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I have a lawn full of white clover flowers. Is it suitable for winemaking? Seems a shame to waste them
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Might be good for mead...
Stick a hive in the middle of the lawn and Bobs your uncle
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Not seen any recipes that use clover directly - you'd normally need to get some bee's to "do their stuff" (honey is basically "bee puke"Originally posted by seebee View PostI have a lawn full of white clover flowers. Is it suitable for winemaking? Seems a shame to waste them
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You're on the right track about the bee's - as above. Though it's fair to point out, an average garden lawn full of clover still won't make "clover honey", you'd find that it'd basically help toward straight "wild flower".Originally posted by Zebedee View PostMight be good for mead...
Stick a hive in the middle of the lawn and Bobs your uncle
If it's fresh and hasn't been messed around with too much, then it can make good mead. If it comes in jars with supermarket labels on it, then it's best suited either on hot buttered toast or for making one of the mead derivatives like pyment (with grape juice), cyser (with apple juice), metheglin (with spices) etc etc etc. I'm sure you get the idea.
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p.s. To get some idea, just look at the recipes that Stockey DAW has posted.Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
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Hi,
I think the bees to make honey was a joke. I can only seem to find red clover wine recipes, for example:
But I can see no reason why it shouldn't work for white clover. I've just come back from a holiday in Ireland, and there was shedloads of red clover to be found, but I had never actually smelled it before. Up close, the smell is absolutely wonderful, and the white clover seemed very similar. It's worth a try ...
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Originally posted by fatbloke View Post
Somehow.......
bee puke doesnt seem as attractive a proposition
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Of course it doesn't, but that's why "they" give stuff such nice names.......Originally posted by lockwood1956 View PostSomehow.......
bee puke doesnt seem as attractive a proposition
Some of my favourite "nice names" are E202, E223 and E224
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they do however, sound strangely attractiveOriginally posted by fatbloke View PostSome of my favourite "nice names" are E202, E223 and E224N.G.W.B.J.
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