Recipe for a watermelon mead?

[vahallasbrew]

I about tp start up a another batch and i wanted to try a watermelon mead if this is even possible but i dont know what else to put in it besides watermelon could i put like some kiwies in it or something any ideas or recipies would be awesome.

 

[lawpaw]

My only suggestion is to use only watermelon juice and to make sure it is a ripe juicy watermelon.

You can just cube them and the yeast/booze will turn it all to juice. Makes reading gravity difficult though.

Made two batches a watermelon wine this year using just juice. One is one of the best white wine I've tasted. The other tastes a little rindy. It can be hit or miss.

 

[Bugeaud]

It's probably less a problem in mead, but in watermelon wine you need to find the juiciest ripest watermelons to get it to have any substantial watermelon flavour. I've pondered to idea of boiling down watermelon juice though.....

 

[turtlescales]

Is watermelon juice concnetrate available? I wonder if you could freeze concnetrate juice, take the initial layer of ice off the top before the entire thing froze and how effective that might be.

 

[lawpaw]

I should add that I made an F-pack for my good wine, but it was still better before that addition.

I think the watermelon flavor gets largely destroyed during fermentation, but can be brought back with a little sweetness and some more juice post fermentation.