Strawberry Mead
Mead Recipe
| Recipe Name: | Strawberry Mead |
| Style: | |
| Carbonation Level: | Still |
| Sweetness Level: | Sweet |
| Strength: | Sack |
| Volume: | 5 Gallon |
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| Description of this Mead |
| A sweet, tasty mead that a number of lady friends referred to as "liquid panty remover". It was delicious right out of the carboy, so didn't even last 6 months. (one day I may learn to set some bottles aside.) The first few days of the ferment were extremely active and foamy, so the carboy cap kept blowing off. |
| Fermentables |
| Amount & Type of Fementable (honey, fruit, grain, extract, sugar, etc.) |
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20 lbs. orange blossom honey - any mild tasting honey will likely be fine 18 qts fresh picked strawberries - pick the ones that are just starting to get over ripe |
| Other Ingredients |
| Amount & Type (herbs, spices, wood, finings, etc), When/Where Added |
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5 gal water pectic enzyme |
| Yeast | |
| Type of Yeast (e.g. Lalvin 71B) | Amount Pitched |
| Lalvin EC-1118 | 1 packet |
| Directions |
| Include mash temps/times, boil times, fermentation temps/duration, etc. |
| In a sparging bag, (if you can find them, the paint filter bags have a finer mesh and are about 1/10th the price) crush the berries and squeeze the juice out till you basically have a ball of paste. (for 18 qts, you'll end up with 4 or 5 softball sized blobs of pulp) Once this is done, bring your honey and water to a boil and do a protein skim. At this point, I place my immersion cooler in to sterilize it. Back the heat down so it's just simmering and let sit about 10 min. Turn off the heat and add the strawberry juice. Let sit about 15 min and chill the must to pitching temp. pitch the yeast and add the pectic enzyme. Warning: When I made this, the ferment was extremely active and foamy for nearly 4 days continuously blowing the cap off the carboy. (only batch I've made that did this) After that, it settled down a bit and I was able to keep the cap on, but continued to use a blowoff tube for a week or so. Rack as you see fit, and bottle or keg once it clears. |