Prepping to make 10 gallons of mead this weekend with friends and family. If you never have.. simple as can be. Just remember to disinfect anything that will touch your mead.
One Gallon of Mead:
3lbs Honey
2g yeast
Heat water to 100f, dissolve honey. Cool to 70f and add hydrated yeast
Ferment for 6 weeks. Bottle rest for 2 weeks.
I’ve made a lot of shine, always wanted to distill a mead. I’ll be trying this out. Thank you!
I’ve messed around freeze distilling Apple Jack. I’ve never hear distilled. Would love to apprentice one day.
never *heat distilled
Well I can say this, Apple Jack is dangerous and this is why….methanol is always a fractional presence in all fermented beverages. The antidote for methanol poisoning is roughly, ethanol consumption. With beer and wine, the methanol percentages are low enough relative to water and ethanol to not be a concern, but when you concentrate by removing frozen water it’s a recipe for trouble, at least a headache and maybe blindness and death in large amounts. When distilling it’s imperative to heat above the evaporation temp for methanol, about 150F, maintain for ten minutes, then attach your distilling rig and increase the temperature above the BP for ethanol, roughly 180F. I use lab glass to distill, I’d be happy to offer advice and the small cadre of accumulated wisdom I have from making mistakes. 😁
