In my full life I brew my self mead
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The color is lovely. All mead (honey wine) I saw/drank is much lighter, just basic yellow. What is different about this one?
Also, if you're in NZ I'd really love to join you. Currently autumn here, but not the nice, colorful kind - the wet and gray kind, and I'm at home with the sniffles.
Mead can be made with various spices including tea. There are specific names for these different variations. I don't know if that's why OPs's mead is that color. It could just be the honey.
I did bee keeping for a few years and the honey harvested at the same time from 2 adjacent hives can look very different in color, but even more so based on the time of year the bees made the honey due to the different plants available. I've had honey that was very light in color and some that looked like Guineas when I put it in jars.
Mass produced honey will just blend honey from hundreds or thousands of hives and even from multiple bee keepers. You get a more of an average, which I suppose is better for consistency/predictability in flavor, which would be important for some types of cooking. The flavors varies due to the different plants the bees collected from just like the color.
Yes, some sorts are very dark. But I wonder if you'd ever get that color with honey alone. Well, maybe OP will reveal.
It's a bit dull, it's just a lightly cooked Bochet made with a already dark honey - Rewarewa. Unfortunately it just doen't want to finish clearing so it a bit on the cloudy side
I have another ~50 l brewing at the moment, a sweet Ling Heather, and a Feijoa and Clover
Well, that explains it.