Mead, or honey wine, is the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. It is easy to imagine that at some point in history a urn of honey got diluted with water and through the magic of natural yeast, was fermented into mead. We can only guess that whoever owned that urn was suddenly very popular!

Thousands of years later it is still just as simple to make, requiring a minimum of equipment. The beautiful part about making mead is that high quality honey is available year around and you can easily ferment mead with the winemaking equipment you already have.

For our 8 page MoreManual on meadmaking please click here.

Consider using some yeast strains that proven themselves in meadmaking. DV10, Montrachet, Côtes de Blanc, QA23, and D47 are all great choices.

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