Chewy's Mead Making Journey

Chewy's Mead Making Journey Just a page to chronicle my journey into mead making. The mead is not for sale as I am not licensed.

The cheap honey batch is looking beautiful and clear! Its finished off at 11.7% now but needs ageing for possibly a mont...
07/06/2026

The cheap honey batch is looking beautiful and clear! Its finished off at 11.7% now but needs ageing for possibly a month or so

Been on a rescue today. My first attempt had stalled at around 10.4% when it had the potential of around 16%, so I've ex...
06/06/2026

Been on a rescue today. My first attempt had stalled at around 10.4% when it had the potential of around 16%, so I've executed a rescue plan.

Made up 200ml water with a tbsp of honey, sprinkled yeast, left for 15 mins, gave a good swirl then left for 30. Added 5ml of the must, swirled and left for 15, added 10ml must, swirl, left and repeated until it was around 50-50 (5 1/4 hours later) then add it back to the demijohn, airlock and leave. Hopefully ill see some airlock activity within the next 2 days to see if this has worked. On the plus side, as i added extra water, it meant that I had to leave some mead out to make room. Guess who's having a little tipple? 🤣🤣 Tastes decent enough for now, but needs to finish and ageing

31/05/2026

Hilltop honey mead has finished fermenting now, sitting at around 11.3%

Racked it off into a new demijohn and added a Campden tablets and some potassium sorbate to stabilise so I can back sweeten if I feel its needed as its very, very dry. Gonna let it sit for a month to age then will bottle it.

The black hives matter honey mead is still going...slowly. currently sitting at around 10.4% but is tasting good so probably wont need to age for too long. Thinking it'll be ready by the end of July 🤞

Checked on my latest batch this morning properly. Theres been no airlock activity for a few days and its looking pretty ...
23/05/2026

Checked on my latest batch this morning properly. Theres been no airlock activity for a few days and its looking pretty much done. Going to check the gravity tomorrow as im off out now. Will put it back for a week and check again. If its not changed ill rack it off.

Second brew officially on the go! Actually using nutrients this time in the form of Fermaid-O. Hopefully this one will b...
04/05/2026

Second brew officially on the go! Actually using nutrients this time in the form of Fermaid-O. Hopefully this one will be done quicker as it should finish around 10%

Think i might do another one using store bought honey after this one to make sure I get it right, then will go back to using proper local honey again

So its been about 30 days since I started this bad boy, and its about half way through. Reading at about 8.4% and not ta...
03/05/2026

So its been about 30 days since I started this bad boy, and its about half way through. Reading at about 8.4% and not tasting too harsh. Will check on it again in a couple of weeks

18/04/2026

Ok, so its been a couple of weeks since I started and I have realised I have made a bit of a c**k up. I didn't put any yeast nutrients in when I started so the yeast is going to struggle a bit but will still work, just be a bit harsh. Just means that I will have to age it longer for the harshness to hopefully mellow out.

I have bought some hillside honey for my next batch, rather than possibly waste good quality honey whilst I learn what im doing properly

Not mine, but picked this up today and got some really good advice from Mountain Mead - Medd Mynydd
12/04/2026

Not mine, but picked this up today and got some really good advice from Mountain Mead - Medd Mynydd

Forgot to post this one yesterday, but its all mixed up and doing. Checked it this morning and Fermentation has started!...
04/04/2026

Forgot to post this one yesterday, but its all mixed up and doing. Checked it this morning and Fermentation has started! Happily bubbling away to itself under the stairs

Its finally brew day!
03/04/2026

Its finally brew day!

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