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ValhallaBound:
I am new to primitive archer and am wondering if anyone has any information about the mead making process and/or any recipes they would be willing to share.

DanaM:
Here's a thread on it, only one I remember seeing. Welcome to PA :)

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,3730.0.html

JW_Halverson:
I've brewed enough mead over the years to drown a pig in it.  Wait a minute...I resemble that remark.  *burp*

There are many websites on the 'net that can help you out.  Just remember to sterilize everything over and over.  Fortunately there are no deadly bacteria that can grow in an environment where yeast is brewing, or so I have been advised by a professional vintner.  On the downside, there are billions of the little blighters out there that like to make mead, wine, beer, cyser, pyment, metheglin, etc taste like gut-shot skunk pus.

Start small with one gallon batches to find out what you like, no sense brewing a 17 gallon demijon of something you can't stand. 

At this time I have a 5 gallon batch of raspberry mead finishing initial fermentation.  It will eventually be bottled with a touch more honey to make a sparkling wine (a.k.a. fizzy hiccup juice).

Karly:
Her how i do it ..

the first day i mix the yeast and four spoons of white flour and a pinch of salt with 1 L Applejuice in a mug. i cover it with a dish towel and wait a week.
This mixture is needed to start the fermentation a bit quicker because Honey is a bit antiseptic....

one week later i take 6 Kilogrammes of Honey and 3 Kilogrammes of Sugar and dissolve it in 25 Liter 35°C warm water. I wait afterwards a few hours for the cool down under 30 °C and i mix now my applejuiceyeastmixture with the Honeywater i put the fermentation plug on the barrel and wait.....
3-5 days later you will here a gurgling in the Barrel and the fermentation starts....

ValhallaBound:
Thank you all for your help and I appreciate any further info anyone may have on the topic of mead recipes and/or brewing. Thanks again and I am glad that I was able to join you all her at PA. :)

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