Ingredients
- 3 lbs. of Honey
- ⅛ cup sugar
- 0.7 gallon water
- 0.3 gallon ice
- 1pk Red Star Champagne Yeast
Equipment
- 1 – 1 gallon pot
- 2 – 1 gallon jugs/carboys
- 1 – spoon
- 1 – jar at least that holds at least 2 ½ cups
- 1 – 38mm cap
- 1 – 38mm drilled cap
- 1 – airlock
- 1 – hydrometer
- 1 – graduated cylinder
Instructions
- Make a yeast starter by stirring the ⅛ cup sugar into 2 cups water.
- Add the dry yeast to the 2 cups of water.
- Pour the remaining water into your pot.
- Bring the water in the pot to light boiling.
- Warm Honey to around 100 degrees. DON’T BOIL
- Remove the water from the heat
- Stir in the honey until combined.
- Ad the ice to the mixture and stir until ice melts.
- You will want to cool to around 75 degrees.
- Fill the graduated cylinder.
- Measure the meads gravity with the hydrometer.
- Pouring the yeast into the mead.
- Pour the mead into the jug/carboy.
- Cap with a closed cap and shake 30 seconds to agitate.
- Remove cap and replace with drilled cap
- Fill airlock with water to suggested line.
- Insert airlock into cap.
- Put in a temperature controlled area (65-75 degrees suggested) for 2 weeks.
- Fill the graduated cylinder.
- Measure the meads gravity with the hydrometer.
- Move to a secondary jar/carboy, don’t pour the dead yeast.
- Put back in a temperature controlled area for 6 months.
- Fill the graduated cylinder.
- Measure the meads final gravity with the hydrometer.
- Bottle and/or drink.
Formulas:
og = original gravity
fg = final gravity
ABV 1: (76.08 * (og-fg) / (1.775-og)) * (fg / 0.794)
ABV 2: (og – fg) * 131.25
Calories from Alcohol: 1881.22 * FG * (OG-FG)/(1.775-OG)
Calories from Mead: 3550.0 * FG * ((0.1808 * OG) + (0.8192 * FG) – 1.0004)
Calories Total: Calories from Alcohol + Calories from Mead