Making Your Own Mead: 43 Recipes for Homemade Honey Wines - Paperback

by Peter Duncan (Author), Bryan Acton (Author)

Once the drink of choice for Viking marauders and medieval kings, mead is enjoying a renaissance in popularity. The "nectar of the gods" is easy to make at home using just honey, water and yeast. This practical guidebook will inspire you to take up the craft, with a basic guide to mead-making techniques plus 43 recipes for brewing the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. Making Your Own Mead shows you how to produce an array of tasty mead variations, by blending honey with herbs, spices, fruits, berries, and more. Just because mead is made from honey doesn't mean it has to be sweet. Versatile mead can be dry as a bone or seductively sweet, sparkling or still, fruity or spicy. Discover how to make different types of mead like fruit-flavored melomels, grape-based pyments, spiced metheglins, and apple cysers. You'll also find recipes for mixing up your mead in classic drinks like a honey bishop or a twelfth night wassail.

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Fill Your Flagon with a Drink Fit for a King Once the drink of choice for Viking marauders and medieval kings, mead is enjoying a renaissance in popularity. The "nectar of the gods" is easy to make at home using just honey, water and yeast. This practical guidebook will inspire you to take up the craft, with a basic guide to mead-making techniques plus 43 recipes for brewing the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. Making Your Own Mead shows you how to produce an array of tasty mead variations, by blending honey with herbs, spices, fruits, berries, and more. Just because mead is made from honey doesn't mean it has to be sweet. Versatile mead can be dry as a bone or seductively sweet, sparkling or still, fruity or spicy. Discover how to make different types of mead like fruit-flavored melomels, grape-based pyments, spiced metheglins, and apple cysers. You'll also find recipes for mixing up your mead in classic drinks like a honey bishop or a twelfth night wassail. Inside you'll find: - 43 recipes for making both dry and sweet meads - Tips on honey selection, preparation and fermentation - Basic rules that every mead-maker needs to know - Advice on mead-making equipment - How to brew melomel, pyment, hippocras, metheglin, and cyser - Classic mead drinks and mulled drinks with honey Tips on honey selection, preparation and fermentation Practical guide to mead-making equipment and techniques Learn to brew melomel, pyment, hippocras, metheglin, and cyser

Author Biography

Bryan Acton was President of the Tunbridge Wells Guild and a member of the Greenhill Wine Guild.
Peter Duncan was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1959 with a first class honor BS in chemistry. He founded the Huron (Canada) Wine Guild, has been a member of both the Canadian and British National Guilds of Judges and used to write a popular weekly column called The Winemaker's Forum for local and national newspapers.