The Complete Guide to Making Mead, Updated Edition (eBook)

The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine

Steve Piatz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | 2., Second Edition, New Edition with new cover & price
176 Seiten
Harvard Common Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-9619-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Make delicious meads in many varieties and flavor profiles with this completely updated edition of the definitive companion book for home mead-making.Some stories suggest that mead was originally discovered when one of our not-yet-upright forebears stuck their hand in a fermenting bee hive and came away with a honeycomb containing a little more than they bargained for. Whatever the truth, brewers have brought this beverage into the twenty-first century, and you can rest assured that The Complete Guide to Making Mead is a thoroughly up-to-date, modern, and authoritative guide to homemade mead. Best of all, it has something for everyone, from the stone-cold beginner to the seasoned veteran. Written by award-winning mead-maker Steve Piatz, the book features:A brief history of the fermented beverage and arundown of the various types of meadDozens of recipes for basic meads (honey only), melomels (honey and fruit), metheglins (honey and spices), and braggots (honey and malt)A discussion of the many types of honey that are available, their characteristics, and where to source themInformation on yeast and special ingredients, as well as what equipment is necessary and recommendedAn illustrated and detailed look at the basic processAdvanced techniques, such as oaking, clarifying, aging, spicing, and blendingGuidance on developing recipes and troubleshooting problems with the brewing processMore than 100 color photosMake your own mead, and make a toast to this ancient alcoholic drink, with this comprehensive guide.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2025
• Zusatzinfo: color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Schlagworte: Advanced Techniques • Ancient • artisan brewing • beer-making • Beginner's Guide • blending • Book • bottling aging • braggots • Brewing • Brewing Equipment • brewing methods • brewing tips • clarifying • color photos • complete • craft honey wine • crafting • DIY mead • dry mead • Father's Day • Fermentation • fermenting • flavor experimentation • flavor profiles • for beginners • Gift • History • Homebrew • Home Brew • homebrew secrets • homemade • honey • honey wine • how to • how to brew mead • Illustrated • ingredients • MALT • mead fermentation • mead history • Mead Making • mead recipes • mead starter kits • mead varieties • melomels • metheglins • modern mead • oaking • oldest alcoholic beverage • present • Process • Recipes • Reference • spices • sweet mead • traditional recipes • winemaking • yeast selection
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-9619-1 / 0760396191
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-9619-3 / 9780760396193