Cranberry Mead

Classification: mead, melomel, cranberry mead

Source: John Wyllie (skl6p@cc.usu.edu) Mead Digest #25, 10/23/92

Ingredients: (for 2 gallons)

1 gallon, ocean spray cranberry juice (included a nice 1 gal glass ferementer!)
5 pounds, clover honey
1/2 teaspoon, yeast nutrient
1/2 teaspoon, acid blend
a handful of raising Red star champagne yeast

Procedure:

I added a campden tablet to the juice (24 hrs) then pasteurized the honey with water to make 1 gallon. I have two 1 gallon jugs for fermenting. I'm still waiting for the lag to end and ferement to begin. It has gotten cool in the basement, so I brought one upstairs, and pitched another sachet of yeast into the two jugs.