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Adriaan Foraging Bee
Joined: 18 Jan 2016 Posts: 139 Location: central Belgium
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:30 pm Post subject: easy mead making |
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Hi all,
Last weekend I bottled 12 liter of mead. This was a first for me and I bassicaly followed the instructions in this youtube video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMeSGNBOUP8&t=457s
I used strong tasting honey from last autumn, the mead tasts like a strong slightly sweet white wine with a hint of honey. Very pleasant taste. The color is clear bright yellow.
The simple recipe is:
1 part honey
2 parts tapwater
in total 12 liter
6 gram yeast
6 gram nutritional salt
Mix everything and put it in a clean large glass bottle with airlock, work clean but no coocking is involved.
Let it ferment in a dark cool place until the process stops by itself (about six weeks).
Then put it in bottles ready to drink or store.
As I said, this was a first time for me. Is it beginners luck or is it really so simple?
I would like to hear your experiences
friendly greetings
Adriaan |
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Barbara Site Admin
Joined: 27 Jul 2011 Posts: 1857 Location: England/Co.Durham/Ebchester
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 9:57 am Post subject: |
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I had one attempt at making mead and it was not successful. I only made it to use up the extraction equipment and wax washings. I use it to cook with but it makes me ill to drink it as it is.
Now I just strain the wax washings into an empty plastic pop bottle, put the lid on and leave it at room temperature for a few months and then drink. It becomes a very pleasant sparkling (probably very slightly alcoholic) drink that I can enjoy without any of the messing about with demi johns yeast etc. And it doesn't make me ill like I can get with wine/mead. For me it is all about not wasting the honey in the wash water rather than the actual making of mead though. |
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