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[EWW]

I just found out that a friend picked me up 5 gallons of western Washington wildflower honey since he came across a good deal and figured I'd use it ($22/gallon). I was already sitting on around a gallon and a half, so I find myself with more honey then I know what to do with. Mead shall be made, but what is the question.

Edited by EWW, 14 October 2010 - 08:46 PM.

[EWW]

5#? I assume you mean 60 pounds = 5 gallons?

Yes 5 gallons...it's been a long day. Left the house at 6am and I'm just walking in the door at 8:45pm

[EWW]

I haven't tasted it yet, but where the are kept in an area with a high concentration of berries

Edited by EWW, 14 October 2010 - 09:04 PM.

[ScottS]

Berry honey tends to be really spicey and can almost sometimes have a bit of a gingery hotness on the tongue. Before I got my own bees, my honey supplier serviced all of the berry farms in the area. I used it for everything.

[EWW]

Berry honey tends to be really spicey and can almost sometimes have a bit of a gingery hotness on the tongue. Before I got my own bees, my honey supplier serviced all of the berry farms in the area. I used it for everything.

Nice, so this should work well in the Ginger peach mead that I haven't started yet (fruit is prepped and frozen just haven't thrown it together).

[zymot]

I just found out that a friend picked me up 5 gallons of western Washington wildflower honey since he came across a good deal and figured I'd use it ($22/gallon). I was already sitting on around a gallon and a half, so I find myself with more honey then I know what to do with. Mead shall be made, but what is the question.

I have Rabbit's Foot Meadery local to me. The last mead they poured was tasty. I asked the mead maker what kind of honey it was and he said it was "Wildflower Honey from western Washington."Maybe it is suitable for a straight mead?

[fatbloke]

Damn! with 5 gallons of the stuff, maybe a mel of some sort and a batch of traditional ? After all, if it didn't lend itself to traditional, then you can use that for top ups etc......

[BeesNBrews]

Frankly, a couple of the last group brews were quite good--5 gl of cinnamon vanilla methaglin and 5 gl of fall's bounty cyser should make a dent in the bucket! Store the rest well and repeat next year....

Edited by BeesNBrews, 16 October 2010 - 08:30 PM.

[EWW]

I tasted the honey and brought the bucket home...damn tasty. A little spice but pretty balanced overall. Should be a nice base for a lot of projects. I hope to use all 60# in the next 6 mo.