After a few years of making mead, I want to collect everything in one place. In general, the washed wax mead tends to have a strong hive flavor, and pure honey mead is light and doesn’t have that additional funky flavors… Some batches have gotten a “burnt popcorn” kind of …
Washed Wax Mead: Started on 2015/10/11, using “washed wax” method of just adding water to the crushed honeycomb after it drips through to make the honey. 2015/10/11: Initial Gravity: 1.11 Primary ferment ok, strong. (ran some through blender to aerate it) 1 week vacation during primary ferment- no stirring, and …
Notes from the 2014 Mead batch: Followed a similar process as last year, but since one batch was skunked after the full fermentation, I paid more attention to measuring the specific gravity over time, and also keeping the bottles sealed with the airlocks as much as possible. So, this year, …
We had some extra honey from our beehive this year, so we decided to make mead the old fashioned way, with just the natural yeast available in the air and honey. Shannon found an another post online, so before I knew it, she had the honey and water in a …