mead & rose wine

[wabbit955]

just bottle my first wines
and very happy with them to
mead is great
mead done with lavender is very good nice and dry with a fizz don't surpose it should have but very champange like :O)
rose wine is sweet but very good
just hopeing the rest are as good

[MKG]

You made mead on your first attempt? Good going, wabbit!

Don't wait - get the next lot going before you run out

Mike

[bill1953]

What recipe did you use? There are so many on the net it's confusing!

[wabbit955]

this is the one i use got it off the net to just looked for the easest one
just add lavevder and removed spices for other one
Mead
fresh water
4 x jars of 340g honey (light)
1 x stick cinnamon
30 x cloves (approx)
1 x medium sized orange
2 x teabags
Campden tablets (for sterilising equipment)
Wine yeast
Boil up 8.5 pints of water in the pan. When boiling... Add the honey and stir until dissolved
Heat until steaming hot (don't boil it). Some frothy scum will rise to the surface, skim it off with a spoon
Grate the orange zest off the orange and add. Squeeze in juice. add all the other spices
Make a strong cup of black tea. add it to the pan.

strain it into the demijohn.
now sprinkle a heaped teaspoon of yeast into the demijohn and apply the airlock with water in it.
Leave in a warmplace until fermentation has ceased (no more bubbles go through the airlock), then use the same racking method with the tube to transfer the mead into sterilised wine bottles. Cork them and store in a cool, dark place for a month before drinking.

[Keaniebean]

oo now Mead is something I have wanted to make for a long time. Thanks for the recipe.

[bill1953]

Thanks that sounds good!

[irigg]

hmmm how do you fit eight and half pints of liquid and all that honey into a one gallon demijohn??????????

ps

well done for making this as your first

[bill1953]

Don't know she does that for sure but I have no problem fitting that much liquid in meself!

[bill1953]

Just noticed your based Helston! Me and the brother visited the Blue Anchor in 1972 cos the paper said Spingo was the strongest beer ever!
Been back since a few times but repeating the trip this May travelling on no motorways as we did then!

[merlin]

I am going to give it a go this year Bulgaria is very productive with honney and roses, big thing here roses.

[merlin]

Just copying the recipe into word, can't help but notice the lack of rose, is there any rose in it?

[MKG]

I've been scratching my head. But then I saw that wabbit clearly said that both mead and rose wine had been made - separately. You need the recipe for the rose wine.

Mike

[merlin]

Ah, I see. Thought it migh have been like chocolate malt, no totally devoid of chocolate

[irigg]

Just noticed your based Helston! Me and the brother visited the Blue Anchor in 1972 cos the paper said Spingo was the strongest beer ever!
Been back since a few times but repeating the trip this May travelling on no motorways as we did then!

let me know when your here and maybe we can meet for a beer or several

[bill1953]

Just noticed your based Helston! Me and the brother visited the Blue Anchor in 1972 cos the paper said Spingo was the strongest beer ever!
Been back since a few times but repeating the trip this May travelling on no motorways as we did then!

let me know when your here and maybe we can meet for a beer or several

Will do. Should be the last weekend in May. Will let you know nearer the time!