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kyger

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Any thoughts on bulk honey for a mead base? I came across a few recently purchased unopened pales of honey purchased from:

http://beprepared.com/product.asp?pn=FS H100

I can get some fairly cheap as the seller decided to move and doesnt want to pack them around. It says it is of alfalfa and clover varietal. Would it be worth it to use this as a base honey and backsweeten with "better" or specific varietal honey's? I am getting the buckets at about 1/3 price.
 
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skunkboy said:
Check the source (hopefully printed on the bucket) and see if it is from North America, or see if they are willing to pop the top off of one and let you taste it.
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I don't know about the SuperPail honey but the Dutch Gold Honey is wonderful. Use a lot of their honey for mead.
 
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alfalfa is a pretty strong honey if i recall, like buckwheat, but clover is always good :)

(Someone will correct me if I'm wrong)
 
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Loadnabox said:
alfalfa is a pretty strong honey if i recall, like buckwheat, but clover is always good :)

(Someone will correct me if I'm wrong)
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From their website:

Alfalfa Honey is a very mild, delicate honey. Perfect for sweetening beverages, drizzling over your vanilla ice cream, or making Luella Gamber's delicious Pumpkin Pie recipe.
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So I went ahead and got this jug from the neighbor for $50. It is super sweet and buttery. It actually taste like a buttered biscuit with honey drizzled on it. It is crystalized so I filled 8 one quart jars and set them in warm water and stirred them until liquid again. Back to the point, it tastes and smells amazing and with a little sweat equity its pretty good honey.
 
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It is not nice to gloat kyger and I am down to about 25 gallons myself. Alfalfa is lighter in color than clover and has less pollen taste. Just screw the cover on the jars you are filling tightly and put them in the dishwasher. You will reliquify more easily and will not have the danger of overheating and losing the good stuff. Better yet, just pack it tight and add to your must as is. Unless it is sugared and has a separated liquid standing on top, nothing can live in it.
 
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Vance G said:
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Just screw the cover on the jars you are filling tightly and put them in the dishwasher. You will reliquify more easily and will not have the danger of overheating and losing the good stuff. Better yet, just pack it tight and add to your must as is. Unless it is sugared and has a separated liquid standing on top, nothing can live in it.
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Why go the some length to reliquify ?

So presuming that you want a must that is properly mixed and aerated well....

Just scoop/spoon it out the container and then put it through a liquidiser or food processor with some of the water you intend using, blitz the hell out of it, and it can be added to the fermenter, nicely mixed and all the aeration needed for a good ferment start.....

p.s. Oh and just run some more of the water through the machine, as that will also rinse it out and the "waste water washings" can be added to the ferment.
 
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"Liquidizer" is British for blender, it will work on honey as well as it works on margaritas :)

The only reason I re-liquify honey is if I want to eat it...

I just scrape the jars out into the fermenter with a sanitized spoon and rinse the jar with hot water, shake the hell out of it and dump the water in then mix like hell until I can't see grains of honey sugar on the spoon, it'll eventually all dissolve.
 
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