Shepherd Made Mead Making Kit (Mead-Kit), Multicolored

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In that case, you’d better just keep your moonshines to yourself because what’s illegal is selling, trading and bartering your mead for goods or services. We only recommend brands we trust. We try to recommend kitchen products we’ve owned or used personally and we offer alternatives. We choose these alternative products based on recommendations from other food bloggers and chefs, sommeliers, and winemakers. Buyers Guide: How To Choose The Best Mead-making kit for beginners Features to look out for Components

Let me tell you this: mead-making is very easy and fun once you’ve learned the basics. So it won’t surprise me if you get hooked too. Because of that, you have to be smart and choose equipment with durable and long-lasting qualities, so you’ll be able to use them in the long run and make your money worth it. Value for money It’s great that it’s not like most kits’ manuals which are vague but this one’s quite advanced for a beginner and might even be confusing. You can make mead in your kitchen without problems; you also need a particular brewing room or go to a specific place to ferment your mead. We recommend that the space you choose has little access to the sun or hard lights. Not all of us have apiaries near us, but if you can use local honey, that's awesome, too. We love supporting our local beekeepers. If you’re a total beginner, I recommend the Starter Mead Kit by Home Brew Ohio as the most beginner-friendly of the bunch. But if you’re a seasoned user already, well, I was quite blown away by Home Brew Ohio Mead Making Kit, with its complete features that’ll leave you satisfied and unhassled.

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Gather 2.5 lb of honey and 1 gallon of spring water. Pour only HALF a gallon of water into the sanitized jug using the funnel. Details: In a few short months you can have a mead ready to drink! Or let it sit and the flavor will age with time to a more complex taste. Mead is a simple alcoholic beverage made from honey, water and yeast. But would you like to complex it up a bit? There are plenty of flavors that accent the taste of mead and can be added to the process like orange zest, lemon peel, ginger, cinnamon or oak chips. The ABV ranges from 10-12%. Mead Kit DOES NOT include 2.5lbs honey.

Stir the honey and water mixture well, and let it cool to about 90°F. Make sure it's not too hot — when it's time to add the yeast, you don't want to kill it! Yeast is a living organism, and can only survive at temperatures below 110°F. Perhaps THE original fermented beverage, mead predates both wine and beer. It was sipped by the ancient Greeks – who considered it to be the drink of the gods – and by the Romans, Vikings, Ehtiopians & many other civilizations. It was thought to be discovered by accident – when rainwater mixed with honey was spontaneously fermented by natural, wild yeasts. The result was something drinkable (and potent). Mead has likely been around for as long as honeybees have!

Mead Making Kit - 2.5L

Yes, you can make different types of mead by varying the amount of honey and the type of yeast used. For a sweeter mead, add more honey and use a yeast made specifically for sweet honey wine. Aside from the 2 cons, it’s an enjoyable experience making my cherry mead using this kit. It’s also simple enough not to confuse a first-timer. But as proven by this review (I know, we were surprised too!), there’s actually a kit for every level of experience.