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I have a youtube channel with over 20 Mead Making Videos
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How to stop the ferment of mead
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Should you make 1 gallon of mead or 5 gallons?
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Some information about Yeast The Secret Art of Mead Making Revealed New: 5 Tips for the beginner mead maker It's all about the Honey - A dramatic look at how important honey is in mead making For Beginners: How to make your first and easy 1 gallon batch of Mead honey wine How to make a sparkling champagne style mead How much does it cost to make a batch of mead? I have the cost breakdown here How to make a batch of mead today! The fast, easy, and cheap way to your first batch of honey wine The difference is the honey! A stop motion animation showing two different honeys side by side and how the fermented brew looks Thinking about designing or buying your wine and mead bottle labels? Here is some information about labels and bottles that will help you The Magical Transformation of water into wine with pics How and why to use a hydrometer How to use a wine thief to test your wine or mead Dispelling the Myths about Mead Thoughts about Mead and Wine Making Important note about Sanitizing your Mead making and wine making equipment Learning the art of Patience when making wine or mead How do you know the ferment is working? Discovering Mead Mead by any other name Checking the PH of your Mead to insure good fermentation (video) Making Flavored Meads 
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Using Tea leaves as nutrient in your mead
People often use tea leaves as a nutrient when making mead and it works well. It is a great off the shelf alternative to buying nutrient from a wine supply store. I don't use it very often but it is effective. Anyway I got an email from a mead maker (Mark) who offers some great advice on how to get the maximum benefit from tea leaves. My thanks to him for this terrific advice. He also sent us a great picture of the fermenting mead with tea dust at the bottom of this page.
Here is what he has to say:
My grandmother told it to me. back in 1995.
As you let your "must" "sit" wait for it to get cool just a bit. Then take tea leafs, chop them, or blend the heck out of them till they
are a total powder. When the must has set for about six hours and a bit cool add in the tea leaf "dust". Two thing happen. As we both know
tea leafs help ever thing. Plus is give a massive surface area of the tea powder and the yeast to take a strong host stance. This both adds to the
and makes the yest very very happy.
It is about total surface area. Try it and see how you do. I have just made a must today, and it is doing well. I had to wait. My state has had a massive dry and heat spell, above 90. Now we are cooled off again. Just in time for making mead. I am also
a beekeeper, so I know where the honey comes from.
Of the five gallons I will add blueberry to three gallons of it when the time comes.
The other two I will add a bit of lemon, and let it be.
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