Honey beer recipe

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Sunday Oct 09, 2005 4:55 pm

yardglass,

the brew was great, bitter on the tongue but with a slightly sweet honey finish, nice golden colour too!

Would go it again!

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Sunday Oct 09, 2005 5:15 pm

thanks grabman,
what type of honey did you use ?
i've got a Sunflower/Ironbark Blend that i bought off the markets.

After a search, I read that Dogger says that the Eucalypt Honey shouldn't be a problem. Hope so.

thanks
yardy

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Sunday Oct 09, 2005 6:29 pm

was a clover honey I got at local markets, was cheap as well. Shame the stall has gone now!

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Sunday Oct 09, 2005 8:49 pm

The larger the honey the larger the taste I guess.

I use Billy Bee generic stuff or whatever I can scavange from the locals here.

That sunflower sounds good though

Dogger

NTRabbit · Post by **NTRabbit** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 3:59 am

Ive just made my Mead, bottling it tomorrow - i gave it 8 days with fruit and all in, during which time it bubbled furiously out of the airlock, then racked it to my little fermenter. It bubbled for maybe another 4 or 5 days, then stopped. I figured it was stuck or something, finally got around to checking it tonight.

Was going to stir it up, but luckily decided to grab a gravity reading first - took it just under 2 weeks to go from 1.099 to 1.002 which was markedly faster than i was expecting. Now we play the waiting (aging) game

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 6:59 am

grabman wrote:was a clover honey I got at local markets, was cheap as well. Shame the stall has gone now!

grabman,

thanks for the info,
if this lot goes ok, the stall i got the honey from can supply 5kg or 10kg

in various blends.
(not affiliated by the way)

A Coolibah/Sunflower Canadian Blonde maybe.

yardglass