Hi Everyone,
I started a cherry mead yesterday and was thinking about step feeding it since I didn't get close enough to SG I wanted to.
for 4 gallons:
12.5 lbs of Wildflower honey
1 can of vinters harvest sweet cherry
1-250ml of tart cherry concentrate
using EC-1118
I'd like to make this around 18% with a touch of residual sweetness. But after all these ingredients I'm still at 1.112 - which ~15.25%. I don't want to buy more honey and was going to secondary on a ton of cherries. Cherries have a much more milder flavor then I thought and the sugar is a lot lower too.
I was thinking about step feeding with either frozen apple or grape concentrate. Has anyone used concentrate and had nice tasting results? And then I'd use one more can
for the residual sweetness and rack on the cherries.
I started a cherry mead yesterday and was thinking about step feeding it since I didn't get close enough to SG I wanted to.
for 4 gallons:
12.5 lbs of Wildflower honey
1 can of vinters harvest sweet cherry
1-250ml of tart cherry concentrate
using EC-1118
I'd like to make this around 18% with a touch of residual sweetness. But after all these ingredients I'm still at 1.112 - which ~15.25%. I don't want to buy more honey and was going to secondary on a ton of cherries. Cherries have a much more milder flavor then I thought and the sugar is a lot lower too.
I was thinking about step feeding with either frozen apple or grape concentrate. Has anyone used concentrate and had nice tasting results? And then I'd use one more can
for the residual sweetness and rack on the cherries.