Dried apricots for mead flavor

[freflow]

Hi
What would be your opinion on adding dried apricots to the fermenting stage or at the end of the fermentation of mead for flavor?

 

[Clarence]

Sounds like a great idea. Check out "melomel" on google. In the days of mead, apparantly, it was common practice to mix fruit with mead to make a melomel.

 

[Druss]

Definitely makes for an interesting mead, I regularly use about a tablespoon of dried tropical fruit per gallon (during fermentation). Works well as a yeast nutrient and imparts some fantastic flavours.

Some of the oldest recorded mead recipes were simply honey, water, yeast and a few raisins.

Personally I find just using raisins gives the finished mead a slightly musty flavour (no pun intended!) but each to their own and all that.