spirit. Mountain dew is fizzy orange juice with natural flavourings and caffeine. I would put that into the same catergory as a higghly unnatural JOAM type affair, which would certainly be a mead. Not a traditional, but a mead none the less.

 

[funkapottomous]

at least buy some mountain dew throwback so you've got sugar in there instead of HFCS

 

[vahallasbrew2]

Stop callin my mead skeeter pee its experimental mead, I find it insulting, what's a mountain dew throwback? Is that the dew that's all natural or something like that.

 

[brewingmeister]

wine cooler?

throwback is the pepsi term for their products that are made with sugar instead of hfcs.

the dew experiment has been done before;
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/i-want-make-wine-mountain-dew-throwback-228669/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/hard-mountain-dew-experiment-195362/

 

[edmanster]

Here's what ya do... Get a bee hive with a queen and a post mix box of mountain dew.. Spread out the syrup and let the bee's do their work.. You now have mountain dew tainted honey.. Make a mead outta it

 

[vahallasbrew2]

That would be freaking amazing mountain dew flavored honey my god Odin would be proud would that actually work?

 

[Insomniac]

Yes, it would if the bees could be persuaded to use it, but at that point your stretching the definition of honey a bit...

 

[Tyrone]

well, we are stretching out the definition of mead a bit .. I tend to think simply using a percentage of honey as a fermentable does not a mead make as well....

 

[funkapottomous]

Here's what ya do... Get a bee hive with a queen and a post mix box of mountain dew.. Spread out the syrup and let the bee's do their work.. You now have mountain dew tainted honey.. Make a mead outta it

 

[MikeR]

Ideas like this are why I joined HBT, I just love the outlandish stuff that seems to simple in execution!

If you seriously try this, please keep us updated!

 

[vahallasbrew2]

If you seriously try this, please keep us updated!

I'm going to when ever I get my refunds back you bet I am!

 

[ExoticMeadMaker]

make a traditional, mix it with some mt dew or other soda syrup for fountain machines, and carbonate?

 

[huesmann]

well, we are stretching out the definition of mead a bit .. I tend to think simply using a percentage of honey as a fermentable does not a mead make as well....

Well, then, my friend, you and brewingmeister apparently don't think acerglyn is a mead, nor pyment, cyser, or any other melomel.

To brewingmeister: the OP never said he was making a traditional mead. Also, what you describe is a show mead.

 

[edmanster]

What repercussions you think would happen if you boil down a can or 6pack of throwback mt dew to a syrup and throw that in? I dont think there would be enough preservatives to affect fermentation.. Idk what impact on the flavor it would have.. Do they even make the throwback anymore?

 

[funkapottomous]

What repercussions you think would happen if you boil down a can or 6pack of throwback mt dew to a syrup and throw that in? I dont think there would be enough preservatives to affect fermentation.. Idk what impact on the flavor it would have.. Do they even make the throwback anymore?

Si senor.

 

[edmanster]

Yeah, I'm wondering because with most artificial flavoring and such when heated will lead to a astringent/tannin like mouth feel wich would be no bueno!!

 

[WyattFromKansas]

Gross

 

[MikeR]

What repercussions you think would happen if you boil down a can or 6pack of throwback mt dew to a syrup and throw that in? I dont think there would be enough preservatives to affect fermentation.. Idk what impact on the flavor it would have.. Do they even make the throwback anymore?

This is what I was thinking as well, if you get it reduced enough it will just be sugar/flavour/food colouring and perhaps tiny amounts of the other stuff.

This has got me thinking of all sorts of ideas now. What other soft drinks would potentially work well when boiled down and added to a mead...or cider?

What about an energy drink? Turbomead, anyone?

 

[edmanster]

If it's a energy mead you want, I would just throw a bottle of this in at bottling/kegging time
http://m.sodastreamusa.com/product_page.php?pid=19&prodtype=2&catid=2