Metheglin

[TodesSchatten]

Ingredients

This is a 6 Gal recipe adjust down for smaller runs
24lbs Honey
2 C Mulling Spice* see below
3 T brewers spruce extract
1 packet Premier Cuvee Wine Yeast
Water
Ice

*Mulling Spice
Broken cinnamon stick
Cracked Allspice Berries
Whole Cloves
Bitter orange peel
Chopped Crystallized Ginger
Course Ground Nutmeg

Directions
Put mulling spice mix in cheese cloth and simmer in 1 Gal of water for 15 min then remove packet

Add honey and skim foam every 5 min for 30 min

Put 10 lbs Ice in fermenter pour in honey mix in to fermenter and add cold water to get to 5.5 Gal (this is to compensate for loss to lees)

Check temp at 100 F add spruce extract and yeast

Seal fermenter and fill airlock
Wait till the airlock stops bubbling (1-2 weeks apx) put in to a secondary fermenter aerating well and leaving lees. ferment till the airlock stops bubbling and bottle in campaign bottles

drink and bee happy :popcorn:

[nursebee]

The mulling spice might mellow with age so consider adding at each racking. I'd do it in a sewed up hop bag in a pail fermenter.

[TodesSchatten]

the spices have not mellowed (yet) :) but you need to be careful w/ cinnamon it can spicy hot if it steeps to long... unless that is what you want

mmmm spicy cinnamon mead... I think I'll make that next :D

[Ben Brewcat]

Or make a tincture with the spices and add exactly to taste.