Mead recipes

brew_cat 2020-01-23 20:52:58 UTC #1

Seems to me that mead is being discussed alot lately. Anyone want to share. while I don't drink alot of the stuff it is fun to make and is a nice glucose free option. Does anyone make a hoppy mead? I'm thinking doing a boil with hop additions then add the honey at flame out then maybe some dry hops to the fermenter. Something for my celiac friends

brew_cat 2020-01-23 20:54:54 UTC #2

Also how about something with lemon and ginger

Dublin 2020-01-23 21:36:44 UTC #3

The mead batch I'm currently making is a lemon ginger one. I wanted to dry hop as well but think I'm going to see how this goes on it's own. I used white labs champagne yeast, 9 lbs of honey, 1 lb of ginger (peeled an sliced into 1/2 inch cubes), and the juice of 3 large lemons for what I thought would be 3 gallons. My OG was a little higher than I expected so I added an additional gallon of water. I also used 2 tsp of yeast nutrient, I was going to stagger but was told not to worry about it.

brew_cat 2020-01-23 21:51:56 UTC #4

Excellent. That sounds like something I had in my head. Will you carbonate it? That sounds like it would be good carbonated. Almost like a ginger ale. I usually stager the nutrients but not sure it matters

Dublin 2020-01-24 18:45:17 UTC #5

I do want to carbonate I'll probably get the fizz drops and carbonate half of it. A kegging system is my next purchase buy I'm going to be moving in a couple months so I'm brewing my last batch and I'll get a keg system in the new place. I think I could have done a better job aerating it fermentation seemed very mild but it did its job so that's all I'm concerned about.

brew_cat 2020-01-26 20:49:31 UTC #6

On my walk today came up with another Mead recipe I'd like try. I have some orange blossom honey thought I might get some froze oj concentrate and see what I get. I'm thinking 16oz concentrate 2lbs honey and a gallon of water. I'm thinking it my need a spice not sure what. It may get some raisins as well