Hey everyone
I took a taste test of the cucumber brew today. I hope everyone can re-cap on how my first taste test went when the brew was full of yeast still and a week old. I will now attempt to explain what happened and how this tasted for comparison.
I took a single shot out for tasting and put it in the freezer to get nice and cool. I wanted the best scenario for this taste test. On the nose it was definitely cucumber. The mint & lime juice was completely overpowered. But I must say. Even though I associated cucumber with the smell it did seem "different". Again I reference back to kind of like pickles with no vinegar.
I did not take the whole shot but took a half and swished in my mouth a second to get a taste. So if you took a cucumber and striped it of all that was good and holy and left the corrupt and vile defilement of the devils garden. That’s what I got. I again spit out the drink and when air hit my mouth it only got worse and I gagged several times. I ran to the kitchen to grab something to put in my mouth to stop the horrible injustice upon my taste buds. I saw a can of 7UP and thought will take too long to pop the can then saw some strawberries in the bottom of the fridge. I flipped the plastic lid and grabbed a strawberry and shoved it in my mouth quickly.
BUT AGAIN a sweet sour mush entered my mouth and I spit the strawberry only to see it has molded on the bottom. I scram out in anger and went back to the 7up and took the time to open it and swish my mouth out several times.
Uggggggg!
Vahalla I think you do this to see me in anguish
So I signed up with this experiment and put together a recipe I figured would give a worse case scenario and truly show if there is any benefit from using cucumber. From what I have seen, tasted, vomited, gagged & cried over I think cucumber is a dead end. I do honestly love cucumbers but they belong in salads. You can probably garnish a really dry traditional mead with a slice of partially frozen cucumber for a nice cool refreshing bite after a hot drink. But to ferment it and drink the cucumber..... NO Sir. I think I am done with this. I have some oil stains on the drive way I think I can clean with this stuff lol. It will be put to some use.
Oh but lets keep this thread going. Someone else make a cucumber mead and let’s see where that goes. Cheers