This Irish-inspired take on mead is not green! Rather, it uses barley, heather tips, and elderflowers to create something truly unique and unusual. This is the first video in a series — we will also rack, fine, and bottle condition this mead.
Part Two Video:
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Traditional Irish Mead made with barley, heather tips, and elderflowers.
Ingredients
- 2# raw honey
- 1/2# light LME
- 2oz heather tips
- 1/3 cup elderflowers
- D47 yeast
- 1oz dextrose at bottling for bottle-conditioning
Instructions
- Split heather tips into thirds and elderflowers in halves
- Steep 1/3 of the heather tips in half gallon of 150-160F water for half an hour
- Strain mash and mix with LME, 1/3 of the heather tips and 1/2 of the elderflowers
- Boil one hour
- Chill over an ice bath to near room temperature
- Pour through a strainer into fermentation vessel over the remaining heather tips and elderflowers as well as the honey
- Top up with spring water to one gallon
- Ferment dry with D-47 yeast
- Allow to clear
- Mix in with 1oz of dextrose and bottle immediately
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