Wednesday 23 January 2013

Mead the drink of the gods.

Whats got me into home brewing is Mead or Honey Wine.

The biggest thing is I love honey dont have it very often but when I do I'm like a cat with catnip.

Basic Mead is just honey, water, yeast and add to a bottle of your choice and away you go.

After my first couple of failures I am now doing alot better.

Thing I did not do was take gravity readings... Ops.

Found a good recipe on www.gotmead.com called JOAM (Joe's Ancient Mead).

This recipe is just put all into 1 Gallon Demijohn and leave till fruit drops (8 Weeks).

Me being me made 5 gallons all in 1 gallon batches. Since then I have done a Chilli (Scotch Bonnet), Line and Ginger Mead. The mistake I learnt from this one is the flavour of the mead blew my taste buds away but it was very nice.

I currently have a 5 gallon JOAM sitting in 1 gallon demijohns read to be bottled soon.

My next mead is going to be a rhubarb mead. mmm

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