Honey/Mead Wine

I want to try to make only 1 gallon of honey wine. Is it possible? If so, does anyone have a recipe for only 1 gallon?

1 qt honey, 3 qt water, nutrient, yeast....

Or look up Joes ancient orange mead. The directions do not agree with all we say here, but follow them and it should come out fine for you. Mead takes a long time to finish, but it can be worth the wait. Arne.

LA, to rephrase Arne, most folks say mead has to age at least a year to be any good...FYI

Go check out this site. http://www.stormthecastle.com/mead/mead-recipes.htm
I have one of his sweet mead recipes going. Also have made the JOAM, which is aging and have made a mead from my equipment kit recipe book.
Maybe it is the time issue, as none of mine are more than 4 months old, but I have yet to come up with one I really like. Maybe after letting them sit over a year will change that.
We have a local meadery that makes an unbelieveable mead. Very smooth. Wish I could get that recipe.

saramc said:

1 qt honey, 3 qt water, nutrient, yeast....

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That sound easy enough. Thanks!

Arne said:

Or look up Joes ancient orange mead. The directions do not agree with all we say here, but follow them and it should come out fine for you. Mead takes a long time to finish, but it can be worth the wait. Arne.

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I have read that it takes a long time.

Stressbaby said:

LA, to rephrase Arne, most folks say mead has to age at least a year to be any good...FYI

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It has to age at least a year!!????? I should have started this LAST year. lol

wineforfun said:

Go check out this site. http://www.stormthecastle.com/mead/mead-recipes.htm
I have one of his sweet mead recipes going. Also have made the JOAM, which is aging and have made a mead from my equipment kit recipe book.
Maybe it is the time issue, as none of mine are more than 4 months old, but I have yet to come up with one I really like. Maybe after letting them sit over a year will change that.
We have a local meadery that makes an unbelieveable mead. Very smooth. Wish I could get that recipe.

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Thanks for the link.

Wineforfun,
try making a melomel, a mead with fruit, I make mine with the same triple berry fruit that I use for my Dragons blood, I've used wildflower honey, and I look forward to adding the Orange Blossom Honey that I recently acquired from Florida...Thanks Phil!
The berry Melomel is good at 2-4 months, great at 6 months, and I'm sure it will be outstanding at a yr, it wone a medal at the Missouri Valley Wine Society competition.

Pumpkinman is correct that most fruit meads will be good to drink much sooner than a basic honey/water mead. I can make a berry melomel and bottle in seven months start drinking in another two....it is how I make my raspberry melomel if pressed for time. Good stuff. I've been accumulating the organic juices as I catch them on sale so I can make this one using black currant, black cherry and blueberry...http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/news/show?title=romance-by-the-glass
Though I am tempted to just order concentrates from homewinery.com

Pumpkinman said:

Wineforfun,
try making a melomel, a mead with fruit, I make mine with the same triple berry fruit that I use for my Dragons blood, I've used wildflower honey, and I look forward to adding the Orange Blossom Honey that I recently acquired from Florida...Thanks Phil!
The berry Melomel is good at 2-4 months, great at 6 months, and I'm sure it will be outstanding at a yr, it wone a medal at the Missouri Valley Wine Society competition.

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Tom,
I did make the DB version with honey and you are correct, it is very good at the 2-4 month mark. I am trying to make a straight show-type mead and having troubles getting it like I want.
I still have 2 bottles of the DB melomel left that I am saving for that 1 yr. mark.

I cut the lemon out for the melomel and added a bunch more fruit, it got plenty of acidity from the fruit. One thing that I started to do soon after the first batch of Db went so fast....I adjusted the recipe for 8 gallons.

I stuck with just one bottle of lemon juice. I like the idea of using more fruit.

Good move on the 8 gallons.