Recoil-operated’s $12 traditional mead:
So one of the most common things I see on my Mead posts is “I’d love to do that, but I don’t have the stuff”
We’ll sit down and buckle up. Because I’m about to show you how to make a $12.56 traditional mead.
Here’s the recipe:
1 gallon Deer Park/spring water. You don’t want distilled.
3 lb or 32 fluid ounces honey.
One package of yeast.
a party balloon.
The cost total is $13.49, but you only need one pack of yeast. So -$0.90.
Let’s begin:
Everything together on a clean work surface, you will need a clean glass. And while not entirely necessary, a measuring cup will be handy.
Pour a cup of water for yourself and drink it. Hydration is important. Also this will allow you headspace.
Remove about ehhhhh, a quart or so of water to drink later.
Trust me. You’re going to want it
Wash your drinking cup and mixing about a teaspoon of honey.
You have two options for yeast, that bread yeast we bought, or professional brewer’s yeast.
They’re both the same price. You can get brewers yeast off of Amazon.
I already have brewer’s yeast, so I’m using brewer’s yeast
Stick that in that honey water.
Stick your honey in some hot water.
Go outside. Breath the free air. Know what it is… To truely live.
Enough of that bitch. Honey’s hot. Put it in the water.
Put the water in the honey too.
Shake the sin out of it.
Put that stuff back in the big bitch.
Shake the sh*t outta it.
Hydrate yourself with the water you removed earlier.
Shank a balloon with a pin.
Add your yeasty honey water.
Balloon it.
Label it.
If your trad mead says anything racist, or anything positive about Hitler. Straighten that sh*t out.
And there you go. $12 (.56) traditional mead. Stick it somewhere dark and leave it alone for a while.
Shake the hell outta it once a day for the first four days. Then let it be until it’s clear.
Update:
Boozification has begun.
Lots of spices and herbs make for nice additions as well.
Good post.
Who the hell are you to tell your sentient trad mead what to think?
I’m it’s creator. I have deemed racism to be sin.
I have a similar method and it works well! Fun fact: do not get drunk on it alone, it’s like wine drunk but much much worst.
Never been drunk off it. I’m a one glass and done kind of guy. I usually make 12-18% still meads, and lower 4-10% sparkling. I need to bottle two traditionals, a mountain wild honey and a Georgia Orange honey. And an applebomb “Double Dutch” Cyser.
Then I need to redo my Devil’s Due: Murder of crows dark berry sack mead. That’ll be 18-24%+ and I’ll probably have bottles of it left for my children to drink when they turn 21.
A reminder to myself that I need to make more mead. I’m almost out. Yo Recoil… is four 44oz bottles of honey overkill for a ~5gal batch?
That’ll give you about 7.3% ABV.
Mmmmm. I’m gonna try this
