Jay's Brewing Blog

One of the things about mead is that you can really do what ever you want.  It sometimes becomes confusing for newbies in the mead world to figure out what recipes to do.  Well I can assure you this is a great mead recipe.  This is a ginger mead, so get ready for a bit […]

Mead in general is pretty easy to make.  Honey, water, yeast – and that’s just about it.  This recipe for mead is called a sack mead.  This mead is sweet, light and true to the mead heritage.  If you refer back to an earlier post you can find out about different types of meads that […]

To start with the, “Mead Project”, I thought a good recipe should be a Melomel.  It will be easy to start with this one because fresh fruit is available at the farmers market as well as at grocery stores. If you recall from our 101 on mead,  melomels are fruit meads.  So this is kinda like a […]