This is a really basic recipe for 1 gallon of butterscotch mead that we're making for christmas this year.

You will need -
1.36 kg honey
3/4 gallon of water
Yeast (I used english ale yeast from a shop near me)
Yeast nutrient
Sterilizer
Funnel
1 gallon demijohn
Air lock
2 large bags of Werther's Original
A large pan

Step 1:

Sterilize everything. Including the airlock and the pan.

Step 2:

Mix the honey with water (1 part honey, all of it, to 2 parts water) and then heat until dissolved. Keep stirring!!

Make sure to use the honey container to pour the water, you want all of the honey.

Step 3:

Smash the Werther's to pieces, then add to the honey water. Really.. the smaller the pieces the better.

Stir this, A LOT, it sticks badly, until all of the pieces have dissolved. This takes a fair while, but keep stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan.

Step 4:

Prepare the yeast - there should be instructions on the packet.

If not, generally, add the yeast to luke warm water with a small amount of sugar (I used the honey water, make sure it's not too hot) and 2 teaspoons of the yeast nutrients, and leave for 15 mins. Stir, a fair amount.

Step 5:

WAIT UNTIL THE HONEY WATER HAS COOLED!! I did not do this the first time, there was no fermenting at all.

Then, add the yeast to the honey water.

Step 6:

Pour the honey water + dissolved Werther's into the demijohn.

Leave some room at the top, roughly just before the start of the neck.

Step 7:

Shake, a lot (carefully), and then seal.

Be sure to put a little water in the airlock.

Now leave until there is about a bubble every minute (probably about 2 weeks), and then syphon it off into bottles. If you want to add carbonation drops, don't use wine bottles. Use bottles that will hold the pressure. I will be carbonating this, and bottling with reusable beer bottles.
If after 2 days or so, there is no sign of fermentation (bubbles, foam etc), try adding a little more yeast and giving it a shake.

(The darker coloured bottle is a batch of plain mead made with greek black honey, it tasted treacley)