So i decided to have a go at some homebrew Mead. Started it in July this year.
Ingredients.
4 lbs of Honey
4.5 litres of Mineral water.
2 oranges
Pack of raisens
Heated the honey up with a litre of water.
Added the other 3.5 litres to mixture and poured into Demijohn.
Pitched the Yeast. was a Garvin wine yeast.
Whilst the Yeast was proofing sterilised and cut the oranges into segments and added to the Demijohn with the Raisens.
Pitched yeast into Demijohn and left for 6 weeks to ferment.
![IMG_0135[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attachments/0/458-2121b2fe9d710793ee2da7878e3d8b07.jpg "IMG_0135[1].jpg")
![IMG_0146[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attachments/0/459-3e9d85a4c61cfa3478228ac9cdf09698.jpg "IMG_0146[1].jpg")
Racked to new Demijohn and left for a further 8 weeks.
![IMG_0185[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attachments/0/460-3ce4381cdab25a50eda90fc35b0effb2.jpg "IMG_0185[1].jpg")
![IMG_0186[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attachments/0/461-dc4f86d6664d0f10f53961764641847a.jpg "IMG_0186[1].jpg")
Pictures are not very good but cleared pretty nice.
Bottled to 10 750cl bottles.
![IMG_0187[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attachments/0/462-1a63ed823bfac0d6eeaa2b8207b9560d.jpg "IMG_0187[1].jpg")
So now to leave for 9 months to age and mature.
The other Demijohn that is red is a Strawberry Rose Wine I am trying which has brewed up nice and is quite light and dry.
Ingredients.
4 lbs of Honey
4.5 litres of Mineral water.
2 oranges
Pack of raisens
Heated the honey up with a litre of water.
Added the other 3.5 litres to mixture and poured into Demijohn.
Pitched the Yeast. was a Garvin wine yeast.
Whilst the Yeast was proofing sterilised and cut the oranges into segments and added to the Demijohn with the Raisens.
Pitched yeast into Demijohn and left for 6 weeks to ferment.
![IMG_0135[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attach/0/458-IMG-0135-1-.jpg "IMG_0135[1].jpg")
![IMG_0146[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attach/0/459-IMG-0146-1-.jpg "IMG_0146[1].jpg")
Racked to new Demijohn and left for a further 8 weeks.
![IMG_0185[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attach/0/460-IMG-0185-1-.jpg "IMG_0185[1].jpg")
![IMG_0186[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attach/0/461-IMG-0186-1-.jpg "IMG_0186[1].jpg")
Pictures are not very good but cleared pretty nice.
Bottled to 10 750cl bottles.
![IMG_0187[1].jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/thehomebrewforum/data/attach/0/462-IMG-0187-1-.jpg "IMG_0187[1].jpg")
So now to leave for 9 months to age and mature.
The other Demijohn that is red is a Strawberry Rose Wine I am trying which has brewed up nice and is quite light and dry.
