Making Your Own Mead: 43 Recipes for Homemade Honey Wines

by Peter Duncan, Bryan Acton

Overview

Once the drink of choice for Viking marauders and medieval kings, mead is enjoying a renaissance in popularity. The "nectar of the gods" is easy to make at home. This practical guidebook will inspire you to take up the craft, with a basic guide to mead-making techniques plus 43 recipes for brewing the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. Discover how to make different types of mead like fruit-flavored melomels, grape-based pyments, spiced metheglins, and apple cysers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565237834
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2013
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Peter Duncan is a recognized expert in the field of winemaking and has published several books on the subject.

Bryan Acton is a leading expert on home brewing, publishing several influential books on wine and mead making. His honors include President of the Tunbridge Wells Guild and a member of the Greenhill Wine Guild.

Table of Contents

Preface Man's Oldest Drink Mead, Maids and Marriage Honeys for Mead Mead-Making Technique Mead Recipes Melomels Melomel Recipes Pyment, Hippocras, Metheglin, Cyser, with Recipes Other Honey Drinks

Editorial Reviews

"With easy to understand directions, and simple recipes for all types of honey wine, Making Your Own Mead provides a great reference to novice and expert meadmakers alike!"

Robert Rivelle George

"The techniques are sound, and the recipes are approachable and easy to follow. Whether you want to make mead, melomels, pyments, metheglins, or cysers, this is the book you should get. It will be the book I pick up when I make my next batch of mead."

Jim Rector

"As close-packed and efficient as a beehive, the compendious Making Your Own Mead: 43 Recipes for Homemade Honey Wines will assuredly quench any aspiring meathier's need for mead."

Vinogirl

As an experimental homebrewer, “Making Your Own Mead,” has inspired me to craft my own mead and take my place along with the Greeks, Romans, and Norsemen in the epic of man’s oldest drink!   

The Brewholder - Matt Brasch

"Making Your Own Mead is a quick concise book about mead and mead making. Those interested in mead can read about the history, connection with honeymoons and the basics of mead making. The home mead makers can read through the book quickly to get a general idea of the mead making process. Then return to the chapters dealing with types of honey, yeasts and meads they are interested in producing. There are many recipes to get you started."

Wine Trail Traveler Terry Sullivan