Blueberry Mead

Classification: mead, melomel, blueberry

Source: Jonathan Corbet (gaia!jon@handies.ucar.edu) 11/28/88

This mead usually comes out quite dry. This recipe makes 6-1/2 gallons.

Ingredients: (for 6-1/2 gallons)

7-10 pounds, fresh blueberries
1-2 pounds, corn sugar
1-2 ounces, hops (Cascades is fine)
10 pounds, honey
yeast
lemon grass tea (optional)

Procedure:

To make 6-1/2 gallons of mead, Boil the honey, sugar, and hops for at least an hour (although boiling honey is not favored by most digest subscribers, it works fine and is the method used by Papazian). Clean berries and mash well. Put mashed berries, hot wort, and enough water to make 6-1/2 gallons into a fermenter. Pitch yeast. After one week, strain out berries and rack to secondary. Ferment at least one more month and then bottle, priming with corn sugar and perhaps some lemon grass tea. Age 6 months to a year.

Specifics:

Primary Ferment: 1 week