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Articles Should you make 1 gallon of mead or 5 gallons? Mead Making and Alcohol Content The Secret Art of Mead Making Revealed New: 5 Tips for the beginner mead maker It's all about the Honey - A dramatic look at how important honey is in mead making For Beginners: How to make your first and easy 1 gallon batch of Mead honey wine How to make a sparkling champagne style mead How much does it cost to make a batch of mead? I have the cost breakdown here How to make a batch of mead today! The fast, easy, and cheap way to your first batch of honey wine The difference is the honey! A stop motion animation showing two different honeys side by side and how the fermented brew looks Thinking about designing or buying your wine and mead bottle labels? Here is some information about labels and bottles that will help you The Magical Transformation of water into wine with pics How and why to use a hydrometer How to use a wine thief to test your wine or mead Dispelling the Myths about Mead Thoughts about Mead and Wine Making Important note about Sanitizing your Mead making and wine making equipment Learning the art of Patience when making wine or mead How do you know the ferment is working? Checking the PH of your Mead to insure good fermentation (video)
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Make 1 gallon of Mead or 5 gallons?Typical wine and beer makers start out with a 5 or 6 gallon plastic pail when it comes to making their first batches of brew. I started doing this when I adventured into mead making but I have got to tell you that this can get pretty expensive. You probably can figure out that honey is not exactly cheap and it takes a lot of honey to make mead. Usually about three pounds of honey per gallon of mead. And this makes a medium mead. It can get to be quite a bit more if you want to make a sweet mead. And this is only one gallon! IF you are making five gallons you are looking at fifteen pounds of honey! Ok, so what did I do? One of the important things that I do is experiment. I experiment with different recipes and with different ways of making mead. And in order to make this cost effective I have chosen to make one gallon batches of mead, which is decent for what I am looking for. This quantity of mead gives me about four bottles and gives me enough mead to see exactly what my recipe yields - over time too. A good example of how I am using the one gallon approach is the experiment I am doing with 12 gallons of mead. Every gallon is exactly the same except for the yeast. So what I have is a controlled experiment where I can get a handle on what yeast yields what. Update on the Twelve Bottles of Mead: Here is a picture I spliced together of all twelve
If you are in the stage where you are experimenting with flavors and recipes then the one gallon approach might be good for you. But I have an alternative suggestion that seems to be growing in popularity. How about making a three gallon batch of mead? This is almost the perfect solution. It is almost half the price of a five gallon batch, it is easier to handle, and it will still yield you about 12 bottles of mead which means you actually will be able to share your mead with others.
3 Gallon Glass Carboy for Beer or Wine Making
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