Recipe for Mead

Mead or Honey Wine

Mead is produced by fermenting honey and water and depending on the ratio of honey to water and/or the type of yeast used, will dictate if a dry or sweet mead is produced.  Our recipe for mead has won awards.

Mead has been widely produced throughout history and around the world. Variations on the basic recipe of honey and water can be made. Sometimes additions of herbs and fruit are included in the recipe producing different variations on colour and flavour.

Meads that contain additional ingredients are given other names, such as Melomel, for those that contain fruit, or Metheglin for those that contain spices.

Ingredients (Makes a Dry Mead)

  • 1.5 Kg of Honey
  • 6 pints of water
  • 1 teaspoon of yeast nutrient
  • Juice of a lemon
  • 2 table spoons cold tea
  • 1 vitamin B1 tablet
  • Chablis Yeast

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How to make the mead

  1. Heat the water and honey to 70 degrees centigrade ensuring both are mixed thoroughly.
  2. Allow the mixture to cool to 21 degrees centigrade and mix in the other ingredients finally sprinkling the yeast on the surface.
  3. Leave the mixture to ferment.
  4. Once fermentation has completed, the mead will clear. Once clear it can be bottled.

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Due to the loss of our bees we will not be selling honey for the foreseeable future.

Produced by our bees in Bickington and harvested using craft skills and traditional methods.  Our Honey is unadulterated, filtered and not heat treated, and therefore retains all its natural properties.

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Description

Flavour

Our bees are located in our fields between Bickington and Fremington, just on the outside of Barnstaple, North Devon. They forage for nectar in the hedges lining the fields, local trees as well as local gardens. In our opinion, the honey shows the characteristics of a traditional English honey, smooth but floral with hints of fudge and citrus.

Granulated Honey

All natural and unprocessed honey will crystallise over time.  Depending on which flowers the bees have been visiting will depend on how quickly the honey granulates or goes solid.  Processed liquid honey bought in the super market, is treated to stop granulation.  This is often done through heating the honey.  This process destroys the natural properties of the honey removing the benefits and altering the taste.

At Chilcotts Farm our honey is Pure and Untreated.  All we do is filter our honey after it has been extracted.

The fact that honey crystallises and granulates, is the best evidence that you have a quality pure product.  However, if you prefer liquid honey you can restore it to a liquid state by gently heating the honey.  To do this:

  1. Loosen the lid of the jar, and stand the honey jar in a bowl of hot water.
  2. Gently stir the honey until the honey becomes liquid again.

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Additional information

Availability

Normally available in August or September

Allergy Advice

May help pollen allergies

Origin

Produced in Devon, United Kingdom

Ingredients

Pure Filtered Unadluterated Honey

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