Last week , took off and extracted 3 gallon of early honey from one hive. Really pleased. Going to have go at making some traditional mead from the cappings.
bees honey & mead
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Mead works well as does metheglin and melomel. I made a batch of strawberry melomel from our surplus strawberries last year and some of the Autumn flow - very good it is too. I find a sack mead base is the best.
I heartily reccomend "Wild Wines and Meads" for the recipes
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There are some tutorials on the site of mine if its your first try!
I heartily reccomend "Wild Wines and Meads" for the recipes
Labels by British Red, on FlickrThere are some tutorials on the site of mine if its your first try!
This will be my first attempt at mead, I'm still looking around a bit to find a good method .
You have some nice looking bottles in your picture. I will take a look at your suggestions.
You have some nice looking bottles in your picture. I will take a look at your suggestions.
Great stuff! Our hives are really coming along, I fancy a crack at mead when we harvest some honey, we recently split ours so it may be a while but they're truly workers and it's incredible what they archive in a short space of time, and more to the pint Reds mead looks lush! 
It's been a really good for the bees this year the weather has been good and spring was very early this year with plenty of forage here in Norfolk. Helped also by the oilseed rape crops in my area.
Hopefully I can continue to prevent them swarming and there will be another harvest later in the year.
Hopefully I can continue to prevent them swarming and there will be another harvest later in the year.
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The basic recipe I use and the method is shown in this thread Harnser if it helps
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112179
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http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112179
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Well the mead is in demijohns and is happily fermenting and bubbling through the airlocks
Now I guess we wait for the first racking off.
Now I guess we wait for the first racking off.
Yep - this time next year you may be able to taste some. Don't rush it - it does secondary ferment and takes a while.
I don't mind waiting its all part of the fun, its cleared quite a bit now. it always amazes me how much stuff settles to the bottom.
