Brewday: Mead (Honey Wine) with @AlexharwoodUk

Alex (@AlexharwoodUk ) from Twitter came over today with 3 jars of Rowse Honey, just over 2kg of lovely honey to make a Mead as well a 5 liters of Spring Water, a orange and a lemon.


Mead is a simple Honey Wine, and we wanted to keep it just that, Simple.

So we just warmed up the Honey pots to help the honey escape the Jars and poured it into my Jam Pan, topped the Pan up with Spring Water to 5 litres and brought the Honey and water mix to a gentle simmer, skimming off any foam.

Then transferred the soon to be Mead liquid into one of my 5 litre fermenting buckets and let it cool down. By early evening it was cool enough to add the lemon and orange juice, along with the yeast and yeast nutrient and it is now slowly bubbling away turning all that natural sugar into alcohol.

I actually checked the SG of the Must this time and if it ferments right out it should come in at 17% ABV