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I'm making this Instructable because if you're like me, you've gone to Home Brew shops looking for some recipes/ingredients/advice on making Mead, and...
Step 1. Sterilize everything. All of it. The Carboy, the Hydrometer, the Airlock, the Scissors you use to cut open the Yeast packet, everything. I w...
Add 15lbs of Honey (I used Orange Blossom) But before you do this, remember the recipe calls for a TOTAL of 5 gallons. What I did first was took an o...
Fill Carboy up to the 5 gallon mark with Water.
Add Acid Blend Add 5 teaspoons (1 teaspoon per Gallon). After this, you're going to want to mix up the honey & water. This is probably the hardest pa...
Take a reading with your Hydrometer. The first thing I did was check that my hydrometer was accurate by testing just water and making sure it read 1....
Add the packet of Wyeast Sweet Mead yeast to the mixture. I assume you read the instructions on the packet on how to prepare it. If you didn't, go rea...
Add 5 teaspoons of Yeast Nutrient. Yeast doesn't exactly "thrive" off honey, and any help you can give it to grow and be healthy is good for the Mead....
For a good 5 minutes, too. This will continue to mix the honey up and get the yeast to spread out, while aerating it. I recommend sitting down with it...
Find a warm place (about 70 degrees) to let it sit. The warmer it is, the faster the fermentation (although some say the quality tends to be worse). T...
6 months later, I racked into some nice Bellissima bottles and made up some nice labels. It finished really clear, and is a hair on the dry side, but ...
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