Why are brewing results sour with a mix of sugar types?

[timeeeee]

When I make mead, it's consistently sweet or at least tastes like honey.

When I make a beer with DME only, it tastes like beer.

When I combine these recipes and use half honey half DME, it's consistently sour! Why is this?

 

[fluketamer]

welcome to the forum. you are trying to make braggot.

when you make mead the yeast has a tough time fermenting the honey dry so you are left with residual sugar.

probably when you are adding the dme into your must you are diluting the honey and giving the yeast a chance to ferment it out dry.

the other possibility is that you are infecting your braggot with lacto from the honey but i think thats less likely.


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