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Should you make 1 gallon of mead or 5 gallons?

Mead Making and Alcohol Content

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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Mead Making Tools, Products and More

Amazon.com has everything you need to make your own batches of mead. Here is a list of products and my recommendations/suggestions.

There is a kit available that has all the equipment you need (without the wine bottles - you will need 24 of them) If you buy this kit you will still need yeast, honey, water and of course any fruit that you want for your recipe.

Deluxe Wine Making Kit (High Quality and Durable Wine Kit) Our deluxe wine making kit includes all the equipment you need to make six gallons of wine. Our wine makers have hand selected each item for quality and durability. This kit also offers more equipment than other kits that claim to be deluxe. This kit includes an easy use bottle filler and a 1/2 inch auto siphon pump that other wine kits don't offer. In addition, the equipment in this kit will last for years before needing replacing. Use this kit to make excellent wine every time. The kit includes: 7.8 Gallon Fermenter and Grommeted Lid; 6.0 Gallon Glass Carboy, Winemakers Instructions book; No-Rinse Bleach Free Sanitizer; Double Lever Corker; 30 Corks; Large Plastic Spoon; Triple Scale Hydrometer; Econolock airlock; Drilled Universal Carboy Bung; Siphon Hose; Wine Degassing Rod; 1/2 inch Fermtech Auto Siphon; High Quality Easy Use Bottle Filler; Durable Nylon and Wire Bottle Brush; Complete Equipment Instructions, and Complete Wine Makeing Instructions. All at a great price! Want something else? See other products offered by Learn To Brew.

Miller's Honey, Wild, 3-Pound Jar (Pack of 2)

Three pounds of honey is perfect for making a medium sweet one gallon batch of mead. This package contains two 3-pound jugs. If you are going to make a 5 gallon batch of mead I recommend you use between 12 pounds of honey (for a dry mead) and 18 pounds of honey for a sweet mead.

5 Gallon Glass Carboy For Beer or Wine Making - This is pretty much the standard for making a 5 gallon batch of mead. You should get around 20 bottles of mead from this size carboy.

3 Gallon Glass Carboy for Beer or Wine Making -This is a great size if you want to get a reasonable amount of mead yet want to keep the cost down. Depending on the recipe you should get about 12 bottles of mead out of this size carboy.

Carboy Cap - Universal

This goes on the top of your carboy. This cap fits all sizes of carboy. The middle port is where you would put your airlock.

3 Piece Plastic Airlock (Sold in sets of 3)

6.5 Gallon Bottling Bucket with Lid and Spigot for Bottling Beer

Is advertised for beer making but is exactly perfect for brewing 5 gallon batches of mead.

Yay! Amazon.com is finally carrying empty wine bottles for mead making! These 750 ml Claret bottles are exactly the ones I use. I have ordered two cases. Claret Bottles 750ml. Clear Glass, Case of 12

Portuguese Double Lever Corker

Wine Corks (First Quality #8, 1 3/4) These longer corks (1 3/4 inch) are better.

Triple Scale Hydrometer - Product Description
This triple scale hydrometer is 10.5" long and provides specific gravities between 0.990 - 1.160, potential alcohol by volume of 0-20%, and sugar per liter scale of 0-35. The instructions and plastic case are included with this product.

Triple Scale Hydrometer with Thermometer (Thermohydrometer)

Hydrometer Test Jar for Home Brewing or Wine Making 14 Inches Tall Want a neat and clean way to read your hydrometer? This test jar is perfect. Extract a little bit of your mead and put it in this jar. Perfect for testing specific gravity. Just put your hydrometer right in it.

Auto Siphon Pump for Beer or Wine

Makes siphoning easy. Inexpensive way to siphon mead out of the carboy and into a new carboy or bottles. This auto siphon is made for 5 gallon carboys or larger. It won't fit in the 1 gallon jugs.

Wine Thief - This is a handy little device for getting samples of wine, mead or beer out of a carboy. Inexpensive and convenient.

Drilled Rubber Stopper (Carboy Bung Sets of 3) This is a drilled tapered rubber bung for a better seal and holds the airlock securely in place. A curved lip stops the bung from accidently falling into the carboy. All three rubber stoppers are the same size and easily fits all 3, 5, 6 and 6.5 gallon glass carboys.

Lalvin ICV D-47 Yeast A vigorous white wine yeast that will leave a wine very full bodied with enhanced mouthfeel. Accentuates varietal character and contributes ripe tropical fruit and citrus notes. Recommended for Chardonnay and Rose as well as mead, when nutrients are supplemented. Whites, rose, mead.

Lalvin EC-1118 Yeast - AKA Prise de Mousse. Saccharomyces bayanus. A low foaming, vigorous and fast fermenter good for both reds and whites. It is also ideal for ciders and sparkling wines. A very competitive yeast that will inhibit wild yeasts. It will restart stuck fermentations because of good alcohol and sulfite tolerance. This is a very neutral yeast that will have very little effect on the varietal character of the grape. A popular strain that ferments fully and flocculates well producing compact lees. Good for cool fermentations. Champagne, dry reds, whites, ciders and sparkling. 45-95° F (7-35° C)

Lalvin K1-V1116 Yeast - A vigorous and competitive fermenter that, because of its neutral effect on varietal character, is very well suited to fruit wines as well as wines to be made from grapes. Grapes and fresh fruit. 59-86° F (15-30° C)

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