Did the honey take any special preparation? I worked at a university & had an opportunity to talk to someone in the Food Science Department. He indicated that the honey needed pasteurization or something before being used for mead. Been a while & I don’t remember all of the conversation.
Never trust anything a cook says unless you run the numbers yourself. ;)
/johnny
Nope my first Mead I used a commercial clover honey. I will use a local filtered honey for my next batch of mead.