Anyone make a mead with a wine kit?
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man i wish i could lock my own threads due to my own stupidity and lack of searching skills >.<
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HAHA... I responded and then you wrote the lock thing and it sounded like I was insulting you...so now I'm editing to this. LOL
Ive not made a wine kit before or a mead wine kit. Was curious if you had dont both and if you put them next to each other would you tell the difference? At 100-130 for a 5g batch wine kit thats kinda hard for me to pull the trigger on.
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My first one was a gift that oddly enough lead me to mead instead, it was my first pyment, I've found them discounted to $ 60 or so since a couple of times so I have one more to work with. Fortunately I have a primary big enough.
My first one was a gift that oddly enough lead me to mead instead, it was my first pyment, I've found them discounted to $ 60 or so since a couple of times so I have one more to work with. Fortunately I have a primary big enough.
My favourite white used to be $35 per kit and the Shiraz was around $50, I know the prices have gone up because it's been a while. I've made a few kits to the recipe (some with "fruit packs" of flavoured grape juice you add after stabilizing) and a few not at all to the recipe (don't dilute it to 5 gallons, just 3, and make an ice-style wine, or make your own "fruit pack" with Welch's Raspberry frozen concentrate).
They're a fun place to start and an interesting yet sterile way to learn the basics, or at least the basics of how to rack, how to bottle, how to sanitize... I made one kit and then decided that real fruit was far more fun to play with... then I discovered meads and there was no turning back.
"Pyment-mel compared with wine", it's right there on my to-brew list, and after seeing another user from Alaska do it (Jayich, who hasn't been on in a while) I decided I wanted to do it with a wine kit, make half of it in my ice-style wine and the other half to the same SG but with honey instead of undiluted concentrate.
They're a fun place to start and an interesting yet sterile way to learn the basics, or at least the basics of how to rack, how to bottle, how to sanitize... I made one kit and then decided that real fruit was far more fun to play with... then I discovered meads and there was no turning back.
"Pyment-mel compared with wine", it's right there on my to-brew list, and after seeing another user from Alaska do it (Jayich, who hasn't been on in a while) I decided I wanted to do it with a wine kit, make half of it in my ice-style wine and the other half to the same SG but with honey instead of undiluted concentrate.
