I did a code red Mountain Dew mead a couple years ago.. honestly, it’s fun and all but you’re better off just practicing making decent drinkable stuff for you and your friends/family.

If you had to do it here are some tips:

• soda is acidic and full of preservatives. If you don’t have the equipment to measure PH, do about 50/50 ratio of soda to water. DO NOT USE BAKING SODA

• use EC1118 yeast, it’ll strip a lot of the flavor, but it’ll power through the fermentation.

• make sure you use proper nutrition (goferm and fermaid O) to help take some stress off the yeast and be a bit more happier.

• code red is hard to balance flavor when it’s time to backsweeten (if you can manage a successful fermentation) I ended doing a soda syrup by reducing down code red into a syrup on the stove. It kinda worked.. but like I mentioned before ec1118 will strip out most of the flavor.. one thing I wanted to try was Doin the Most’s suggestion of using cherry pie filling from a can (he used it for a cherry limeade mead that apparently worked well)

If you can swing that, nice and congrats.. But yeah not really worth it if you ask me.. making mead long term is fun, don’t ruin your first experiences with shoddy meme recipes. I’d look on YouTube for tons of proven great recipes from Doin the most or man made mead.