Honey Mead
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Ingredients
- 15 quarts honey
- 10 gallons water
- 7 1/2 ounces hops or 15 winemaker's compressed yeast cakes
- 1 quart brandy or 1 quart sherry wine
Recipe
- 1 add honey to water and boil 45 minutes.
- 2 add hops and boil 30 additional minutes (or if using yeast, cool to lukewarn and crumble yeast into it).
- 3 let stand overnight.
- 4 add brandy or sack and pour into a large crock or cask.
- 5 cover with an oversized lid and let stand until fermentation is complete.
- 6 cover tightly and seal.
- 7 let stand a year; bottle.
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