Mead is honey wine. It is made when honey is diluted and allowed to ferment. Mead is thought by many to have been the first alcoholic beverage made by humans. Learn about honey, the equipment for making mead, yeasts and fermentation, recipes and formulas, fermentation, racking and aging, bottles, closures, sparkling mead, proples with mead making and home analysis and judging mead.

Customer Review: Small but good

This one is for a serious beginner to intermediate brewer. The author is a professional mead and wine judge with a wealth of experience and a few tricks that surprised me especially for the small size of the book. It skimps out on recipes though. It should be noted that this is written by an experienced mead judge.

Customer Review: Not the best book for beginners.....

If you are looking for a step-by-step instruction guide on the process of making mead, this is not the book for you. While he does not spend much time on history, he spends most of the book telling about the chemicals and make-up of mead and it's components. And the processes that he does give, are quite vague. The recipes that are included (which are few) are all based on chemical components, rather than natural processes. However, the book is well written and very easy to read. Another problem I found with the book, is that it is 20 years old. And being written based on the chemical aspect, this could mean that it is outdated. There are however, a few good points of information throughout the book. But if you are looking for a step-by-step "instruction book", this is perhaps not the best choice.

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