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I have a youtube channel with over 20 Mead Making Videos
Articles
Should you make 1 gallon of mead or 5 gallons?
Mead Making and Alcohol Content
Some information about Yeast 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? Discovering Mead Mead by any other name Checking the PH of your Mead to insure good fermentation (video) Making Flavored Meads 
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Here is an awesome picture of a meadery/winery one web visitor has going on! (Ian) Thanks Ian for the great pic. I had to make the pic a bit small but here are the notations from left to right:
Blackberry wine full bodied, Mead, Tangerine wine, Ginger mead, Ginger wine,
Apple banana and ginger wine, 5 gallons of mead with cinnamon
here's a picture of my latest batch of goodness , it is really my second lot of brewing I have done, I started in the autumn after picking blackberries with my daughter then deciding what to do with them I made jam, after looking on the net. I made 30 bottles of not so bad but could be better blackberry wine which led to me making my first mead which was good but I went for the spice recipe I think I used too many cloves but tasted nicer the longer i left it.
then came 20 liters of lager which is in the fridge and it has turned out perfect but it is from a kit .
I don't know how long you have been making your own drink but I am totally hooked . I think it must be a creation thing I cant stop watching the airlocks :) and waiting for the next batch im driving my wife mad .
thanks for your pointers you have been very helpful
Here is a picture of a pumpkin mead submitted by Rick. He calls it a Sweet Nectar! This picture was taken 48 hours after it was mixed and at the time it was very active. Here is what Rick has to say about how he made it:
Yesterday I made up my mead. Here are the steps that I used
1 gal spring water brought to a simmer then removed from the heat
3 lbs Wildflower honey added and stirred for 5 minutes to incorporate
then returned to heat and brought back to a boil slowly Once at a boil,
I slowly brought it back to a good simmer and skimmed the foam for about
10 minutes At the 10 minute mark I add 1 can (15 oz) of pumpkin and 1
1/2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice, this simmered for 5 minutes Placed
in ice bath unitl temp reached 73 degrees Funneled into a 1 gallon
carboy Added 1/4 orange peel without the pith (the orange was small,
that is why I used 1/4 instead of 1/5 as you recommended) I capped it
and shook it for about 1 minute Added the yeast straight from the
package (Lalvin D-47) and recapped and shook again for 5 minutes (hell
of a workout to say the least) Airlocked it and it is sitting in the
pantry
Now for the hard part, waiting and racking, waiting and racking again,
the more waiting.
Here is a picture of mead that was submitted by William M. It looks delicious! He used my Orange Mead recipe and here is what he has to say about it:
Hey! I figured you'd like to see a pic so I attached one. I'm a little worried my oranges might dry out and mold so I may try to sink them tomorrow or remove them...I don't want an overpowering orange taste. I'll definitely taste the mead when I rack...good idea. Thanks again for your advice, I'll keep you updated!
These two pictures are of mead making submitted by Cristobal F. They look absolutely fantastic! From left to right these meads are: Apple, Strawberry, Chestnut and Tangerine (Or Mandarin Orange).
Some Notes from Cristobal about these:
"All four of the flavored meads clarified better than the regular mead recipe, I think its because the yeast attached itself to the particles of fruit in suspention when the main fermentation was over. And the chestnut mead loose all their distinctive flavor , leaving a different, strange to identify taste behind, altough it isn´t bad at all... just strange... I took your standart recipe of flavored orange mead, adapted for 5 liters, replaced the yeast for a champagne yeast (Which i do not recomend unless you want a VERY strong and dry mead, however you can add more honey later) and added the equivalent in weight of oranges in other fruits... strawberries give an amazing colour to the mead , and the strong yeast made the strawberry flavor smooth."
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