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If it is not clear repeat this step every month until it is clear and then bottle it. Some people choose to boil the honey water mixture to sterilize it but this is unnecessary and will change the flavor of the finished mead.
In a large pot on the stove heat your honey and water until the honey dissolves you will want to bring the mixture about 60 70 degrees.
Honey mead wine recipe. Oxymel another historical mead recipe blending honey with wine vinegar. Pitarrilla mayan drink made from a fermented mixture of wild honey balche tree bark and fresh water. Pyment pyment blends honey and red or white grapes.
Pyment made with white grape juice is sometimes called white mead póbtorak a polish mead made using two units of honey for each unit of water. Ingredients for making 1 gallon of honey mead. 2 1 2 to 3 lbs.
Raw unprocessed honey dry to semi sweet buy here 12 cups of water do not use chlorinated water. If you are on city water use spring water at your local store. In a large pot on the stove heat your honey and water until the honey dissolves you will want to bring the mixture about 60 70 degrees.
Pour this mixture into your plastic primary fermentation vessel. With a large spoon stir the mixture for about 3 5 minutes to allow in oxygen. Now stir in the yeast nutrient and yeast energizer.
Mead is an alcohol made from fermented honey and water. Its nickname is honey wine because it has many similarities to wine such as similar alcohol content however is distinct from wine itself mead is possibly the oldest type of alcohol known to man even older than beer and wine with evidence of its use dating back to 7000 b c. Mix thoroughly until the honey is completely dissolved.
Some people choose to boil the honey water mixture to sterilize it but this is unnecessary and will change the flavor of the finished mead. The added yeast will quickly overwhelm and outcompete any of the wild yeasts present in the honey. Next add wine or mead yeast to the mixture.
Basic mead recipe you can find all of the ingredients and necessary tools for making wine with mead available at ec kraus. Here is a very basic recipe for making mead to get you started. You can also use this recipe as a base line for creating other styles of mead later on.
For 5 gallons of mead. 13 pounds of honey 2 tablespoons yeast energizer. Crush dissolve and add 1 2 campden tablet per gallon to the mead.
Allow the mead to stand for one month in a cool dark place and repeat racking process. If at the end of three months the mead is clear bottle it. If it is not clear repeat this step every month until it is clear and then bottle it.
To make a sweeter mead you just need to add more honey and use a yeast made specifically for sweet honey wine. If you want a dry champagne type of mead you need to use less honey and use champagne yeast. You can even have dry sweet mead.
You get this result if you add more honey or sugar after bottling. Step one soak your honey in water for 15 minutes this will help loosen the honey from its original thickened state. Step two add in one gallon of high quality soft water this needs to be no more than 150ppm th you should also use a sanitized fermenter.
To give you a basic idea of what mead is think of it as honey wine while that may or may not be a gross simplification that is indeed what it tastes like to me. Like wine it is created through a process of fermentation the difference being that mead is made by fermenting honey rather than grapes.