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Posted: Sunday Oct 09, 2005 4:55 pm
by grabman
yardglass,
the brew was great, bitter on the tongue but with a slightly sweet honey finish, nice golden colour too!
Would go it again!
Posted: Sunday Oct 09, 2005 5:15 pm
by yardglass
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
Posted: Sunday Oct 09, 2005 6:29 pm
by grabman
was a clover honey I got at local markets, was cheap as well. Shame the stall has gone now!
Posted: Sunday Oct 09, 2005 8:49 pm
by Dogger Dan
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
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 3:59 am
by NTRabbit
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
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 6:59 am
by yardglass
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