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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 329338" data-attributes="member: 13090">Process-wise making mead is really no different than making beer from extract. The main thing, in my opinion anyway, is sanitation. While good sanitation is crucially important when making beer, sanitation importance is about off the scale when making mead because honey takes so damn long to ferment. In short, your gear has got to really be clean because any undesirable yeasts in your carboy are going to have lots and lots of time to do their undesirable thing and you don't want that. I love me a good mead but damn they take a long time to make and mature. My best mead recipe required one... full... year... from (yeast) pitch to (drinking) glass. If memory serves that was about nine months in the carboy and another three months (give or take) in the bottle. There are faster meads, much faster, to be sure; but the best ones I've had take lots of time and lots of patience.Meads are special though... In a way I can't quite explain. There's a certain magic about them. If you've brewed mead and you're nodding your head right now, you probably know what I mean.........</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 329338, member: 13090"] Process-wise making mead is really no different than making beer from extract. The main thing, in my opinion anyway, is sanitation. While good sanitation is crucially important when making beer, sanitation importance is about off the scale when making mead because honey takes so damn long to ferment. In short, your gear has got to really be clean because any undesirable yeasts in your carboy are going to have lots and lots of time to do their undesirable thing and you don't want that. I love me a good mead but damn they take a long time to make and mature. My best mead recipe required one... full... year... from (yeast) pitch to (drinking) glass. If memory serves that was about nine months in the carboy and another three months (give or take) in the bottle. There are faster meads, much faster, to be sure; but the best ones I've had take lots of time and lots of patience. Meads are special though... In a way I can't quite explain. There's a certain magic about them. If you've brewed mead and you're nodding your head right now, you probably know what I mean. [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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