43 Recipes for Making Delicious Homemade Mead from Your Own Honey

Madison jade dickey: My husband is loving the book as he makes his first batch of mead! It is full of great information and he has thoroughly enjoyed reading it. A great compliment to their Mead Making Kit! 😊

United States on Jan 02, 2024

Amazon Customer: I like this book for the detailed history of mead and the recipes but it doesn't address all the beginner steps I would like (such as when and how often to degas, adding straight honey vs heating it up first) and the recipes can be very particular with using additives such as tannins which aren't very common in a lot of other recipes. This just adds a bit more complexity for someone starting off. Otherwise it was informative and overall helpful

United States on Nov 17, 2023

Nguyen: Probably a great book but not for beginners. It was too complicated for me.

United States on Jul 28, 2023

Roger: Good details on making made for first timers. Hand to buy again, lost the book

United States on Jul 13, 2023

Sharon: Exactly what I wanted

Australia on Feb 01, 2022

Sigurlína Thordardottir: Looking forward to try some of these recepies out...if I can find the ingr. Here in Iceland

United Kingdom on May 10, 2019

Lisa C.: A few recipes, very little background on actually making Mead. You're better to spend some time surfing the internet than buying this.

Canada on Oct 16, 2017

voltron: I have brewed mead for a long time, and Im always in the look out for new ideas. I have made many variants of mead, from Cheesecake strawberry melomel, to white chocolate mead. So im always on the look out for new ideas. Anyway i did a search for mead and this was one of the books that appeared. Since it was under ten, i gave it a shot. The book is a small book, but the quality of the print is excellent. While it appears to be a small book, it is straight foward and is loaded with recipes. I really like that they decided to to make the recipes for a one gallon run. This makes it easy to adjust amount if you want to say make a five gallon batch or a six gallon batch etc. Other books are not stadarized, i have seen books where the recipe is for one gallon, the next one for 2.5, the next for five etc. Some books i have seen dont even tell you the yield. . It just complicates matters by not being consistent with the final yeild. The recipes in this book are for one gallon batches and its easy to figure out what adjustments you need make if you want to make a larger batch. This nice thing is that since it is for gallon batches it is easy to set up an experimental batch of a specific...

United States on Jan 01, 2017

paul williams: Good book ,look forward to trying themail recites, thank you

United Kingdom on Feb 14, 2016

Mylène Bergeron Francoeur: First of all, I was surprised to notice the very small size of the book when I received it. There is only a total of 60 pages, which seems awfully low when talking about making mead. There is section covering the historical setting and sources, which takes about 1/3 of the book. Interesting, but if you already know a little about mead, you most likely will not learn much.

The mead making technique covers a mere 10 pages. It's very very basic, but there are several illustrations that help in having an idea about the setup one could like to deal with their beverage. There are 7 recipes for regular mead. They also devote a small section to melomels (fruit meads), totalling 14 recipes. Most of them are very basic, like "take the regular mead, add *choose your fruit*, and let ferment. While good, it lacks a lot of originality. Kudos for briefly talking about Pyment, Cyser and Metheglin and Hyppocras , and others drinks including honey, but then again, I'm kind of not really impressed about this book.

It's a very basic guide to mead. I would not use this book alone, as it lacks a lot of the information, in my opinion, about safety, being sanitary,potentials problems, etc....

Canada on Jul 02, 2014