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So in his book Steve Piatz mentioned a sludge mead which is just combining the cloudy bottoms of a few batches, that you might discard otherwise. I'm wondering if anyone has tried this, and what your results were. I have a bottle from my last few batches setting. Pretty good layer on the...

So I'm finally going to try and make a straight buckwheat honey mead. I absolutely love it for eating/baking, but haven't heard much good about meads. I'm trying 2 batches one with lalvin D47 and one with ec-1118. Both batches made the same as my clover mead that came out awesome. Just some...

I was watching this BBC documentary about vikings and he tried a traditional mead that sounded pretty good, but only listed a few ingredients. And sounds more like a braggot, which I haven't tried as of yet. Basic ingredients named were honey, malted wheat, bog myrtle for bitter and cranberries...

I just bottled this one a couple of weeks ago and I like it so much that I figured I would share (also wish I would've done a larger batch lol). SG: 1.126 - FG: 0.998 3lbs honey ( I used 2lbs clover and 1lb buckwheat) 3lbs frozen blueberries 1 qt pomegranate juice 3Tbsp hibiscus 3Tbsp...

So I've been brewing for a couple of years now (with lots of help from forums, thanks by the way) and I've been wanting to start experimenting with different flavor combinations (I'm a cook so it comes naturally lol). I've been working on a recipe for a little while and any input/recommendations...