How Good Mead is Brewed Lore Books

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How Good Mead is Brewed in home conditions

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How Good Mead is Brewed
even in home conditions

You will need 2 masses of honey,
4 of water, a quarter mass of hops,
a handful of sage and a handful of bread yeast

Heat the clean water such that you can put your hand in it without scalding it. Then mix well two masses of water and one of honey and strain the mixture through clean linen into a clean vessel. Boil it all for the time it takes you to cross a field thrice, and meanwhile remove the foam from the top with a perforated spoon or bowl. When it is boiled and without foam, pour it into a clean cask and cover it so no steam escapes, and let it cool until such time as you may stick your hand in it without pain. Then take a pot of half a mass in size and fill it up halfway with hops, add a handful of sage and boil it all together for as long as it would take you to walk one mile. Then add the fermented yeast and mix it in to start the fermentation and cover it such that the vapours may escape. Leave it thus one day and night.

Then strain the mead through a clean cloth and let it ferment again for three days and nights, adding more fermented yeast each evening. Let it rest for eight days, and afterwards pour it into resin-coated cask, then leave it for another eight weeks to stand and only afterwards drink it, for it is done and mead tastes best after eight weeks!