A Cheap & Simple Mead Tutorial for Beginners!
Channel: Man Made Mead
Date: 2024-01-04

Today I'm sharing my attempt at the cheapest mead possible while also walking you through the mead making process in a clear step by step explanation! This video took quite some time and I tried to be really thorough with all of my explanations. If you would prefer to watch a quicker tutorial, check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7tLIFcgts&t=2s .

Here are links to equipment and there is a recipe card below:

Glass Carboy (& Airlock): https://amzn.to/2QP7Mxm
Auto-Siphon and Tubing: https://amzn.to/2YXorU7
Hydrometer: https://amzn.to/31P3PPF
Star San (Sanitizer): https://amzn.to/32OhXYF
Scale: https://amzn.to/34TSAaL
Bottling Capper: https://amzn.to/3buC6at
Bench Capper (Optional): https://amzn.to/32LZZpY
Hand Corker: https://amzn.to/32MlxCO
Floor Corker (Optional): https://amzn.to/3gPgbvq
Wine Corks: https://amzn.to/3jCvQ2Y
Bottle Caps: https://amzn.to/3lNMHSD
Bottling Wand: https://amzn.to/3hR8rKH

Traditional Mead Recipe:

2.5 Pounds of Any Honey
2.5 Grams of Wine or Beer Yeast
2 - 3 Grams of Fermaid O or equivalent Yeast Nutrient
Water Up to 1 Gallon
-- Stabilize the Brew --
1/2 lb of Honey to Backsweeten

Steps to make a mead:

1.) Sanitize everything extremely well!
2.) Mix your ingredients
3.) Take a gravity reading and write it down
4.) Pitch your yeast into the mead and store in a place to start fermenting
Fermentation should take 14 - 20 days
5.) Check your gravity and rack when it's done fermenting
6.) Optional - Stabilize and Backsweeten if you want it sweeter
7.) Bottling time!

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0:00 Introduction
0:30 About todays mead recipe!
2:00 Equipment
3:45 Sanitizing Your Equipment
4:44 Mixing the must 
7:48 How to take a gravity reading
9:30 Adding the Yeast
11:30 What happens now?
13:00 Feeding our yeast?
15:36 24 Hours Later
17:07 Adding the Yeast Nutrient
21:10 Degassing Mead
21:48 18 Days Into Fermentation
23:10 30 Days Into Fermentation
25:00 Racking the Mead
28:30 Next Steps
29:00 Stabilizing/Pasteurizing
31:40 Backsweetening
34:00 Final Gravity Reading
34:40 Clearing the Mead
37:05 Bottling
40:15 Capping & Corking
42:00 Final Tasting
44:30 Other Recipe Ideas
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