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A Recipe for Mead

A Recipe for Mead Elizabeth Scheyder This is a good recipe for beginners – the quantity fits in an empty gallon wine jug, and you won’t spend a fortune on ingredients or equipment. I can’t take credit for the recipe, since it came from a newsgroup called ‘mead-lovers-digest’, which I can’t find anymore. It’s attributed to Cher Feinstein, late of the University of Florida, so it has a good university pedigree, and is dated September 1989. I took that recipe, tried it a couple of times, and made it ‘my own’. Basic concepts about making mead: Making mead is really very simple. When you add spices to the basic honey/water/yeast mixture, it’s technically called a metheglin. You will be adding wine yeast (or sherry or champagne yeast) to do the fermenting. Ingredients: 2 or 3 cloves, lightly cracked 2 sticks of cinnamon, cracked dash of cardamom 2 to 4 teaspoons fresh lemon zest (just the thin yellow part, not the white part of the peel) 1 packet of wine yeast* ¼ cup vodka or grain alcohol Equipment:

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