Honey Mead

Orange Spice Mead

by David 20 September 2010

When I first decided to make homemade wine and mead I found Storm the Castle to be a very helpful website.  I loosely followed a recipe from there site to make my Cheap Easy Mead as well as when I decided to go big with my First 5 gallon Batch.  Reading through the site I […]

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Ruby Hooker Raspberry Mead

by David 15 September 2010

I was reading Charlie Papazian’s “The Homebrewer’s Companion” and while the mead section is relatively short it does have some really good looking recipes in it, the Ruby Hooker Raspberry Mead is no different.  It looked so good I thought I’d give it a try. Josh and I did this one together. I used the recipe […]

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Easy Recipes For Beginner Mead Makers

by David 14 July 2010

I have been trying coinvince a lot of people to give homemade mead making a shot for some time now. As a result they often ask me for an easy recipe.  I usually send them an e-mail with all the info they need.  The other day this question was asked of me on twitter by […]

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Recipe: Easy First Time Mead

by David 14 July 2010

List of Ingredients: 5 Gallon of Spring Water (do not get refrigerated) 1.5-4 pounds of pure unprocessed honey per gallon of water 2 teaspoons of yeast nutrient 2 teaspoons of yeast energizer 1 package of wine yeast Adjust honey as follows for desired sweetness: Specification Dry Medium Sweet Very Sweet Honey per gallon 1.5 – […]

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Recipe: Easy 5 Gallon Batch

by David 14 July 2010

List of Ingredients I purchased from Grocery store: 5 Gallon of Spring Water (do not get refrigerated) 2-3 pounds of pure unprocessed honey per gallon of water 1 package of wine yeast 3 Tea Bag 3 Orange 75 Raisins Start by sanitizing your carboy with some bleach water. (1 cap mixed with a gallon of water) […]

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Recipe: Cheap Easy Mead

by David 14 July 2010

List of Ingredients I purchased from Grocery store: 1 Gallon of Spring Water (do not get refrigerated) 3-4 pounds of pure unprocessed honey 1 balloon to stretch over the mouth of the spring water jug 1 package of Fleishmann’s Yeast (or any wine making yeast) 1 Tea Bag 1 Orange 25 Raisins Start by taking a […]

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First Transfer

by David 7 July 2010

It has been a little while since, I started my first 5 Gallon batch of mead.  It has been fermenting along but I thought I’d transferred it to a secondary fermenter.  I used an Auto Siphon, and I transferred the homemade mead from a bucket to a 6 gallon better bottle carboy.  Since fermentation was not complete […]

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How Easy is Homemade Wine Making

by David 1 July 2010

Shortly after I began Making Homemade Wine, I started adding a few posts about my homemade wine making adventures on Facebook and Twitter. It was not long after that, I logged in to Facebook and this was posted on my wall: Well Pam, Sorry it took me so long to respond but here is your […]

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Going Big with 5 Gallons of Mead

by David 29 June 2010

I had all ready started making wine with My First Batch of Mead.  But that was just to hold me over till I could do some serious wine making.  When I say serious wine making I use the term “serious” loosely since I’m learning as I go, but what I really mean is make a […]

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My First Mead Batch

by David 25 June 2010

After I learned how easy it is to make mead, I was super excited to start making the wine. I however did not want to wait until the weekend so I could start the wine making endeavor with my buddy Josh who wanted in.  I had been doing a lot of reading and found a […]

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