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Home Story Index Recipe Exchange Basic Dry Mead
Basic Dry Mead
Issue Mar/Apr 2002

Basic Dry Mead

1 gallon

Ingredients:

  • 2.5 lbs. honey (any kind)
  • 2 tsp acid blend
  • 0.25 tbsp gypsum
  • 0.15 tsp Irish moss powder
  • 1 Campden tablet or 0.15 tsp sulfite powder
  • 1-2 tsp yeast nutrient
  • Wine yeast of choice

Step-by-step:

Dissolve honey in enough warm water to bring the volume to just over one gallon. Add rest of ingredients except sulfite and yeast. Remove 1 cup of must and heat to 80° F, pitch yeast into the warm must. Add sulfite to the 1 gallon of must and cover. After 12-24 hours add fermenting mead starter to 1 gallon of must. Attach a bung and airlock and ferment to dryness. Rack to secondary container. Keep secondary container full and rack every 4-6 weeks until clear. Bottle at several months of age.

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