DOM05A03 - Basic Mead Making, Part 2:

Making your first batch of Methyglyn Mead

(Created by Lord Liam Devlin)

Estimated Length of course: One (1) Hour

Level of Content: Beginner – Students should take part 1 before attending this class

Learning Objectives: By the end of this class the student should:

Know how to make their first batch of mead

Be familiar with the differences between Mead, Melomels, Cysers, and Methyglyns

Understand the importance and value of racking for clarity and finishing.

Recognize the importance and value of boiling/cooking your honey-mixture

Know when to/ not to add their yeast

Sources:

• The Meadery: Mead for the Masses (handout), printed from online source www.inetone.net/mshapiro/meadmass.html
• “The Making of Meads & Melomels”, Shadan [Downey, James T.]. Tournaments Illuminated no.82 (Spring 1987): 22-24.
• “Mead Making That Works”, Stuart, Caitlin [Frankel, Nancy]. Tournaments Illuminated (Summer 1981): 32.
• MacDonel, Anne, ed. The Closet of Sir Kenelme Digby Knight Opened, Whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin, Cherry-Wine, Sc. London: H. Brome, 1669; reprint, London: Philip Lee Warner, 1910.