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I have already made a 5 gallon batch of mead using cranberry honey, Wyeast Sweet Mead yeast, cranberry juice, water, and cranberries. It is very sweet, and very good. Only about 4 months old right now, but already delicious enough that I've drunken about a gallon so far. But now I want to make a more traditional mead, and figured I'd go with a dry mead.
My plan is to make a 5 gallon batch of dry mead using Wyeast Dry Mead 4632 and about 15-16 lbs of Buckwheat honey from the Bee Folks. Water and nutrition, and that's it.
I want it strong, and I don't want it overly sweet, like my other mead. Mostly, I want it tasting traditional, like something I'd imaging Beowulf drinking in the mead hall. But, at the same time, I want it to have somewhat of a honey character. From what I've read on Wyeast's website, their dry mead yeast will not leave any noticeable honey character to the finished product.
So, after stabilizing the mead, would it be acceptable to add more honey, to bring that honey character back into it?
I have already made a 5 gallon batch of mead using cranberry honey, Wyeast Sweet Mead yeast, cranberry juice, water, and cranberries. It is very sweet, and very good. Only about 4 months old right now, but already delicious enough that I've drunken about a gallon so far. But now I want to make a more traditional mead, and figured I'd go with a dry mead.
My plan is to make a 5 gallon batch of dry mead using Wyeast Dry Mead 4632 and about 15-16 lbs of Buckwheat honey from the Bee Folks. Water and nutrition, and that's it.
I want it strong, and I don't want it overly sweet, like my other mead. Mostly, I want it tasting traditional, like something I'd imaging Beowulf drinking in the mead hall. But, at the same time, I want it to have somewhat of a honey character. From what I've read on Wyeast's website, their dry mead yeast will not leave any noticeable honey character to the finished product.
So, after stabilizing the mead, would it be acceptable to add more honey, to bring that honey character back into it?