Mead and Cider (and Peary too) Mmmmm

**MMorgan** · 5th November 09, 04:39 PM

being an avid brewer a mead is the one thing i have not gotten to do yet.... mostly due to the price of bulk honey lol

i am very jealous of all of you and your meads!!!!!!!

that being said a do have a very nice apflevien (apple wine) thats basicaly just a really big hard cider... 5 gallons o cider and 2 pounds brown sugar pushing 10% and it is very lovely.....

**NewEnglander** · 5th November 09, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by MMorgan

being an avid brewer a mead is the one thing i have not gotten to do yet.... mostly due to the price of bulk honey lol

i am very jealous of all of you and your meads!!!!!!!

that being said a do have a very nice apflevien (apple wine) thats basicaly just a really big hard cider... 5 gallons o cider and 2 pounds brown sugar pushing 10% and it is very lovely.....

If you want to try a super simpler mead for beginners, check out the link to Joe's Ancient Orange Mead that I posted a few posts back. I've made it a few times and it's always come out well, if you follow the directions exactly.

**MMorgan** · 6th November 09, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by NewEnglander

If you want to try a super simpler mead for beginners, check out the link to Joe's Ancient Orange Mead that I posted a few posts back. I've made it a few times and it's always come out well, if you follow the directions exactly.

i will look up the recipe but like i said its the costs o the damned honey around here more then anything

meads dont scare me lol about as simple as it gets.... take a bunch o honey and some water and throw in some nutrients pitch yeast and leave it alone

..... not nearly as complicated as doing a three step triple decoction mash

**jkane** · 6th November 09, 08:05 AM

Buying honey in pints is very expensive. Find a bee keeper, or go to a farmers market. Talk to the keeper. Tell them you want to make a mead, nto spread it on your toast. ;) They will usually have an interest in that idea. When you start buying a gallon at a time, the price starts to drop drastically. I find that 5 gallons is the next big price drop. That is why we make 4-5 batches at a time. 5 gallons of honey is 4 batches of mead! You should be able to get it down to $3.00 a pound. Some will even go down to $2.00 a pound if you sweet talk them. Offer a couple bottles of the final product. That greases the skids sometimes too. That's how I get cranberries! I pay the grower with mead.

Franklin Ohio? As in just south of Dayton? We'll be driving through there on the way to my wife's family late next month. Well, maybe not quite. We usually take 35 east instead of heading through Cincinnati and down along the river. That is a nicer drive, but takes much longer. She has sisters in both Dayton and Cincinnati.

**NewEnglander** · 6th November 09, 08:32 AM

I've found mesquite honey at Trader Joe's in larger containers (3lbs, perhaps) at a decent price.

**jkane** · 6th November 09, 12:52 PM

I usually don't endorse places, but why not ... This is where we got the honey from this year. They ship too. They let us sample each honey before buying so we could know what it taste like. They met my wife and I at work over lunch with samplers. Really nice people!

http://www.luscioushoney.com/MeadMakers.htm

$45 for 15 lbs. Not that much more than a 5 gallon batch of beer after paying for all the hops at today's prices!

**MMorgan** · 9th November 09, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by jkane

Franklin Ohio? As in just south of Dayton? We'll be driving through there on the way to my wife's family late next month. Well, maybe not quite. We usually take 35 east instead of heading through Cincinnati and down along the river. That is a nicer drive, but takes much longer. She has sisters in both Dayton and Cincinnati.

yup just south o dayton and north o cincy lol pretty much smack dab in between... Franklin is pretty much an armpit and wouldnt recommend anyone living here.....
my girl lives in xenia which if your going 35 east you drive pretty much right through