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I just had a freak accident happen; creating something very delicious.

-I'm in the middle of cold conditioning my Orange Mead (trying to get the yeast to drop out to keep it sweeter and to clarify a bit, even though I know I'll need to warm it back up for the Pectin Enzyme to do its thing.); it's in a corney keg in my new fermentation fridge and I wanted to pull a couple of ml off of the bottom to pull the yeast off the bottom but I only have one serving hose and tap and it's currently full of my Wit from my other keg. I just switched the tap from the Wit keg to the Mead Keg so I ended with a mix of about 50% orange mead (made with bitter marmalade oranges(seville)) and 50% wit and it's effervescent, a BEAUTIFUL light orange color, and just delicious.

The mead (actually a braggot, well it has fruit, too; and I'm not enough of a Mead snob to know what you call a mead made with fruit AND malt...) is now getting a crushed coriander addition to make it a near Wit beer equivalent!

I highly recommend the combination. I think my next Wit will be a Honey Wit as this combination is just TOO tasty!

Adam

Sounds like a very happy accident.

I like the sound of that fridge system - straight to cornie kegs - sounds great - I'm Jealous !
I'm on the BeerKing 5 lit mini kegs, which are fine except I'm not quite sure how you are meant to clean them!
As for mixing meade and wheat beer.. it sounds lovely for a hot day - now - what do we need to get to sort out the weather ??

Sorry- where do you live again?

&amp;quot;Bog_Myrtle&amp;quot;:10qetax2 wrote: Sounds like a very happy accident.[/quote:10qetax2]

And you've got a Rasberry Mead and a Wit beer currently fermenting so you could have a similar and possibly even tastier accident of your own shortly.

-Where do you find your honey for your meads?
The only place I can find even remotely reasonably priced honey is at Tesco (Tesco brand) and I'm sure they've done terrible things to it, so not really the best option to showcase the really delicate honey flavors...

I'm back in the US for a few weeks and I remembered that my grandfather used to keep his own bees when I was little, so I'm going to see if he still knows any bee keepers in the area who could part with a couple of kilo that I could bring back for a spontaneous fermentation project that I'm planning but flying to the US to pickup honey just doesn't seem like a very sustainable option...

Adam

Yes indeed... Might try that.

The honey for this mead came from Lidl, not fancy but there you go. I did get honey from a beekeeper last year and made that into mead but it didn't turn out that well. So I'm doing smaller batches in the hope they'll turn out better.
AFIM is hoping to get bees at some stage so maybe I'll have my own honey at some stage...