Rating: - The truth about 1st batch to award winning meads
Ken's book was the first printed source for meadmaking that I read. It is very informative about many things including details on varietal honey and specifics about the harvesting process. The technical information about honey vareities is also very useful.
The recipes are few but good. I gained enough knowledge about the use of honey, fruits and spices to formulate many of my own recipes. This book helps to partner good information and techniques with your own creativity and imagination to make excellent mead right from the start.
My wife and I bought this book in June 2003 at the AHA conference in Chicago. We started making mead in August 2003. In 2004 we won a gold medal at the AHA National Homebrew Competition and in ... Read More:
Rating: - Bee fermented
An interesting, well written and laid out book. There's lots of useful information and scientific detail, aimed more at the experienced winemaker, and for the beginner there's a short introduction to the basics. There are eleven recipes but this is not just another recipe book - it gives you a basis for experimentation, search the Net if you want more ideas.
I am a long practised home winemaker (hic!), of both kit and country wines, and have just started keeping bees on a small scale so the production of mead seems the next natural step.
A real plus is that it includes more chemistry and scientific study information than most other books on brewing (and beekeeping). The chapter on yeast and fermentation includes the chemical ... Read More: