Ok I would liek to make my own mead. I own never brewed anything before so I woudl close to to start w a fairly simple recipe & process. Id prefer a moderatly sweet recipe that can I don`t know be brewed in 6-9 months time.
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Oh what a wonderful hypothesis! I love mead - it is actually what my closing name comes from!! I hold found a website (listed below) with several variety of mead and recipes for them Scroll down going on for halfway for the recipe menu - I come about to be a BIG fan of the "I am not a crook - Cranberry Mead."
Best of luck, and delight in!!
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I haven't made mead in a long time but hers's a site that I muse will help you on your first load
http://home1.gte.net/richwebb/meadgide.htm
http://historymedren.about.com/cs/foodandfamine/ht/brewmead.htm
http://www.brewmead.com
http://www.destinyslobster.com/asatru/mead.html
This is most probable more info than you want, but better more info than not enough
well brought-up luck and Cheers
I BOUGHT THIS IT WAS VERY SIMPLE AND TASTED DELISIOUS JUST GO HERE AND YOULL GET WHAT YOU NEED
WWW.MRBEER.COM
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STRAWBERRY MEAD
Gallons: 1
Ingredients
5 lb. strawberries
3 lb. honey
3/4 tsp. yeast nutrient
1 tsp. acid blend
1/4 tsp. irish moss
6 cups of hose
1 pack red star champaine yeast
optional :-
pectine enzime (helps to achieve that red glass resembling clearness
Method
Boil and skim honey/water mix in pot for 15 mins.
Let cool to 160 degree and add chopped strawberries (1/4" pieces).
Continue to cool until temp nontoxic to pitch yeast.
Rack for the first time after the friut has lost most of its color and give a little pectine enzime, something like 5 drops works for me, keep racking as sediment builds up on bottom. Should be as clear as cup after about 65 days (from pitching).
P.S. Through painstaking research I enjoy found that if a small amount of godiva chocolate liqure is sipped and mixed with a drink of strawberry mead (mine works) it brings a BIG SMILE to the drinkers frontage and has cause some wemon to swoon.
QUICK MEAD
Gallons: 1
Ingredients
2-3 cloves
2 sticks of cinnamon
2 thin slices of ginger
2-4 teaspoons of ginger peel
2 lbs. honey
1 pack yeast
1/4 cup vodka or particle alcohol
Method
In a 1-gallon pot, simmer cloves (lightly cracked), cinnamon (broken), and ginger.
Add orange coating. The amount of orange coating will vary
depending on type of honey used. Use smaller amount orange coat with ginger blossom honey, for example.
Simmer.
Add water to bring volume to 3 quarts. Return to simmer.
Add honey, stirring constantly. Do not boil!
Skim sour any white scum. If rabble is yellow, lessen heat. When no more trash forms, remove from heat, cover pot, and go off overnight.
The next hours of daylight, strain to remove as much spice particles as possible.
Pitch yeast.
Replace pot cover.
Twelve hours subsequently, rack mead to 1-gallon jug, departing dregs of yeast.
Top off carafe, bringing to base of collar.
Take a piece of clean broadsheet towel, fold into quarters, and put over mouth of water jug.
Seal with rubber company.
Ferment for 36 hours, replacing paper towel whenever it become fouled.
Refrigerate 8-12 hours.
Rack to new carafe and put back surrounded by refrigerator for 12 hours.
Add 1/4 cup vodka to kill yeast.
Rack to fresh decanter.
Refrigerate 3-4 days.
Bottle.
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/pipexdsl/q/aqrx09/easyhomebrew/beerrecipes.html
please as a homebrewer stay away from the guy with the mr.beer intermingle, nothing upright can come from that.
northern brewer will treat you right
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http://northernbrewer.com/mead.html