NEED HELP ASAP.I BOUGHT EVERYTHING TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRY MEAD

[SIRMIGHTYBALLS]

My question is will any of the ingredients in the chocolate covered cherries hurt the mead,stop germ,kill yeast?

 

[bernardsmith]

Hi SIRMIGHTYBALLS - and welcome. What are the ingredients? Preservatives that contain sorbates will prevent fermentation.

 

[virzik]

Chocolate contains fat that might not taste really good in mead (fat might leave spoil taste in your mead). If you want chocolate taste, I would recommend using fat-free cocoa powder. Haven't used cocoa in mead, but I think mead might not have good place for cocoa/chocolate taste.

 

[OpenSights]

I haven’t made mead yet, even though I have everything for a 5 gallon batch. Taking a chance with 12 pounds of honey... I’m thinking of doing some one gallon batches instead to learn.

I’m posting because I have a chocolate cherry stout ready to rack into secondary. I’m using cocoa nibs, frozen cherries, a local sour cherry pie mix (no preservatives) and some organic cherry concentrate. The cocoa nibs have been soaking in vodka for the last four weeks. Just some ideas.

If you make it, I’ll be interested in your results!

 

[bernardsmith]

Cocoa nibs work well - better, IMO, than powdered cocoa if only because it can take a half a lifetime for the cocoa powder to clear but you might also try using chocolate malt (as in barley grain). There is no cocoa in this malt grain but it does offer a very chocolaty taste. Not certain but the grains are so well cooked that there are no fermentable sugars in this grain.

 

[SIRMIGHTYBALLS]

Hi SIRMIGHTYBALLS - and welcome. What are the ingredients? Preservatives that contain sorbates will prevent fermentation.

The preservatives were my biggest concern.

 

[bernardsmith]

Are there preservatives in chocolate covered cherries? But aside from preservatives I would think that sweet cherries might also be a concern. It's tart cherries that make a better mead or wine. Sweet cherries often make a wine taste like cough medicine.. (not enough acidity in the fruit).

 

[SIRMIGHTYBALLS]

Thanks for the reply,I've decided to go with the blueberry mead recipe a guy put on here