#20 Lemon/Apple mead
This was made using the boiled ginger from a batch of ginger beer, simmering lemons and limes, and adding apple juice. This was a random idea and honestly the result wasn’t very good. I believe it was just too many flavors for one batch and using an Ale yeast just didn’t have the tolerance to ferment enough of the sugars. I may try this again with just the ginger and apple as the lemon/lime overpowers almost everything else. In the future when using lemon or lime I will reduce the amounts.
ABV: 9.23%
Started: 04/12/2022
Bottled: 08/21/2022
Ingredients
- 10 lbs. Kirkland Honey
- 1 gallon Treetop Apple juice
- 4 lemons
- 4 limes
- 3 gallon water
- Yeast SO-5
Recipe
- Cut lemons and limes into 1/8ths.
- Bring Water to boiling.
- Add lemons and limes to water.
- Turn on the heat to a simmer and let it simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Add Apple juice and ginger to Lemon/Lime water this will help bring the liquid to a temp that won’t kill the yeast.
- Warm Honey to around 100°F to make for easier pouring.
- Add the honey to the water and juice mixture and stir.
- Pour the mixture into a fermenter.
- Fill the fermenter with cool water until you reach a 5 gallon volume.
- Add the yeast.
- Measure the mixture’s gravity. (Mine: 1.068)
- Let ferment for at least 2 months.
- Check gravity, wait 2 weeks, check again and repeat until the gravity doesn’t change.
- Bottle or Keg