Can anyone recommend a good book on making Mead please?
I've just bought one called "Making your own Mead by Bryan Acton and Peter Doncan which is an easy read and full of nice pictures, some of bottles being filled and another of a brood frame.
As an experienced beer brewer and not so experieced bee keeper I could do with something a bit more technical.
Books on Mead
Re: Books on Mead
You may be better asking on Got Mead if you haven't already. They were quite quick answering my questions.
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Re: Books on Mead
For many years I only had two books on mead, the first from the UK, the second from the US, but with the bulk of the material, the non-brewing historical stuff, written by a man from the UK. Then I got one more book at an LHBS customer parking lot sale for $1.
They are:
1. Making Mead by Bryan Acton and Peter Duncan
2. Brewing Mead: Wassail! In Mazers of Mead by Charlie Papazian (recipes) and Robert Gayre (history)
3. The Compleat Meadmaker, by Ken Schramm
#1 is short, almost a pamphlet, and very old, but excellent. I highly recommend it. It's also the lowest priced of the three, bought new.
#2 is mostly historical stuff from an old UK racist, and a few boring recipes.
#3 is a good guide, and more modern.
If beekeeping is your thing, look here: https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about- ... ing-books/
They are:
1. Making Mead by Bryan Acton and Peter Duncan
2. Brewing Mead: Wassail! In Mazers of Mead by Charlie Papazian (recipes) and Robert Gayre (history)
3. The Compleat Meadmaker, by Ken Schramm
#1 is short, almost a pamphlet, and very old, but excellent. I highly recommend it. It's also the lowest priced of the three, bought new.
#2 is mostly historical stuff from an old UK racist, and a few boring recipes.
#3 is a good guide, and more modern.
If beekeeping is your thing, look here: https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about- ... ing-books/
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Re: Books on Mead
Thanks Laripu - I have started keeping bees this year so I have bought the first book you recommended. I have never even tasted mead but would like to make the best use of my crop
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Good luck.Jambo wrote:Thanks Laripu - I have started keeping bees this year so I have bought the first book you recommended. I have never even tasted mead but would like to make the best use of my crop
Try three different strength meads, 1.080, 1.095, and 1.110.
The first will be dry and delicate and ready in a year.
The third will be sweet and it will take at least 5 years for it to mature and for the flavours to integrate.
Secondary FV: As yet unnamed Weizenbock ~7%
Bulk aging: Soodo: Grocery store grape juice wine experiment.
Drinking: Mostly Canadian whisky until I start brewing again.
Bulk aging: Soodo: Grocery store grape juice wine experiment.
Drinking: Mostly Canadian whisky until I start brewing again.
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Thanks. No chance of winning a prize at my beekeepeer's association honey show this year then
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Re: Books on Mead
When you've tasted your own mead, you won't want to waste any on judges.Jambo wrote:Thanks. No chance of winning a prize at my beekeepeer's association honey show this year then
Secondary FV: As yet unnamed Weizenbock ~7%
Bulk aging: Soodo: Grocery store grape juice wine experiment.
Drinking: Mostly Canadian whisky until I start brewing again.
Bulk aging: Soodo: Grocery store grape juice wine experiment.
Drinking: Mostly Canadian whisky until I start brewing again.