Mead

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 pounds Honey (lighter the better)
1 Lemon
1 Orange
½ ounce Citric acid (up to)
3 drops Tannin -or-
1/16 ounce Yeast

Directions

1. Put honey into large pot add hot water to make up total to 1 gallon stir well until honey melts, simmer low for further 5 mins.

2. Add the juice of lemon and orange, the tannin and citric acid.

3. Strain liquid into fermentation vessel,place in warm spot and plug the top with cotton wool. Wait 4 days then......

4. Now fit fermentation lock onto vessel. ASIDE ( glass jar large enough to take all the liquid is all that is needed. To make ferm. vessel, as for the lock, use a rubber bung with a hole punched into the top..now buy an air lock (used in beer fermenting) and use that as the lock, cost $2½).

5. After the mixture stops bubbling (approx 3-5 days) syphon into sterilised container add one Campden tablet and close the container with air lock.

6. Let stand until clear then syphon into sterilised bottles,add 1 teaspoon ofsugar per 750ml bottle and cap...wait 14 days then drink.

IKIRK@...

(I. DARLENE KIRK)

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