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Home-brewers have embraced mead, or honey wine, the drink of choice for many ancient cultures. If you want to whip up a batch of your own, follow these steps.
Making mead, a honey-based wine, can open your world to a whole new adventure in fun experimentation. Create a brew with this recipe, then start designing to your own tastes.
Mead is a sweet, alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water that has a long history and is sure to please most palates. You can find it in stores, or you can make a big batch of it at ...
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Jason Phelps Mead Recipe: Blueberry Blossom Traditional. 5 gallons. 19# of blueberry blossom honey. Water to 5 gallons (some hot, the rest cold) 20 grams of yeast (Lalvin 71B-1122 or Cote de Blancs) ...
It was also challenging to find historically appropriate yeast for the fermentation. Most modern mead makers use commercial wine yeast, per Tarlach, but the 1393 recipe called for beer or bread yeast.
For the uninitiated, mead is a drink made by fermenting honey. Hailed as humanity’s first foray into making alcoholic beverages, mead predates both beer and wine.