wow, so many items that I see as wrong it's not even funny...
Well sir, haha.
I have to disagree. I think that there is a lot of good information that is useful for the beginner mead maker.
Boiling honey CAN have benefits. There was a very unscientific experiment done by a blogger that compared side by side two of the same meads, except one was boiled and one wasnt. The results were that while boiled honey did lose some aroma, it was found to have a smoother and more full body. Again, this was just a double blind non scientific experiment, but I think it goes to show that this no boil dogmatism needs to rest. I do not boil, but I think its fine if people choose to.
Second, let a man rinse if he wished. some of us want as little of those chemicals in the product as possible, no matter how "safe" they are.
Also it does not require more than half a year to produce good mead. It can be done in under three months. I just served a very light mead at new years that people loved that was 5 weeks old.
I do agree that there is some things missing, but GotMead should be the first stop AFTER someone finds out that mead making is interesting and wants to try it out. This video shows people how easy it can be, and any truly inspired and motivated brewer will make the effort to go forward and check out gotmead or some books.
I dont want to seem like Im ranting at you or anything, I do appreciate your bluntness, haha.
And to BHolt, definitely check out Got Mead if you havent already. But what you have there is just fine by the way of mead. Your video will definitely get many people interested in mead making.
As far as constructive critisicm:
1.) You can use campden tablets to sanitize the must if you want, just crush one per gallon and drop it in and cover jug with a cloth, wait at least 12 hours, then pitch yeast.
2.) mead is tough on yeast because of acidity and lack of nutrients, so rehydrating according to the package is one of the easiest steps to producing better quality mead.
3.) Use a yeast nutrient, or use DAP and some boiled yeast slurry, (instead of yeast hulls). The boiled slurry can be boiled bakers yeast.
4.) not many one gallon recipes use less than 2.5 lbs of honey.
5.) Different yeast strains will produce different meads.
6.) To get "bubbly" mead, produce a dry mead, and then add some sugar or honey before bottling. I would advise reading up on the process as getting bottle bombs is easy.
