Thanks Psicko
Will give it a try
If you have a place to buy homebrew stuff at, get a gallon jar, a rubber stopper with a hole and a water lock.
I don’t think you should over complicate it for your first batch … Try one of the quick mead recipes and just use 2/3 litter bottles with a balloon, and regular bread yeast.
If the product is to your liking, then great. If not then you can start making changes and investing in better raw materials.
I would recomend to stay away from regural bakers yeast if possible, because honey (even diluted is quite stressfull enviroment for yeast). I would recomend to use champagne yeast with some nutrients strated on apple juice or something. and of course use cleanest utensils as possible to avoid contamination. Jack
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im a kit brewer. i enjoy it. id love to try extract brewing someday… gonna put some beer on today actually !. i brewed a mead or two after reading cara schulzs book on foolproof mead making. its a real quick and easy mead but very nice.
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Haven’t made mead but my wife and I do make wine from the fruit trees on our property. Though it’s somewhat mead-like in that I add enough sugar to start for it to get to 13% alcohol without the fruit. With grape wine yeast, usually 3-4 5 gallon buckets. I can’t stand the stuff until I’ve racked it a couple times to settle out the momentous amounts of yeast. Feels good not to waste all those buckets of pears though
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I seem to remember somewhere reading that today’s mead may not be like the old kind, as somewhere was written something about frothing horns of mead.