Jan 22, 2015 · As an example, you can make a 1 gallon hydromel with roughly 1.5-1.75 pounds of honey. Less time to produce a finished mead: There are only a handful of recipes that are over 10% ABV and are finished in under 3 months (JAOM and BOMM) come to mind.

Jun 17, 2023 · You have not made a hydromel. That much honey into that little of water will yield a mead of ~ 14.5% ABV, while a Hydromel will usually be below 8 or 9% though often close to 6%. If your total mixed volume was 15L, then you would be about 5.5% ABV You are likely going to have a bit of a wait on your time for the flavors to integrate and smooth.

May 25, 2015 · Technically "hydromel" is an old term for mead in general, but these days its english use generally refers to a mead of less than 8-9% ABV. So if you were to enter a competition with your meads, those would be entered as hydromels yeah. It's interesting to note that an old english definition from 1913, defines hydromel as unfermented mead.

Jun 2, 2013 · I happened across a bucket (60lbs) of heather honey and I have some heather tips kicking around from last year sometime. I figure that with a hydromel you probably need a pretty assertively flavored honey, so heather really speaks to me. If you haven't tried it (its hard to find) imagine a honey that is a lot more viscous than you're used to.

May 28, 2020 · I prefer lalvin brand yeasts. Lalvin RC212 is great for fruit wines/melomels and it does like a higher temp range. It can ferment all through the 80*F range with little fusel alcohols. Only problem is that it is a nutrient hog and for a hydromel I would suggest going a little heavy on nutrient and energizer.

Apr 13, 2015 · Just tapped a 5 gallon keg of simple orange blossom hydromel, which I backsweetened to medium-sweet with 1lb of monk fruit (aka lo han guo). Came out amazing with no weird taste like you would get from stevia. Tastes just like sugar and can be measured the same at at 1:1 ratio. And it's apparently unfermentable to yeast!

Mar 13, 2022 · Hi there I am going to make a sparkling or hydromel mead. For making 9 litres of hydromel how much honey do I need? People say it shouldn't be above 8% abv or else it won't be hydromel , is that true? I am aiming around 8% abv.

Jan 31, 2019 · I already saw the hydromel tutorial from "City Steading" youtube channel, and thought that in order to achieve the low ABV I just need to add less sugars (honey) on the primary fermentation. The problem comes when I think about carbonating the drink, it will probably eat the sugar again so the drink won't be sweet.

Dec 1, 2020 · Good evening folks I been wanting to make a hydromel for awhile now, and I was thinking about making a dry-hopped hydromel with fresh blood orange with a ABV around 6%. I was thinking adding the blood orange during primary fermentation and hopping the hydromel later in secondray along with some...

Apr 21, 2011 · My first attempt at a Sage Wildflower Hydromel is stuck! after 6 weeks of fermenting in a 5 gallon carboy in my fermenting fridge at a constant 64 degrees with Lavlin 71B-1122, my SG is resting at 1.050, OG was 1.116 at 70 degrees, putting my current ABV around %8.8 I'd tried adding additional DAP and Fermaid K which seems to help a little but ...