Recent content by Gooby_Rastor

Thanks Chemist! That sounds like good advice; I had considered going in the direction of a reduction myself. Sadly, the pear juice I had wasn't going to be pear-y enough (it was only 42% juice, so the missus and I just drank it. Yum), so I'm looking at a different direction. Bananas are real...

Ha, well, I'd misremembered how much honey I'd used at first, and checked my notes on everything but that part. Checking my notes again, the honey was just under 3 lbs. But I still take your point, that I might need to use a fair amount of juice to bring out the pear flavor. And Droc thanks...

Hi everyone. About a month ago I started making my first meads. I used a friend's honey as favors at my wedding, and had a bunch left over. It was either baklava or mead, but mead won out. So I started two batches: A 5-gallon batch aimed at becoming a medium-sweetness straight mead, and a...