Wassail mead
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 12½ | pounds | Light clover honey |
| 4 | teaspoons | Acid blend |
| 5 | teaspoons | Yeast nutrient |
| Wine yeast | ||
Directions
Add honey, acid blend, and yeast nutrient to 2 gallons of water and boil for ½ hour. Add this to 1-½ gallons of cold water in the primary fermenter. Pitch yeast when the temperature reaches 70-75 degrees. Use a blow off tube if you use a carboy. Allow fermentation to proceed for 3 weeks or more (up to several months). When the mead becomes fairly clear, rack to secondary. Attach air-lock. Leave the mead to sit at least 3 weeks. When yeast settles to bottom and is clear, it is ready to bottle. Adding ¾ cup of corn sugar at bottling will produce a sparkl- ing mead. Sparkling meads should not be made with an original gravity higher than 1.090. Original Gravity: 1⅒ Final Gravity: 1.000 Recipe By : Serving Size:
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