Mead Making
Mead is a wine made from honey and is possibly mankind's original fermented beverage. Making mead requires quality honey, yeast, and additional fermentation nutrients for the right fermentation. Traditional meads can be dry, semi-sweet, or sack sweet depending on your preference. But don't stop there. Homemade mead can be made with the addition of apples (cyser), Fruit (melomel or berry mead), wine grapes (pyment), spices (metheglin), or even malted barley (braggot).
Interested in learning how to make mead at home? Our homebrew mead making kits yield three or five gallons and can be brewed using supplies from a beer or wine making equipment starter kit. Of course, we also carry all of the mead making supplies you'll need, from fermenters to yeast nutrients.
For melomels with fruit, we recommend an extra-large primary fermentor of 7 to 8 gallons.
Be sure to take a look at our NB Artisanal Mead Kits, made with Ames Farm's amazing honey — these are simple and traditional mead recipes designed to let the honey shine through. Because the floral sources and composition of Ames Farm honey will change with the season and years, and are dependent on variables like hive placement and weather, every batch of these kits will be unique.
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Ames Farm Artisanal Minnesota Honey
A Northern Brewer exclusive! Ames Farm of Watertown, MN produces nationally-recognized artisanal honey with old-world apiary techniques. Ames Farm ...
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Light amber in color and is very sweet and robust. This wildflower is produced by placing hives in prairies and grasslands where bees have access ...
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Clover honey is light in color with a floral flavor and a pleasant mild taste. This honey is unpasteurized, heated to less than 132° F, and straine...
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This aromatic honey makes a fantastic mead! Our current batch of orange blossom honey is mild, with citrus-orange notes. This honey is unpasteurize...
View full detailsLight-Amber Honey Blend
Excellent value, light-amber color, neutral flavor make this a good base for sweet, fruit, and spiced meads. We offer this honey for its excellent...
View full detailsBuckwheat Honey 1 Lb
Buckwheat Honey - 1LB Buckwheat grows best in cool, moist climates. It blooms early and it yields dark brown honey with a strong, distinct flavor.
Curt & Kathy Sweet Mead Making Kit
A pure, unadulterated sweet mead from your choice of a single honey variety. Honey varieties can taste incredibly different from one another. The b...
View full detailsCherry Bomb! Hydromel
Take a refreshing mead, infuse it with the power of an M-80 filled with ripe Bing, Lambert and Royal Anne cherries and watch the sparks fly. Clover...
View full detailsCurt & Kathy Raspberry Melomel Mead Making Kit
Raspberries are one of the most popular additions to mead, and after tasting the results of this kit it easy to understand why. Starting with sweet...
View full detailsCurt & Kathy's Blackberry Melomel Mead Making Kit
This mead making kit features elements of a sweet late-harvest red wine or ruby port mixed in with the floral high notes of wildflower honey. Anoth...
View full detailsNB Artisanal Standard Semi-Sweet Mead Making Kit
With a more pronounced aroma and greater mouthfeel than dry mead but with lower residual sugar than a true sweet mead, medium or semi-sweet mead ha...
View full detailsNB Artisanal Sack Sweet Mead Making Kit
A very strong beverage, sack is the mead equivalent of a late-harvest icewine or a barley wine. A viscous and intense sipping experience. Includes ...
View full detailsNB Artisanal Standard Dry Mead Making Kit
Fermented to completion, dry mead is delicate and more subtle than medium or sack mead. Becomes champagne-like if you carbonate it. Excellent as an...
View full detailsYeast Energizer
Yeast energizer is a blend of diammonium phosphate, yeast hulls, magnesium sulphate, and vitamin B complex. Used to stimulate or restart a fermenta...
View full detailsFermaid K Yeast Nutrient
Fermaid K is a blended complex yeast nutrient that supplies ammonia salts (DAP), free amino acids (organic nitrogen derived from inactivated yeast)...
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Go-Ferm is certified organic by OMRI. It is a natural yeast rehydration nutrient containing a balance of micronutrients. Suspend Go-Ferm in the reh...
View full detailsFermaid O Yeast Nutrient
Fermaid O is an Organic version of Fermaid K. It is an autolyzed yeast nutrient with a high content of organic nitrogen (amino acids). It is formu...
View full detailsYeast Nutrient
Yeast Nutrient is a mixture of diammonium phosphate and food-grade urea that nourishes yeast, ensuring that it remains healthy throughout fermentat...
View full detailsPropper Seltzer™ Yeast Nutrient - Gluten Free
One dose of Omega Yeast's specially formulated gluten-free Propper Seltzer™ nutrient powers your favorite beer yeast through a healthy sugar-based ...
View full detailsLalvin EC-1118 Prise de Mousse Wine Yeast
Lalvin EC 1118 (AKA Prise de Mousse / Saccharomyces bayanus) Champagne yeast is a low foaming, vigorous and fast fermenter good for both reds and w...
View full detailsLalvin D-47 White Wine Yeast
D-47 is a vigorous white wine yeast that will leave a wine very full bodied with enhanced mouthfeel. Accentuates varietal character and contributes...
View full detailsWyeast 4184 Sweet Mead
Wyeast 4184 Sweet Mead yeast is one of two strains for sweet mead making. Leaves 2-3% residual sugar in most meads. Rich, fruity profile complement...
View full detailsLalvin 71B White Wine Yeast
A rapid starting and constant fermenting semi-dry white wine yeast that will enhance fruit flavors and add fruity esters, ideal for fermenting with...
View full detailsLalvin ICV QA23 White Wine Yeast
Lalvin QA23 White Wine Yeast is the recommended strain for production of fresh, fruity, clean white wines like Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin ...
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