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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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How Much Does Honey Weigh?If you are new to mead making you are no doubt asking this question. Mostly because, for some odd reason, lots of mead recipes tell you how much honey to put into your mead by giving you the weight you should add. for example to make a medium mead you should add about 3 pounds of honey per gallon of mead. The thing about honey is that it is not uniform. There are many different types of honey and they all weigh different amounts per volume so the only real way to know how much honey to add to a mead recipe is to actually weigh out the honey! Yup, grab a scale and weigh out exactly what you need. Now, if your specifications are like mine in that you don' worry about being this exact then here is a good rule of thumb for you: 1 Quart in volume will weigh about three pounds which is good enough for the things that I do. Use a measuring cup or estimate with a quart jar to get you relatively close to any amount of honey your recipe calls for. And remember that there are 4 quarts in a gallon so 1 gallon of mead should weigh around 12 pounds.
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