byronyasgur
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I've made one of those 3 week 2 litre orange spiced meads but I have access to a lot of honey and I want to make a regular mead. I know they typically take a year to finish so I'm looking for a safe recipe that will give me a good mead, not something experimental or difficult or anything like that. I have 1118 yeast I'd prefer to use that if possible so I don't have to wait on the mail order but I do have some us05 but I've heard mixed reviews on using that for mead. Does anybody have any solid tried and trusted recipes? BTW nothing that calls for specialised honey please unless it can be substituted - I already have it and it's Irish honey which is typically a blend ( mainly wildflowers and clover I think ) as we don't have huge fields of single crops here like in other countries.
Everything I find on the net for standard mead is fairly generic or doesn't give much information ( like lots of them just say use yeast not saying which type - or how dry it ferments - or how long it should take to age ) I'm concerned that if I had enough honey in the must and added 1118 I could end up with an 18% mead that might take 2 or 3 years to age - I want to avoid this ideally - but at the same time I'd like a reasonably strong dry mead ( but one that's good in a year or less )
Thought about the BOMM but I don't have the yeast right now - will def do it next though
Everything I find on the net for standard mead is fairly generic or doesn't give much information ( like lots of them just say use yeast not saying which type - or how dry it ferments - or how long it should take to age ) I'm concerned that if I had enough honey in the must and added 1118 I could end up with an 18% mead that might take 2 or 3 years to age - I want to avoid this ideally - but at the same time I'd like a reasonably strong dry mead ( but one that's good in a year or less )
Thought about the BOMM but I don't have the yeast right now - will def do it next though