The Making of Strawberry mead.

I now have a blue smurf barrel in my den full of what will eventually be a lovely elixir.

While I was fulfilling my daily work duties. In this case driving around town buying parts, my co-worker wanted to stop by a container business to get buckets to place used oil in.

As we looked about the place, I noticed several 250 gallon white square contaniers, and pointed this out to Bob. He makes wine from his farm every year.

As things would have it the barrel was cheap, 50$. Of course it was used, but came from a food grade source. In this case Clover Honey.

SO he buy this and a couple days later pick it up, along with the blue smurf barrel. The smurf thing held strawberry flavoring, which according to the label was 70% alcohol!!!

The interesting thing about that type of barrel is a *lot* of the original fruit flavor permeates the new contents, which in this case was going to some wine.

The white container was also found to hold almost 4 gallons of honey!!

So with little prompting, I ended up taking home the honey and a fruit flavor barrel!

With Honey at 2$ a pound, the 4 gallons was equal to 45lbs of honey or 90$+ a bargin when we got it and a big container for only 50$. I think the smurf barrel was 5$.

Now I wait impatiently for the next couple months to let this all ferment out into what I hope to be a wonderful Strawberry flavored mead.

I'll keep you Posted.