Has anyone got a recipe for honey mead they would like to share, I have an abundance of honey so would like to give this a go
icewarior,
Jan 22, 6:15am
has no one got a good recipe!
jessie981,
Jan 22, 6:22am
Off here from 2011
Mead Tried and tested, this is adapted from an old Jacobite recipe for a 23 litre homebrew keg using an airlock stopper
4 ½ kilos of honey Good clean fresh water.preferably not chlorinated tap water 2 teaspoons of ground kelp Juice of 2 dozen grapefruit Grated peel of 2 grapefruit 1000mg vitamin C.to give the yeast a good start 1 sachet .about 1 ½ teaspoons of beer brewing yeast
Dissolve the warmed honey in about 4 litres of the water.do not heat too much, just warm it to dissolve the honey. Funnel this mixture along with the grapefruit juice, kelp and peel into the keg. Add enough tepid water to fill the keg, leaving a gap at the top so the peel doesn’t block the spout of the airlock.the temperature should be around 20C. Add the vitamin C and the yeast at the end. Install the airlock stopper filled with water.
The brew will start up over night and take between 2 and 5 weeks to brew out depending on the room temperature.our keg sits on top of a little shelf unit that I use for bread making.it has a low watt light bulb in it.the mead usually sits around 24C.when the stopper has stopped bubbling the mead is ready to bottle.my favourite is to settle it in another keg for 5 months then bottle for a wine style mead.although we always do a few ‘quart’ bottles of bubbly mead.you just add a teaspoon of sugar to each quart bottle then cap them.you need to make sure you’ve brewed out the honey well or the bottles will explode with the extra sugar you add.they take a couple of weeks to get a bubble in them.you can bottle it without adding anything and this will give you a slightly sparkling mead that will last for about 6 months after bottled and then go flat.it’s still ok to drink though.
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maryteatowel1 (114 )10:28 am, Tue 25 Jan #8 Have a friend who makes it with a bottle of Whiskey. Don't know amounts but he lies the bottle on its side & turns regularly.
icewarior,
Jan 22, 6:27am
sounds good ,thank you
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