Sep 29, 2008 · Haven't had a lavender mead, but last year Dave Wills made a Blonde Ale for the local lavender fest. HoV had a meeting at his brewery and he had us sample three different levels of dry 'hopping'. He also had some of his IPA that he added lavender to, very strange. The Blonde worked fine though.

Dec 28, 2019 · Lemon Lavender Mead(Metheglin) 5 gallons of water 18 pounds of clover honey 5 lemons worth of zest 1 pound of lavender 4 bags of black tea for the Tannins 10g Lavlin d47 or maybe Wyeast 4184(I used LALVIN EC-1118 for my last mead but I think I got lucky with my results) Target OG: 1.124 Estimate FG=1.02

Jun 29, 2015 · Once the mead finished the lavender had a perfect tertiary flavor that complimented very well. I wouldn't go too much more than 1/4 cup for a 5 gallon batch. I was using Lalvin EC - 1118 yeast is I was shooting for about 18% alcohol, but for most dark berry recipes I'd recommend Lalvin 71B-1122 vice D47.

Sep 26, 2009 · My housemate brewed a lavender beer awhile ago, pretty much to experiment and use up all of his leftover ingredients; I thought it tasted fantastic; practically a laundry list of roasted malts and adjuncts, incl. Munich, British crystal, chocolate malt, roasted barley, flaked barley and flaked wheat, lightly hopped with Willamette and 3/4oz ...

May 2, 2017 · So far the best ones I've used 2 tbs lavender/gallon in the secondary. 4 is a bit too strong of a flavour, 1 is quite subtle. I did end up doing a milk lavender stout and it was quite good. My first lavender beers were in a wheat, which …

Oct 1, 2014 · Let's say 4 ounces of mead, and 4 grams of lavender. I'll do the infusion and drink it.. If I like it then I know how much lavender I will need for my batch (in this case it's 1 gram of lavender/1 ounce of mead for a total of 128 grams of lavender. So knowing how much I need for my overall volume I need then to make a concentrated extract.

Mar 15, 2011 · I'd like to brew an orange blossom honey mead with lavender and vanilla. I am also considering adding some sweet orange peel to bring out the orange, but overall I am looking for both citrus and floral flavors, hopefully to be mellowed somewhat by the vanilla.

Jan 15, 2015 · Just thinking aloud here, but what if you made say, a gallon of jasmine tea and used that tea to dilute say 2.5 - 3lbs of a light flavored honey (clover or wild flower, perhaps) and then use a yeast such as K1 or 71B or D47 and ferment at lower rather than high temperatures (to preserve the aromatics and flavors in the tea).

Mar 17, 2012 · I made a lavender chamomile belgian table beer last summer, I used a .5 ounces chamomile flowers and culinary lavender @5 mins and wanted a bit more lavender flavor so I made a couple cups of a lavender tea with .25 ounces lavender and added that at bottling. now after ~ 8 months in bottles I'm really happy with the complexity of the flavors as they blend, but it took a bit of waiting.

Jun 12, 2019 · Finished my lavender. The lavender was just right. I used 3 grams of lavender flowers, and 1 gram of lavender leaves. This was fresh lavender picked from the garden. I steeped the lavender at 160F for 10 min along with 0.5 Oz …