Easy Homemade Mead Recipe- 12% ABV and UNDER $6 a Bottle!

Let's make an easy and delicious homemade mead with ingredients you can easily get at your local grocery store. This recipe makes about 12% alcohol and is relatively cheap at just under $6 per bottle. Mead is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey. It's one of the oldest alcoholic drinks ever made and if you have some honey, you can make it yourself.

Mead doesn't have to be complicated, expensive or difficult. This mead comes out wonderful at just 4 weeks (on average). Anyone can do this. You will need a few basic pieces of equipment, but they can be purchased easily using our links below.

*** This is what we call a TLDR Cut (Too long, didn't read cut), so it's a step by step process but there's not a lot of explanation.

For a full explanation and process, see the link for the full video here:
   • EASY Mead Making Process - Grocery St...  

Ingredients:
2 1/4 lbs Honey
1 Packet Fleischmann's Active Dry Bread Yeast
108 fluid oz Drinking Water
Rind of 1 Mandarin Orange
Rind of 1 Lemon
1 ounce Raisins

Additions:
Honey to desired Sweetness (we went to a gravity reading of 1.030)

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