Honey Mead

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

I have been thinking about it for a while now. After I tasted a friend of mine's vile mead, I thought I have to give it a go and try and improve on that stuff he called mead. Tasted bad. The stuff got contaminated.
Anyway, back to my mead escapade. So after a few months of research and a general attitude of "Wing it", I set up the following recipe for my mead which I will try as soon as my fermenter frees up, and right before my pilsner.
The bill:
4 lbs honey
1 lb DME
1 oz of Hallertauer hops
Citric acid
Some spice
Ale yeast (still deciding)
5 gallons of water
Aiming for a low abv mead here.

[FaanP Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close FaanP]

With 4 pounds of honey and 1 pound of DME and only an ale yeast, it is going to be VERY sweet.

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

I am aiming to brew braggot. I will update the recipe as soon as brewday comes. Will do a little more research into the spices and hop choice. I figured 4 parts honey 1 part DME would be a good as any place to start.

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

So today I brewed a small batch of braggot. Here with what I used;
0.11 oz Apollo hops (5 minute boil)
0.7 oz Blackstrap Molasses
2 oz Amber candi sugar (diy'ed it)
7 oz Honey
batch volume of 0.264 gal US

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

I guess there aren't many mead fans around?

[FaanP Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close FaanP]

Did not taste it yet, thus I can't say if I am a fan

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

Haven't tasted a good batch myself, but looking forward to it.

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

So I had a few minutes free today, so I bottled my braggot I brewed back in June. The braggot still tasted sweet. So hopefully the taste develops into a nice blend between sweetness and hop character.

[MEADiocre Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MEADiocre]

Brennen,

My mate and I brewed 8 batches of different blends of mead over December, I will keep you posted over the next 12 months to see how they turn out.

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

MEADiocre that would be great thank you. Mine is almost ready for 'sampling'.

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

An update to my mead adventure. It did not turn out as I expected. Have one more bottle left and will try and get a descriptive post going.

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

Brennen have you figured out what went wrong? A friend bought me a citrus mead from down under that tastes awesome so would like to do my own mead one day.

[Brennen Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brennen]

Brennen have you figured out what went wrong? A friend bought me a citrus mead from down under that tastes awesome so would like to do my own mead one day.

Best of luck with that mead, assuming it is not a little too late. I do apologise for the belated
.................................................. ........response, just got my home internet going again.
The problem was the low quantity brewing. I did not have the correct scale to properly weigh out my ingredients. I did just brew a litre.


PS. On a side note. I never did get around to properly taste the other bottle of mead, it met the drain system faster and with more enthusiasm then when it met my lips.

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Any new updates on the "mead productions" ?

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Sort of a "bump"

> http://www.wortsandall.co.za/showthread.php?1428-Honey