Simple Traditional Mead - How to Make a Basic Dry Mead

Simple traditional mead. How to make a Basic Dry Mead Recipe. Traditional Mead is honey wine, made with honey, water and yeast. There are thousands of ways to make it and thousands of additions you can make. Our goal is to keep it simple, keep it safe and make good tasting mead and show you how simple mead can really be. Look around the internet for a while on mead and you will find LOTS of information on how to make mead. If you're new to making mead, don't be discouraged. When starting out, learn how to make a simple mead, learn the basics of meadmaking and you can expand from there.

Ingredients:
2.5 lbs Honey (Thank you Bev's Bees!)
1 cup steeped Black Tea (We used Assam. Thanks Adam!): https://amzn.to/3e1NnBX
Orange Peel
Water to Fill to 1 Gallon (We used 88 ounces)
Red Star Premier Classique Wine Yeast: https://amzn.to/3vsrp0M
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