MrNiceHigh
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This is one of my personal favorites. This recipe can be used to create any flavor mead, all you have to do is substitute the dandelions with your favorite fruit / plant / flavor! No preservatives though!
What you'll need:
-3 pounds of honey (clover honey, the kind you find at the supermarket)
-Yeast (also found at the supermarket. I use 3 packs of rapid-rise yeast)
-Lots and lots of dandelion flowers and leaves (This is not an exact science and I have never adhered to particularly close measurements. Just know that the more you put in the stronger the taste.)
-I usually add some sugar to my mead as well, around 2-4 cups depending on how you're feeling. Remember that yeast eats sugar and the longer you leave your mead to ferment the more sugar it's going to eat up.
-About 250 fl. oz. of water.
What you'll need to do:
Boil the water with the honey, the dandelion and the sugar. If you have a suitable flavored tea it might be tasty to throw in some of those tea-bags into the boiling water for extra taste. Also, if you'd like to make Apple-Dandelion mead then you can replace the 250 oz. of water with four 64 oz. bottles of natural apple juice. Boil for about 15-20 min. There should be some foam at the top but if there isn't don't panic. I've done it with no foam forming at all when I worked with a peach mead.
Take the tea-bags out and let it cool down. You can throw some ice cubes into the pot to help it out. After it's cool pour it into a plastic bucket (IMPORTANT).
Now while all of that is cooling get about a cup or two cups of warm water and dissolve the yeast into it. After your original mixture is tepid slowly stir the yeast water into it.
Now pour it into a bucket, put the top on and let it sit in a clean, warmer place in your house.
DO NOT LET THE MEAD TOUCH METAL AFTER YOU'VE PLACED THE YEAST INTO IT. THIS CAN MAKE A RATHER NASTY POISON MEAD THAT WILL NOT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD AT ALL!!!!!
The key to making mead is experimenting to see what you like. You can always look up different types to make and there are tons of other ways you can make it.
Have fun, and remember.. NO FUCKING METAL!
-MrNiceHigh
What you'll need:
-3 pounds of honey (clover honey, the kind you find at the supermarket)
-Yeast (also found at the supermarket. I use 3 packs of rapid-rise yeast)
-Lots and lots of dandelion flowers and leaves (This is not an exact science and I have never adhered to particularly close measurements. Just know that the more you put in the stronger the taste.)
-I usually add some sugar to my mead as well, around 2-4 cups depending on how you're feeling. Remember that yeast eats sugar and the longer you leave your mead to ferment the more sugar it's going to eat up.
-About 250 fl. oz. of water.
What you'll need to do:
Boil the water with the honey, the dandelion and the sugar. If you have a suitable flavored tea it might be tasty to throw in some of those tea-bags into the boiling water for extra taste. Also, if you'd like to make Apple-Dandelion mead then you can replace the 250 oz. of water with four 64 oz. bottles of natural apple juice. Boil for about 15-20 min. There should be some foam at the top but if there isn't don't panic. I've done it with no foam forming at all when I worked with a peach mead.
Take the tea-bags out and let it cool down. You can throw some ice cubes into the pot to help it out. After it's cool pour it into a plastic bucket (IMPORTANT).
Now while all of that is cooling get about a cup or two cups of warm water and dissolve the yeast into it. After your original mixture is tepid slowly stir the yeast water into it.
Now pour it into a bucket, put the top on and let it sit in a clean, warmer place in your house.
DO NOT LET THE MEAD TOUCH METAL AFTER YOU'VE PLACED THE YEAST INTO IT. THIS CAN MAKE A RATHER NASTY POISON MEAD THAT WILL NOT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD AT ALL!!!!!
The key to making mead is experimenting to see what you like. You can always look up different types to make and there are tons of other ways you can make it.
Have fun, and remember.. NO FUCKING METAL!
-MrNiceHigh