{"id":61,"date":"2007-06-28T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/a-good-deal-on-cherries-and-a-honey-varietal-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T16:15:30","slug":"a-good-deal-on-cherries-and-a-honey-varietal-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/a-good-deal-on-cherries-and-a-honey-varietal-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"A good deal on cherries and a honey varietal dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

An opportunity needs to be siezed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Safeway is having a sale, cherries for $1.49\/lb, and that got me thinking about honey varietals. Let me back up a little. About this time last year, I bought 40 lb of cherries, some from Safeway, and made cherry wine. After I pressed the wine, I made cherry mead in the same way you might make a “second wine.” You make a second wine by adding water, sugar, and acid to the pomace of a wine (so far as I know, nobody calls it the “first wine”). I liked the idea of getting as much use as possible out of the cherries, and decided to use honey instead of sugar. I planned to do the same thing this year, so I’ve been watching for sales on cherries. Now that the sale is on, I realized I was down to my last gallon, give or take, of wildflower honey.<\/p>\n

A dilemma needs to be resolved<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn’t want to use the last of it for the cherry mead (often called “cherry melomel”). Oh, it would make a fine cherry mead, but I thought it would be better for my beer-like mead<\/a>. Why? It’s dark and even seems a little malty to me, so I think it would be a really good match. The problem is that I’ve got to move fast on the cherries; I’ll probably only get such a good price this week, and a quick check of my schedule says that this Friday would be the best day to buy the cherries and make the wine. Because I’m making a cherry mead from the pomace, I want to press the cherry wine early – three days into fermentation. After all, there’s got to be something left in them for the mead. That means I need another gallon or so of honey on Monday. If I use the wildflower honey that I’ve got, then I’ll either need to use a different honey for the beer-like mead or order another five gallons of the wildflower. There’s nothing wrong with that – I like the honey, but I was hoping to try a different kind. Orange Blossom maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An opportunity needs to be siezed Safeway is having a sale, cherries for $1.49\/lb, and that got me thinking about honey varietals. Let me back up a little. About this time last year, I bought 40 lb of cherries, some from Safeway, and made cherry wine. After I pressed the wine, I made cherry mead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-wine","category-mead"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t