How to Make Mead at HOME- Everything you Need to Make Your First Mead

How to Make Mead! Let’s Make Mead - Make your First Mead with Honey at Home Beginner Mead, Part Two: Racking and Bottling: How to make Mead for Beginners Honey Mead. Simple, Quick Mead you can Make at Home Today. Oh, just because this first mead recipe is quick and easy doesn’t mean it doesn’t taste good. It’s in my top 5 favorite mead recipes of all time! Mead does not have to be difficult. Making Mead was something done in the home until fairly recently! We show you s quick and simple recipe for making your first mead. Yes, in this video we show you how to make your very first mead. You don’t need a lot of equipment, but, honey is expensive, so you want to ensure you do this right so as to not waste it and the money needed. This is part one of a two part series on How to Make your First Mead. Try our simple mead recipe today! We made a page all about what GEAR you need for Brewing, have a look: We have a blog post about How to Make Your First Mead: 0:00 - Intro 0:16 - What you Need to Make Mead 2:06 - Why we are using Fleischmann’s Bread Yeast 3:51 - Raisins in your Mead and Why they are REALLY there 6:22 - Let’s Assemble the Mead 7:48 - The Importance of Sanitation in Mead Making 8:58 - Weighing the Honey for the Mead 11:12 - Adding Water to the Honey and Mixing to Aerate the Must 13:03 - Checking the Specific Gravity with a Hydrometer Reading 15:04 - Pitching Bread Yeast into the Must 16:34 - Adding an Airlock to the Fermenter and why 19:38 - What to Expect During Fermentation 21:09 - Fermentation of the Mead is Nearly Finished 23:28 - “Swirling“ the Mead to Degas and Keep Fermentation Happy How to Read a Hydrometer: ____________________________________________________ Some links to items used in the Video. We are Amazon Affiliates and as such receive a small commission if you purchase anything on Amazon using our links. There is no additional cost to you but it does help the channel grow: Odin’s Brewery t-shirt:   Sunshine and Whiskey t-shirt:   City-Steading Brews t-shirt: Red Bucket of Sanitization: Scale:   Funnel:   1 Gallon Carboy (we used an empty Apple Juice Jug)  Star San:   Solid Bungs:   Hydrometer:   Graduated Cylinder:   Airlocks:     Ingredients:   3 pounds (1.4 Kilograms) Honey:   Black Tea (1 cup steeped):   1/4 to 1/2 of an orange Citrus peel of your choice (we used dried Orange peel)  1 teaspoon Yeast (Fleischmann’s is the most reliable bread yeast to brew with in our experience):   2 ounces Raisins chopped  ____________________________________________________ Want more City Steading? Join our Mailing List: Website: City Steading Bread and Beyond: City Steading Garden and Grow: VIP Club: Instagram: #mead #howtomakemead #firstmead #beginnermead