I've been meaning to get around to making mead.. one of these days!
We made honey beer. I felt it was far too sweet.
Also I thought honey did have tannins? If I recall correctly I'm thinking of one of Dr Jerry Hayes' "Classroom" sections in the American Bee Journal (you get the ABJ right?) where someone was crowing about how they lived next to a sugar factory so their bees had ridiculous amounts of forage, and Hayes wrote back commenting that the processed sugar would have none of the tannins and such found in honey and as such the "honey" the bees produced from it could barely be called honey.
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Re: Drink your honey wine!
Date: 2009-06-28 02:05 am (UTC)We made honey beer. I felt it was far too sweet.
Also I thought honey did have tannins? If I recall correctly I'm thinking of one of Dr Jerry Hayes' "Classroom" sections in the American Bee Journal (you get the ABJ right?) where someone was crowing about how they lived next to a sugar factory so their bees had ridiculous amounts of forage, and Hayes wrote back commenting that the processed sugar would have none of the tannins and such found in honey and as such the "honey" the bees produced from it could barely be called honey.