Mead set for a come back!

[Rosti]

Click - Mead set for a come back - source BBC

so any good recipes peeps?

 

[drstitson]

not just shameless advertising by the producers featured?

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Not tried the Cornish variety, but my favourite when a serious and committed mead drinker about 20 years ago was Lindesfarne - absolutely beautiful

 

[Rosti]

not just shameless advertising by the producers featured?

What? on the beeb! surely that bastion has not fallen to common advertising!

 

[drstitson]

no different to the beeb being taken in every year by the toy manufacturers and their feature on the top 10 best sellers for the coming xmas.

 

[RoofTops]

It was very dark mead. The stuff we have made was always very pale. Perhaps dark honey was used but more likely there are things added to give it a bit more flavour. Was the honey local? The descriptionon their website gives no clue which probably means it isn't. I also suspect it is not traditional mead either. They describe it as a honey flavoured wine. They also do a "luqueur" (sic)

Their website is here: http://www.cornishmead.co.uk/

 

[greatbritishhoney]

If you had have told me a few years ago that Perry would be so popular today (albeit rebranded as Pear Cider) I never would have believed you. So maybe a bit of rebranding for Mead could see it enjoy the same resurgence - it's a nice drink.

 

[bee-live]

Here are some recepies;
http://www.greydragon.org/brewing/mead.html

However I only tried the aprox ratio of honey to water, using some remains from heather honey-wax,filtered, boiled and fermeted with cider yeast. The final product is not bad, nice flavour, a bit sweet but strong.
Any recomendations for futher trials.
CG

 

[Poly Hive]

How sweet do you like your mead?

I like mine very very dry.

PH

 

[RoofTops]

5,005 posts PH. I didn't hear any corks popping with the 5,000th? But well done. Crack open a bottle of mead - real mead not the honey flavoured grape-based drink featured above.(see their website).

 

[Poly Hive]

Sighs, I don't have any made...

Best I ever made was down to an sg of 995... that was powerful stuff, 17% alcohol.

Must try again this year.... lol

PH

 

[sputnam]

The "mead" that started this thread is very nice, but it is not traditional mead. It is a honey flavoured drink.

 

[Arfermo]

News bothers me a bit. Too much surplus honey around? Mead is very nice but honey on my brekkie etc nicer.

 

[Arfermo]

Click - Mead set for a come back - source BBC

so any good recipes peeps?

Try this View attachment 5365

 

[Arfermo]

Click - Mead set for a come back - source BBC

so any good recipes peeps?

Try this lot View attachment 5366 and modify as necessary as the recipes are at least 30 years old. They from a book on "Prizewinning Wines" so are very good.

 

[BeeMoustashe]

I do mead fairly reguarly, and I find 5 1/2 pounds of honey to one gallon of water, dessert wine yeast, 1 tsp each of tannin and citric acid and 3 of yeast nutrient makes a very very nice, strong mead with the sweetness roughly like Hock. And it's nice and easy to put together!

 

[mills]

Here's a nice variation on the Guardian website. www dot guardian dot co dot uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/feb/15/how-to-make-metheglin

I'm yet to test it out.

 

[MuswellMetro]

My BKA is having a lectur on Mead making on the 31st by a member of Enfield and District BKA

They have promised free samples of mead.....so i am going by Bus...a number 34 just as in my Avitar

 

[Excession]

I already have beer making facilities, I guess making mead isn't much more challenging?

Honey already has yeast in it doesn't it? I guess I should take some time to read the links!!!

 

[BeeJayBee]

Honey already has yeast in it doesn't it?

Why would honey have yeast in it, why would bees want their food to ferment?

I guess I should take some time to read the links!!!

Probably a good idea.