Simple mead at home

Original, fragrant, strong, delicious! Simple mead is an alcoholic drink that is easy to prepare at home. This is one of the oldest drinks, it is made from honey and hops. The more exposure the mead has, the higher its degree is obtained.

Julia M.

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Honey

350

Water

Hops

Yeast (beer halls)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 0 % 0 g

Fats 0 % 0 g

Carbohydrates 100 % 12 g

60 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 15 d

Step 1:
How to make a simple mead at home? Prepare the products. Take natural, fragrant honey, floral is best. The density of honey is not so important — it will still dissolve in water.
Step 2:
Measure out the required amount of hops and yeast. I use granulated hops and special brewer's yeast. You can find it all in a specialized brewing store.
Step 3:
Measure the required amount of water. Pour it into a saucepan, put it on the fire and bring to a boil.
Step 4:
Then add the honey and stir until it is completely dissolved. Let the mixture boil for 5 minutes. During boiling, remove the foam that will form.
Step 5:
Then pour the honey water into a glass jar and cool to a warm state. Stir in the yeast and hops.
Step 6:
Cover the jar with gauze and put it in a warm place for a few days to ferment. Fermentation will take 5-7 days.
Step 7:
After stopping the fermentation process, strain the drink through several layers of gauze. The more layers, the less sediment there will be later. Pour into bottles, cover with lids and put in a cool place for infusion and storage. After a week, you can try the drink. Have a nice treat!

Mead is a low-alcohol drink, strength up to 16 degrees. This is an ancient, healthy and delicious drink made of honey.
The ability to prepare such a drink as mead at home is one of its advantages.
Mead becomes stronger from the aging period. If it is consumed immediately after cooking, then it will taste more like kvass. Therefore, if you want to get a more alcoholic drink, you need to let it brew for at least 2-3 months.
To add flavor to the drink during fermentation, fresh berries and various spices are added, such as ginger, nutmeg, cloves and others.
It is best to store mead in glassware — bottles or cans. But in ancient times it was stored in wooden barrels and treated with it only on big holidays. Therefore, the aging of such a drink in those days was very long.

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.

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Dry yeast can be replaced with fresh pressed yeast, based on the proportion of 1:3. That is, for 1 gram of dry yeast required by the recipe, you need to take 3 grams of fresh.