What is Mead and How do you Make it?

An introduction to Mead, what it is and the process of making it in one gallon batches. It is a wine made from honey rather than grapes and it is pretty easy to make. Lots of mead making stuff on my website at :
http://www.stormthecastle.com/mead/index.htm

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• mead
• mead making
• honey wine
• instructional
• tutorial
• wine

[MexSanukk]

Mead! this is how I first discovered Storm the Castle, way back when. Good to see you returning to it.

[epicfantasy]

@MexSanukk cool, great comment. I haven't posted a mead vid in a while so I did this one. But, the mead website has been getting new stuff all the while :) Thanks for visiting my website!

[stephanosmixail]

excellent video!!In greece we have a diffenrent variation called rakomelo which i basically tsipouro(a bit like ouzo usually without the aneseed) which is boiled with honey and other herbs and is either drunk hot(very good for u when u got a cold) or at room temperature...but it is a lot stronger than meed.

[epicfantasy]

@stephanosmixail I love Greece. Never tried the rakomelo though.

[MrBebopKid]

Could you use cheesecloth to syphon it?

[epicfantasy]

@MrBebopKid Yes, but siphoning is better. You also filter out flavor.

[zorgfleeter]

you said something about using bread yeast but i did not understand what you said shortly after that it also concerned the bread yeast. that part just went to fast for me to understand :s

[Kujo999]

I'd be a lot warmer and alot happier with a belly full of mead.

[rock100010000]

i think on my 21st birthday i will make mead with juniper berries mixed in

[MexSanukk]

@jedikkeneus Use yeast with higher tolerance, back feed it. I often make 25% but usually go with lower as it's quicker.

[stephanosmixail]

@Jimbokafrilica Μην γραφεις γκρικλις....αλλα πως να εξηγησω στον αλλον που δεν ξερει τι ειναι ρακη πως μοιαζει?

[ErafornNeverov]

I am way under age and I have tried honey wine it was only 14% but it was only ok for me to drink it if I had a small wine glass Mead is very similiar to honey wine but I think mead can be a little more stronger because I think it will taste better like that I really want to make my own Mead maybe someday I'll ask my dad to make some he's pretty good with drinks I think I'll make a tutorial on how to make some of my own mead I am pretty young so please excuse me if you have any ?'s reply to this

[Jimbokafrilica]

can't you not sanitize it with alcohol or whiskey vodka something like that

[Jimbokafrilica]

@epicfantasy i made one with a lot of yeast and honey to make it strong after 3 mounths i opened it and exploded in my face-.- don't over do it