First Mead

Mead - Day 3 1 year 38 weeks ago Mead two days after we started it. As the yeast eats the sugar from the honey, it produces alcohol and carbon dioxide. The bubbly head in the tank is the CO2 that has been created. That is some happy yeast!	Mead - Day 1 1 year 38 weeks ago This is how the mead looked after we finished mixing it. 5/7/10	Mead Making - Add Yeast 1 year 38 weeks ago The yeast was rehydrated in a 5 gallon bucket and then added to the must (pre-mead). When we made mead in 6 gallon batches, a 1 gram packet of yeast was right. With a 1000 L batch, a 500 gram package was used!
Mead Making - Airate 1 year 38 weeks ago Air needed to be incorporated into the must (pre-mead) for the yeast. Since stirring seemed out of the question, we hooked up the pump to circulate the must from the bottom of the tank and spray it back in the top.	Mead Making - Add Water 1 year 38 weeks ago Enough water went into the tank to bring the level up to 1000 L.	Mead Making - Add Honey 1 year 38 weeks ago Honey being poured into the tank. This 1000 L batch had 75 gallons of honey added to it! At 12 lbs per gallon of honey, that was 900 lbs of honey dragged up a ladder to be poured into the fermenter.

We have started our first batch. Here are pictures, just in case you didn't know what goes into brewing mead, or if you have never seen brewing done on a larger scale. Remember: honey + water + yeast = mead! (Pictures are in reverse order!)