Hey everyone,
Just picked up 20lbs of watermelon honey from georgiabees.com.
What to do, what to do?
-Shawn
Just picked up 20lbs of watermelon honey from georgiabees.com.
What to do, what to do?
-Shawn
What to do, what to do?
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Well, if it were me, I'd make mead with it.
Well that's the obvious answer. I was thinking of eating a little bit of it first.
It really is. Go to www.georgiabees.com and get yourself a half-gallon or so. John is really good about getting his honey out to people, and I also understand some of our Florida friends regularly get his blackberry honey and win competitions with it.
Also, the next time I get out to AZ (should be a year or so) I will try to bring a bottle of the mead I make with the watermelon. That is of course I have any left over.
-Shawn
I still can't believe that the honey tastes like the fruit, weird that all the other honeys don't except for this one.
...maybe they're secretly blending in watermelon juice.
If not I'm going to have to put some on my short list for when I start going nuts on varietal traditionals.
...maybe they're secretly blending in watermelon juice.
If not I'm going to have to put some on my short list for when I start going nuts on varietal traditionals.
I don't think he blends in any juice. His honeys have been used for competitions up in FL and as I understand GA had a really rainy spring that made the watermelon crops really go wild. He showed me some pictures of his hives being covered in vines. It was absolutely amazing.
A lot of honeys will retain a flavor of the fruit they came from. The big problem is that normally there are hundreds of different flavors mixed together. Any flowers with in 2 miles of the hive will have there flavors blended into the honey. But this is suppose to be about the mead.
Personally I'm not much of a fan of vanilla with watermelon, but that is me.
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Definitely on my list then, I'll have to get my hands on at least a gallon. Once I get through my yeast tests, some sur lie comparisons and additive tests I'm planning on going all out with varietal traditional, plan on buying enough of every honey I can find to make a 1 gal batch of each. Should get expensive!
