Mead recipes scale more or less linearly. As far as yeast, the recommended pitch rate for mead is 2g/gal. For small batches lots of people just round up to the packet. Honey and fruit are …
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Those are the only things you technically need to make a delectable mead. However, you may want to jazz up the mead recipe with some other additions, including fruits, spices, and carbonation. Generally, you first combine the honey and water. Then yeast is tossed in for fermentation.
In this recipe, you can choose exactly how sweet you'd like your wine to be. We'll go over it in further detail later, but we recommend using between two and three pounds of honey per gallon of mead — 2 pounds if you want it on the dryer side, and 3 pounds if you'd like it to be sweeter. Okay, now let's get started!
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Optionally, you can put your 5 gallons of mead into a keg. To bottle your mead, you will need tubing, a bottle filler, and an auto-siphon. If you already homebrew beer, then this step should be familiar. Turn on the siphon then fill each bottle through the filler.