First mead tester

[Cwetherford]

Can someone give me a half gal or gAllon recipe for mead for my first

 

[malkore]

sure...there's 3 dozen recipes in the Recipe database of this site, under "Mead".

 

[KevinM]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/mead-growler-256575/ last post. Or 1-5 gallons of honey and water to make one gallon. Nutrients per mead sticky. Some sort of wine yeast. (D47, 1118)

 

[beninan]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/mead-growler-256575/ last post. Or 1-5 POUNDS of honey and water to make one gallon. Nutrients per mead sticky. Some sort of wine yeast. (D47, 1118)

There, I edited it for you. 1-5 gallons of honey in a 1 gallon batch would be insanely sweet for a mead (not to mention, impossible for 1 gallon).

 

[KevinM]

Whoops, thanks. "Watch as I put 5 gallons of honey directly into this one gallon container! Nothing up this sleeve, nothing up this sleeve... Presto!" Can't imagine any other way, ha ha.

And I wanted to refer to the JAOM post in the other thread, not the last one (since that can always change). I can't wait till I get my laptop keyboard repaired. And here's something I meant to post in the other thread yesterday as well:
I used a plastic water jug before, or a sanitized plastic jug that once held cider. (was going fine, until I put in some unsanitzied oak). You can range anywhere from 1-5 pounds of honey per gallon of water. The less honey used, the quicker it will be drinkable. The larger amount of honey would require a significant amount of aging due to the high alcohol content.
There's some other factors involved to, but 1.5 pounds would give you about 5.21 ABV, while 5 pounds about 18% (like a dessert wine).