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What to use DME or Honey?
Can someone tell me what goes into a mead starter. I have made beer starters with 1.5 cup DME + 500 ml water + yeast. If I want to make a mead starter, should I use DME or honey? I was reading about using juice, but I hadn’t planned on adding juice to the mead, so I’m unsure if it’s appropriate. Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
ian
Usually you use whatever you're making your beverage out of as your starter (i.e. DME for beer, cider for hard cider, juice for wine), but I don't know how successful using honey for a mead starter will be. I made 5 gallons of mead with 12 pounds of honey in it with no starter and it was fine. Just make sure that you have 1 tbsp of yeast nutrient in it for every gallon of mead and you will be fine. Mead is about patience so hurrying up the fermentation by a few days won't make a difference.
Thanks
ethan
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