Crispy Hydromel Session Mead
A crisp, crushable honey-forward session mead
Servings: 5 gallons
Equipment
- 1 5-gallon Fermenter ensure proper headspace
- 1 airlock
- 1 long-handled spoon
- 1 siphon
- 1 bottling wand if bottling
- 1 kegging system if kegging
Ingredients
- 6 lbs Good quality honey in primary
- 3 grams malic acid in primary
- 1 gram citric acid in primary
- 3 grams wine tannin in primary
- 4.75 gallons water in primary
- 1 packet wine or ale yeast in primary
- 1 lb honey if kegging
- 1 lb erythritol if bottle conditioning
- 6 grams Fermaid-O Use meadtools.com to calculate other nutrient options if not using Fermaid-O
- 5 oz Priming sugar if bottle conditioning
Instructions
- Blend all primary ingredients.
- Pitch yeast.
- Affix airlock on fermenter.
- After 24 hours, add nutrients.
- After 2 weeks, check the hydrometer reading to ensure mead has completed fermentation.
- Transfer to secondary and allow to clear.
- Once clear, add sweetener. Note: stabilize if sweetening with honey and kegging. DO NOT stabilize if sweetening with erythritol and bottle conditioning.
- Keg and carbonate OR add priming sugar and bottle.
- Serve chilled. Bottle conditioning may take 4-6 weeks.