MODERNIZING Joe's Ancient Orange Mead - How To Make Mead At Home

Like many homebrewers and meadmakers, we are quite familiar with one of the internets most well known mead recipes. Today we'll be trying our own modern version of the infamous Joe's Ancient Orange Mead (JAOM, or JOAM). The original recipe encouraged homebrewers to make mead at home, and required no special brewing techniques or equipment - and everything could be bought from your local grocery! We're going to update it and use proper techniques, proper brewing yeast and a proper nutrient schedule.

The Recipe (5 gallons) -
17 1/2 pounds of honey
1 whole orange
4 oranges (zest, juice, and flesh only)
5 cinnamon sticks
3 clove
Water to 5 gallons
4tsp Fermaid O
2tsp Fermaid K
1tsp Potassium Carbonate
Wyeast 1388 starter
4tsp Fermaid O at 48 hours and 96 hours.

Mix all the ingredients together and pitch yeast. Install airlock and add nutrients on day 2 and day 4. Don't forget to shake or stir it several times a day for the first 4 days! We aren't sure if we're going to backsweeten this, we'll let you know as soon as we do!

SG - 1.140
FG - 1.015

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Buy everything you need to make mead, all in one place!

We recommend starting with this beginner equipment kit from MoreBeer -
https://www.morebeer.com/products/hom...

This one gallon mead making kit from Home Brew Ohio is perfect for making Joe's -
https://www.homebrewohio.com/home-bre...

You can buy the stainless steel stirring rod, here - https://www.homebrewohio.com/the-stai...

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