;D I haven't yet managed to age one more than a year so I need to ask how much aging is required?
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;D I haven't yet managed to age one more than a year so I need to ask how much aging is required?
It depends on the honey and the techniques. Does wine taste like grape juice? No, atleast not good wine! Dry meads don't taste like honey (for a while) but are distinct based on variety of honey, and are typically very floral.
A year is when they start to get good in my opinion. At that point it is a test of patience, and an art in not drinking them too fast.
A year is when they start to get good in my opinion. At that point it is a test of patience, and an art in not drinking them too fast.
Let me clarify this a bit. Like traditional meads, it can take 12-18 months for the honey aroma to come back fully in a dry melomel. How much it shows depends on the honey and the recipe. Bland processed honey is going to show less. Recipes that are very heavy on fruit may bury the honey and be a lot more like a fruit wine. I've done this with big red, berry melomels (like 4 pounds of fruit per gallon) and I don't mind fruit-dominant batches like that. If I wanted the honey to show more, I could simply back off the fruit, or backsweeten a little. You can tweak it to get the results you want.
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