Jack Ratt Lyme Bay Black Cherry Mead, 75 cl

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Still, mead is hard to find at the store — and even harder to find exactly the kind of mead you'd like to try at the store (and there are a LOT of different varieties). Now that your cherry mead is bottled and capped, store the bottles in a cool, dark place to age for several months. This will allow the flavors to meld and develop, resulting in a delicious, well-rounded beverage you can be proud of. Troubleshooting Cherry Mead Recipes Dealing with Sediment Next, prepare your cherries. You can use either fresh or frozen, but make sure they are pitted. Tart cherries work well for complex flavors, while sweet cherries provide a richer taste. Weigh out the correct amount, keeping in mind that 2-3 lbs is generally suitable for a 1-gallon batch. This is a semisweet melomel, or fruit mead, flavored with cherries, that finishes around 12 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). It’s a great mead for beginning mead-makers, because the added fruit avoids many of the problems associated with making mead from only honey. Optional additions: Some recipes call for additional ingredients like lemon juice, grape juice concentrate, or a vanilla bean to enhance the flavor and complexity of the mead.

It makes a bright, pretty mead that’s great as a summer drink... which is good, as it’ll be best after it’s been 8-12 months since starting the batch. Making Mead: A Complete Guide to the Making of Sweet and Dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment andCyser This allows the water and the honey to mix together. If it doesn't seem like there is enough water in the carboy to mix the honey, then add a little bit more, but not too much. You'll need the water for later. Cherry mead, like other meads, can take anywhere from 2 to 3 months up to a year or more to age properly. The fermentation process typically lasts for 10 to 14 days, followed by a secondary fermentation of 1 to 2 months. The aging process is crucial to allow the flavors to meld and mellow, resulting in a more harmonious and refined mead. It’s essential to be patient and let the mead age for the recommended time or until it reaches your desired flavor profile. Can I use cherry juice instead of whole cherries? Once the honey is in the one gallon carboy, open your spring water and pour about 1/4 a gallon of water into the carboy.

Here, we have looked at how to enjoy mead, from serving size suggestions to drinking temperature, and even the glassware you are best to enjoy it from! What is Mead? When you make mead, you're joining a tradition that's been around for centuries — it was the drink of choice for vikings, and the honey wine is gaining in massive popularity today. Spoon - Any type of spoon will work, as long as it is not wooden; wood can effect the taste of the mead and can cause other materials to be introduced to the mead. I use a plastic spoon in this example, but metal spoons work as well, just make sure it is long enough to reach the bottom of the large pot you will be using. You’ll probably have a bit left in the original honey jar, just add some warm water to the jar, shake it up, and pour that into the fermentation jug. Add a little more warm water to the fermentation jug until you have about the same amount of water and honey. Then, shake it all up! You'll want to shake it up for about 30 seconds — it's a good workout, too. Step Two: Fermentation

Once you’ve completed these steps, your cherry mead must is prepared for fermentation. You’ll need to pitch your chosen yeast into the must and maintain an optimal fermentation temperature to create a delicious cherry mead. Fermentation Stages Primary Fermentation Mead can be enjoyed either hot or cold, so the serving temperature will depend on how you want to enjoy your beverage. Cold Make Mead Like a Viking: Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermented, Honey-Based Wines andBeers This will give you an extremely dominant cherry flavored mead. Make sure to break this out for a halloween party with some vampire blood branding to really make a splash. Mead is wine made out of honey and water. If you can imagine the floral hints of honey without all the sweetness — that's a bit what mead tastes like. But it can be as sweet or as dry as you'd like!When it comes to brewing, creating your very own concoctions is always the best way to go. Try following these simple guidelines on mead brewing, and feel free to modify the ingredients or adjust the amount according to your liking. Who knows, you might end up making your very own foolproof Viking blod mead recipe.

And so… my theory, based on logic and research is that some upstart mazer in the 1300’s sought to capitalize on the name “Viking Blood” and started making a living selling it, likely much to the dismay of EVERYONE ELSE selling Cherry Mead and merely calling it… Cherry Mead. But in a similar way to wine, there is a process you can follow to really explore the depths of your mead, which we have outlined below: LookPour a small amount of mead into a glass and swill around the glass, where you should notice that it leaves behind a coating on the side of the glass. Scouring the internet, we find quite a few videos, articles, etc, and even a commercial product or two, and they all are indeed, cherry mead or cherry melomel (melomel is the name for a mead made with fruit). Pull the leaver on the siphon and you will be able to fill your bottle. Repeat this step until all the bottles are filled or your mead is at the bottom of the jar. Archaeological evidence puts mead as being one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world after traces of the honey-based drink were found in China over 9,000 years ago. This means mead has been enjoyed by some of history’s ancient civilisations, from the ancient Greeks to Norse marauders.