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submitted 4 days ago by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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Mead is essentially just water mixed with honey that is left to ferment after adding yeast, resulting in what is also called ‘honey wine’, with an ethanol content of usually between 3.5% and 20%. Since soda is mostly water and comes with its own supply of sugar for yeast to feast on, this isn’t such a crazy choice in that respect. Just make sure to remove the carbonation, as the CO2 makes the soda too acidic for the yeast to be happy.

Instead of straight honey, caramelized honey was used for extra flavor after which the brew was left to ferment for a while. For extra flavor notes aged oak, vanilla and cinnamon were added as well, to ensure that the fermentation didn’t erase those core notes of the coke. The result was apparently rather flavorful, with about a 10.5% ethanol content, receiving the full approval of both tame test tasters.

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[–] MuteDog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

seems like a waste of honey? can you really even taste the honey behind all of those flavors? Can you just use cheap sugar and get basically the same result.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

No idea, just thought it was interesting and looked like an easy thing for a first time homebrewer. The guys in the video operate a honey farm, so I'm inclined to think they know what they're doing (or at the very least don't blink at wasting honey lol).

[–] robsteranium@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

You can get a cola cordial from a supermarket near me and I tried putting this in a few brews.

Once the sugar has gone it ends up tasting unpleasantly tart and chemically.

If I wanted to try this again I think I'd try getting the kola nuts directly and maybe adding the citrus flavour with peel instead of juice.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I tried brewing an ale once using a bunch of Coca Cola in the grain bill. I naively thought it might give some of those nice spice notes alongside an otherwise mild beer.

I was wrong. It was disgusting. The whole keg went down the drain.

Now, as a mead? Interesting! And far less stupid than putting it in a beer.

[–] ZebulonP@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Not quite the same, but a sorta popular drink in Germany mixes coke with a wheat beer, called colaweizen. Its....unique. I didn't hate it though.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

It’s mostly sugar, I’d figure getting the water out and fermenting it could make a weird rum?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Is there a full recipe somewhere? Curious to try