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Here is the recipe that won me the Best of Brew at Lughnasadh 2004 - Celtic Crusher Metheglin!
The best mead this side of the Summerlands!
Ingredients
3 pounds dark, morose and moody honey
1/2 ounce acid blend
the rind of one small lemon
4 ounces of mixed herbs, put into a cheesecloth bag (use whatever you have, chamomile flowers work well for me but you could use fennel, rosemary, or anything that smells good. Go for scent first, flavor second.)
one handful of raisins
5 tablespoons of bee pollen
good water (don't use tap water unless you have absolutely no alternative) to add to the other ingredients so that it totals up to one gallon of liquid.
What to do>
1)In a primary fermenter, stir the honey into 6 pints of the good water.
2)Add the acid blend, lemon peel, bee pollen, raisins and the bag of herbs.
3)Sterilize with 2 Campden tablets or 1/3 teaspoon potassium metabisulphite.
4)Let it all stand for 24 hours.
5)Add yeast starter.
6)Stand clear!
7)After 4 days, remove the bag of herbs and any other stuff that might be floating around in there. Skim the top every day.
8)When the foam dies down, rack into the secondary fermenter.
9)When it finishes fermenting you can rack it into bottles and forget about it for at least a year. Then you will have your Celtic Crusher Metheglin, a real special sweet and heady treat!
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4,774 strti.
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