Ale Mead
Classification:
mead, metheglin
Source: Todd Saulnier (af659@cfn.cs.dal.ca),
r.c.b., April 27, 1995
I have recipe for an ale mead. I don't know how similar it might be but
you might try it.
[While some mead makers do not think hops belong in mead, I see
no problem with considering them to be like any other herb, and
thus appropriate to the metheglin style. --- Ed.]
Ingredients: (for 1 gallon)
- 1 lb Honey
- 1 oz Hops
- Brewers Yeast
- 1 oz Citric Acid
- 1 gal water
- nutrients
Procedure:
Boil honey & water and most of hops for 45 min. Add remainder of hops
about the 40 min. mark. Strain hops. Add citric acid & nutrients. Let
cool overnight. then add water to 1 gal mark. add yeast and let ferment
to completion, skimming off yeast daily as for beer. Allow to settle for
a few days after fermentation. Bottle in 1 qt bottles with 1 tsp suger
in bottles. after 2-3 days in warm area (so that bottle fermentaion
occurs) place in cool area and treat as bottled beer.