We made a trip back to SoCal in August and visited one of our favorite honey vendors, Bennett's in Fillmore. I'm doing a series of varietal meads to showcase the wonderful honeys we got from these fabulous folks. Their avocado honey is a deep amber with a gorgeous, sherry-like quality. The name I finally gave this mead is from Lady Gaga's Aura. I-10 was our regular route into the desert and out of the state on road trips when we lived in SoCal.

Ingredients in this batch

  • 2.75 lbs Bennett's avocado honey
  • ¼ tsp beer yeast nutrient
  • ⅓ batch Lalvin 1122 yeast, rehydrated

Process

Mixed this up on 8/30 with an SG of 1.092. At bottling on 12/5, FG was 1.010 for a 10.8% ABV.