The Compleat Meadmaker Home Production of Honey Wine From Your First Batch to Award-winning Fruit and Herb Variations

by Schramm, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780937381809
• ISBN10: 0937381802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-09
• Publisher: Brewers Publications

Summary

Mead (honey wine) is the new buzz among beverage hobbyists as more and more consumers start to make their own. This up- to-date title tells the novice how to begin and the experienced brewer or winemaker how to succeed in this newest of the beverage arts.

Author Biography

Ken Schramm is a mead maker, musician, fruit grower, baker, brewer, hunter, angler, fly tyer and lover of all things gustatory. He is the author of The Compleat Meadmaker (Brewers Publications, 2003), and has been involved in beverage hobbies since 1988. He has served on the AHA Board of Advisers, and is one of the founders of the Mazer Cup Mead Competition, North America's oldest mead-only competition. Ken opened Schramm's Meadery in Ferndale, MI in 2013. Ken lives in Troy, Michigan with his wife, Jean.

Table of Contents

Dedication	v
Acknowledgements	vii
Foreword	ix
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1. From the Beginning to a Modern Revival	3	(16)
2. Defining the Styles	19	(4)
PART TWO: PROCESS
3. Changing Honey into Wine	23	(16)
4. Beyond the Basics	39	(12)
5. Yeast and Fermentation	51	(20)
6. Conditioning, Aging, and Using Oak	71	(8)
PART THREE: INGREDIENTS
7. All About Hones	79	(22)
8. Fruit and Melomel	101	(20)
9. Grapes and Pyment	121	(8)
10. Spices and Metbeglin	129	(22)
11. Grains and Braggot	151	(10)
PART FOUR: RECIPES
12. Putting the Process and Ingredients Together	161	(18)
13. Appreciating Your Mead	179
Appendix 1: Honey and Other Suppliers	177	(14)
Appendix 2: Conversion Charts	191	(2)
Glossary	193	(108)
Bibliography	301	(4)
Index	305