Making Your Own Mead: 43 Recipes for Homemade Honey Wines (Fox Chapel Publishing) Basic Guide to Techniques, plus Recipes for Mead, Fruit Melomels, Grape Pyments, Spiced Metheglins, & Apple Cysers

I have brewed mead for a long time, and Im always in the look out for new ideas. I have made many variants of mead, from Cheesecake strawberry melomel, to white chocolate mead. So im always on the look out for new ideas. Anyway i did a search for mead and this was one of the books that appeared. Since it was under ten, i gave it a shot. The book is a small book, but the quality of the print is excellent. While it appears to be a small book, it is straight foward and is loaded with recipes. I really like that they decided to to make the recipes for a one gallon run. This makes it easy to adjust amount if you want to say make a five gallon batch or a six gallon batch etc. Other books are not stadarized, i have seen books where the recipe is for one gallon, the next one for 2.5, the next for five etc. Some books i have seen dont even tell you the yield. . It just complicates matters by not being consistent with the final yeild. The recipes in this book are for one gallon batches and its easy to figure out what adjustments you need make if you want to make a larger batch. This nice thing is that since it is for gallon batches it is easy to set up an experimental batch of a specific mead to see whether you will like it or not. For example there is a recipe for gooseberry mead. I did not want to do a five gallon batch and find out imwas not gonna like it, so i followed the one gallon recipe of this book and im glad, bc gooseberry mead is not to my liking. But the Ale mead was, so i later made a five gallon batch of it. The book ismto the point and simple, it tell you what you need to get started and has lots of recipes, it doesnt go off on tangents, or get scientifically technical. Small book but loaded.

Probably a great book but not for beginners. It was too complicated for me.

I'm completely new to making mead.With that being said, I actually put my first batches together before getting this book. I really wished I had gotten it sooner because its pretty helpful. There are some oddities about it though.Pros:1. The photography is well done2. The History is interesting3 Loads of different recipesCons:1. There are quotes from the book...in the book. This just seems to take of valuable space that could be used elsewhere.2. Some information is vague. I understand that the book was short as intended to be, but I would have loved more description in regards to some ingredients/chemicals and processes.All said and done, it is a good book. Anyone who is looking into mead making could do worse than not picking this up. it's quite helpful.

The first half of the book is on the history of making mead, and the second half is all the recipes. Great little book. Great variety of recipes.

This is a fantastic book, and one I would heartily recommend to anyone else who, like me, have no mead making experience.It has a brief history of mead, and some nice facts about it, then goes into the process simply and completely on how to make good mead.Towards the end of the book it gives you a good triple handful of wonderful sounding recipes that I cant wait to try and make.The book was able to take me... a regular guy who has 0 wine making experience and ive just finished putting my first batch to ferment in my carboy. An Orange Melomel…. it smelled WONDERFUL, I can not wait to taste it in a few months.

Super thin book, magazine length of approximately 60 pages. Not bad advice, but completely lacking in exact measurements for recommended recipes. Share the wealth of knowledge. That’s what I wanted.

My husband is loving the book as he makes his first batch of mead! It is full of great information and he has thoroughly enjoyed reading it. A great compliment to their Mead Making Kit! 😊

I have been brewing beer (off and on) since 1993 and recently started making mead. It's hard to say whether this book is suitable for a beginner but I believe it would be. I found most of the steps to making mead are very similar to brewing beer (racking, sanitizing, fermenting), so I skimmed through parts of it.I particularly enjoyed the color photos. The beautiful bottles of crystal clear mead inspired me to make something similar.There are a good number of different recipes at the end of the book. There are recipes for sweet, semi-sweet and dry meads, along with recipes that include fruit, fruit juices, spices, different honey varieties, etc.The book is written in a style that's easy to read. The author didn't leave anything out but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been longer.