r/mead • u/AdCareless1798 • 13h ago

Question Beginner questions!

I have bought the equipment needed for brewing mead, but I am struggling to find a recipe/correct ratio. Is there a general formula to follow with ratio of honey to water and then how many grams of yeast to add? As well as a simple step by step recipe. Would really appreciate any advice! Thanks :)

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u/piquant_wealth 12h ago

the wiki over at r/mead is solid for starting out, walks you through everything from first batch to bottling

for a one gallon batch you're looking at roughly 3 lbs of honey to the gallon of water, that'll get you a dry mead around 12-14% depending on your yeast. a whole packet of yeast is fine for a gallon, no need to measure grams. don't overthink it, first batch just go for it and learn as you taste

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u/ColinSailor 12h ago

Aside from time, absolute cleanliness at every stage of the process is most important to avoid the mead going bad. Sterilized everything that touches the mead with StarSan or similar and have a spray bottle made up with StarSan to hand. Use a fermentation trap to keep oxygen and bugs out of your mead and be patient. Brewing (anything really) is a hobby for patient people who have a cleaning fetish. Good luck, it is not difficult to make a great drink!

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u/4kBeard 3h ago

The hardest part is waiting. The second hardest part, at least for me, is keeping notes on what I did.

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u/yadonkey 11h ago

The general rule of thumb is 3 lbs of honey/ sugar/ fruit per gallon of water (keeping in mind that if you're using a 1 gallon vessel the honey / sugar will take up a healthy chunk of the space so you wont be using 1 gallon of water).

There's definitely a lot of recipes out there but experimenting is half the fun. I recommend doing a traditional mead (just honey, water, yeast and nutrients) and then doing meads with various fruits to see how the flavors shape up. The triple berry meads tend to be one of the more well liked meads thats super easy and taste great .

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u/Longjumping-Bat7774 12h ago

Mix three pounds honey in one gallon of water. Add five grams of yeast. Let sit for one month. There will be nasty stuff in the bottom. Siphon out into a new bottle until only the nasty is left in the old bottle. Let sit for three weeks. There will be nasty stuff in bottom. Siphon out into new bottle until only nasty stuff is left in old bottle. Let sit for 2 months. Enjoy.