Brew Your Own Mead - Make Honey Wine at Home - FULL Process
How to Make your First MEAD. Simple First Timer Mead Recipe. From Fermentation to inebriation, or start to drinking. Mead isn't so difficult to make as some might lead you to believe. It's really quite easy to make your first mead at home. This beginner mead recipe uses ingredients you can probably find at your local grocery store. Make sure you make mead with a good quality honey though, as the old saying "garbage in, garbage out", still applies.
While this is a beginner mead recipe, it's still one of my favorite meads, and I still make it, exactly like we do in this video, simple mead does not mean bad tasting mead. Sometimes, simpler is better. Can you alter this recipe? Of course. It's a guideline for making your first mead, but you can tailor it to suit your needs as you learn how it works. That said, we urge you strongly to follow it as closely as possible your first time or two making mead for yourself as there's a few concepts that are important to understand before branching out and experimenting.
Happy MEAD making!
Ingredients:
3 lbs Honey or 1.36 Kilograms (we used Orange Blossom, but Clover or Wildflower would work well too): amzn.to/3ou8d1p
1 cup steeped Black Tea: amzn.to/3JbmN67
1/4 - 1/2 of an orange Zest (we used orange zest that we dehydrated)
1 teaspoon Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast: amzn.to/3uuJq12
2 ounces or 57 grams Raisins (make sure they are oil and preservative free, we used Sun-Maid and chopped them up): amzn.to/3J8cpf8
Water (we used filtered tap water that has the chlorine removed, you are looking to add enough until your mixture goes up to the shoulder of your fermenter)
Beginner Mead Tasting (My First Mead) ONE YEAR LATER!: • Beginner Mead Tasting ...
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