iso: ideas for using mead - tina

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hi tina,

yes, i got the chaucer's brand. blech.

 

the meads your friends made sound really good.

hopefully, one of these days i can try some homebrewed

mead.

 

thanks for your response.

susie

 

--- Tina LeBouthillier <tinal999 wrote:

 

> If it's the commercial kind, it isn't very tasty, so

> I can understand

> not liking the flavor. I don't care for the

> Chaucer's brand at all. It

> doesn't taste anything like mead should taste! That

> is the only

> commercial brand available here, althugh there are

> some parts of the

> country that do have some good commercial brands.

>

> I know a LOT of home brewers who make it in small

> quantities - all

> varieties - from sweet plain honey mead to a drier

> sparkling kind to

> many different fruit additions. The homemade mead is

> usually really

> good! Once people try it they almost always want to

> have more and many

> will start brewing it themselves. We recently had

> some wonderful

> raspberry mead that a friend just made and I have

> tried hazelnut and

> strawberry-chocolate meads that were great! When it

> is hot here

> (Calif.) in the summer, we sometimes put a scoop of

> vanilla ice cream

> in our friend's sweet honey mead, for a 'mead

> float'! But I wouldn't

> recommend that using the commercial kind though -

> it's too dry and icky.

>

> Regards, Tina

 

 

 

 

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