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Basic Mead
Photo: Art Rachen

Basic Mead

7 ingredients 7 steps fandom
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

544
Calories
13g
Protein
1g
Fat
113g
Carbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 3 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Honey 1 tbsp (21g) 64
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Meat not in our table 0
Tea not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1,36 kilo honey for a dry mead or
  • 1,8 kilo honey for a medium sweet mead or
  • 2,25 kilo honey for a sweet meat
  • 0,5 teaspoon tanine or one cup of cold tea
  • 2 teaspoons citric accid
  • 1,5 teaspoon yeast nutrient or 2 nutrient tablets
  • 1 sachet Sherry type yeast

Directions

1

In advance, prepare the yeast starter to activate the yeast.

2

Place the honey in the initial fermentation vessel or bucket and make up to 4,5 liters with hot water. Stir well with a wooden or plastic spoon until the honey is dissolved. Cool down to 21° C and add the tanin, nutrient and accid. Stir well to dissolve. When properly dissolved, add the activated yeast. Cover closely.

3

After seven days, rack into a demijohn. topping up to the shoulder with cooled, boiled water if necessary. Fit a bung and airlock and set aside in a warm place to ferment to completion. Rack from the lees in due course when the mead falls star-bright.

4

You do not have to use one type of honey. when you expiriment with different type trough one another, the taste of the mead will be different.

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