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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

How to sweeten mead

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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This is page 4 of pictures submitted by web visitors. Mead is a fast growing hobby and lots of people are very much enjoying it. I have plenty more pictures: Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 -Page 4 - Page 5

 

 

Here are a couple of pictures of mead made by Matthew. My thanks to him for submitting! The dark mead is Buckwheat honey and the light one is wildflower. The picture on the left is when first mixed and the pic on the right is 11 days later.

 

Here is a picture of mead made by Eric! This is after the first racking. And wow, does it look good or what?

Eric's Glowing Mead

 

Here are some pictures of mead made by Thomas. (the darker one is made with acasia honey while the lighter one is made with flower honey).

sediment mead

 

 

Here is a picture of a pumpkin mead submitted by Rick. He calls it a Sweet Nectar! This picture was taken 48 hours after it was mixed and at the time it was very active. Here is what Rick has to say about how he made it:

Yesterday I made up my mead.  Here are the steps that I used

1 gal spring water brought to a simmer then removed from the heat
3 lbs Wildflower honey added and stirred for 5 minutes to incorporate
then returned to heat and brought back to a boil slowly Once at a boil,
I slowly brought it back to a good simmer and skimmed the foam for about
10 minutes At the 10 minute mark I add 1 can (15 oz) of pumpkin and 1
1/2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice, this simmered for 5 minutes Placed
in ice bath unitl temp reached 73 degrees Funneled into a 1 gallon
carboy Added 1/4 orange peel without the pith (the orange was small,
that is why I used 1/4 instead of 1/5 as you recommended) I capped it
and shook it for about 1 minute Added the yeast straight from the
package (Lalvin D-47) and recapped and shook again for 5 minutes (hell
of a workout to say the least) Airlocked it and it is sitting in the
pantry

Now for the hard part, waiting and racking, waiting and racking again,
the more waiting.

Pumpkin Mead

Here is an update on some Pumpkin Mead made by Rick. At the bottom of this page is more about this mead. He submitted to me a new picture of his mead and I wanted to show it to you side by side with an older picture so you could get a good look at how mead develops and clarifies over time. The picture on the left is the new picture after racking and on the right is the mead when it was first mixed.

Here is a picture of mead that was submitted by William M. It looks delicious! He used my Orange Mead recipe and here is what he has to say about it:

Hey! I figured you'd like to see a pic so I attached one. I'm a little worried my oranges might dry out and mold so I may try to sink them tomorrow or remove them...I don't want an overpowering orange taste. I'll definitely taste the mead when I rack...good idea. Thanks again for your advice, I'll keep you updated!

These two pictures are of mead making submitted by Cristobal F. They look absolutely fantastic! From left to right these meads are: Apple, Strawberry, Chestnut and Tangerine (Or Mandarin Orange).

Some Notes from Cristobal about these:

"All four of the flavored meads clarified better than the regular mead recipe, I think its because the yeast attached itself to the particles of fruit in suspention when the main fermentation was over. And the chestnut mead loose all their distinctive flavor , leaving a different, strange to identify taste behind, altough it isn´t bad at all... just strange... I took your standart recipe of flavored orange mead, adapted for 5 liters, replaced the yeast for a champagne yeast (Which i do not recomend unless you want a VERY strong and dry mead, however you can add more honey later) and added the equivalent in weight of oranges in other fruits... strawberries give an amazing colour to the mead , and the strong yeast made the strawberry flavor smooth."

 

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