How to Make Mead at HOME- Everything you Need to Make Your First Mead

How to Make Mead! Let's Make Mead - Make your First Mead with Honey at Home
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How to make Mead for Beginners Honey Mead. Simple, Quick Mead you can Make at Home Today. Oh, just because this first mead recipe is quick and easy doesn't mean it doesn't taste good. It's in my top 5 favorite mead recipes of all time!
Mead does not have to be difficult. Making Mead was something done in the home until fairly recently! We show you s quick and simple recipe for making your first mead. Yes, in this video we show you how to make your very first mead. You don't need a lot of equipment, but, honey is expensive, so you want to ensure you do this right so as to not waste it and the money needed. This is part one of a two part series on How to Make your First Mead. Try our simple mead recipe today!

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0:00 - Intro
0:16 - What you Need to Make Mead
2:06 - Why we are using Fleischmann's Bread Yeast
3:51 - Raisins in your Mead and Why they are REALLY there
6:22 - Let's Assemble the Mead
7:48 - The Importance of Sanitation in Mead Making
8:58 - Weighing the Honey for the Mead
11:12 - Adding Water to the Honey and Mixing to Aerate the Must
13:03 - Checking the Specific Gravity with a Hydrometer Reading
15:04 - Pitching Bread Yeast into the Must
16:34 - Adding an Airlock to the Fermenter and why
19:38 - What to Expect During Fermentation
21:09 - Fermentation of the Mead is Nearly Finished
23:28 - "Swirling" the Mead to Degas and Keep Fermentation Happy

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Ingredients:
 
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1/4 to 1/2 of an orange Citrus peel of your choice (we used dried Orange peel) 
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2 ounces Raisins chopped 
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