Dry Mead

Recipe Cuisine: Beverages
Recipe Category: Beverages
Recipe Serves: 1

Recipes Ingredients:

3 lb Clover Honey
1/16 oz Tannin
1/4 oz Tartaric acid
Steinberg yeast (or any goo
1/2 oz Malic acid
Wine yeast)
Yeast nutrients as required
Water (to 1 gal)

Recipe Instructions:

Dissolve the honey in 2 liters (1/2 gal) warm water together with the nutrients, acid, and tannin. Make the volume up to 4.5 liters (1 gal) with cold water and add 100 ppm sulphites. After 24 hours add the yeast starter and allow to ferment to dryness. Thereafter follow the basic procedure.