Recipe for mead (honey wine)

The following recipe for mead, or honey wine, is taken from Food From Your Garden (1977).

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg (3 lb) honey
• 20 g (¾ oz) citric acid
• 1 level teaspoon grape tannin
• 4 l (7 pints) water
• Maury yeast and nutrient

Method

Dissolve the honey in warm water, pour it into a fermentation jar and, when cool, add the acid, tannin, nutrient and yeast. Top up with cold water, fit an airlock to the jar and store it in a warm place until fermentation is complete.