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Making Mead Made Simple
(a simple mead recipe)

Mead is an ancient drink, a drink of legend, made by the vikings, the Celts and the Baltic nations long before modern brewing came into quiddity. Blaand  is another ancient alcoholic drink you may wish to try to make, but for now - back to mead!

There are so many variations of mead today, each region has developed a unique style of making it, from distilling honey to give a 70% alcohol mead, through to using naturally occurring wild yeasts. Some people flavour it with herbs or berries, others enjoy it just as it is.
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Below is my video for a very basic, yet simple mead:-

​Ingredients:-

  • 2kg (+/-) according to desired sweetness of runny honey
  • Desired spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • Water to 1 gallon
  • Yeast and Nutrient

Method:-

  • Pour your chosen amount of runny honey into your big saucepan
  • Add spice (cloves and cinnamon) 
  • Pour over 1 gallon of boiling water and simmer for 45 min - 1 hour
  • Give the occasional stir
  • When cool, add your yeast and nutrient
  • Pour into sterilised demijohn and fit an airlock
  • Set aside, and wait for the fermentation to begin.
Fancy giving homebrew a try?

A simple starter kit will help you on your way:

Shop at Ebay  for homebrew kits.
Or try my recommendation from Amazon.

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    • About Us >
      • First Time Pregnant
    • Contact Us
  • Wine List & Recipes
    • Banana Wine Made Simple
    • Blaand
    • Blackberry Mead
    • Christmas Pudding Wine!
    • Chocolate Wine
    • Easy Rhubarb Wine
    • Gorse Flower Wine
    • Gutsy Ginger Wine
    • Liquorice Wine
    • Mead Making Made Simple
    • Melon Wine
    • Mint Wine Recipe
    • Mushroom Wine
    • Nasturtium Leaf Wine
    • Nettle and Mint Wine
    • No Boil Rhubarb Wine
    • Orange Wine
    • Lemon and Ginger Mead
    • Pear Wine
    • Pine Needle Wine
    • Pumpkin Wine
    • Rose Hip Leaf Wine
    • Red Kidney Bean Wine!
    • Rose Petal Wine
    • Rhubarb and Apple Wine
    • Seaweed Wine
    • Spiced banana wine
    • Sticky Toffee Pudding Wine
    • Turnip and Red Cabbage Wine
    • Wine Making 101
    • What is a country wine?
    • ​Can I use bread yeast to make wine?