# Mead Recipes (meadrecipes.com)

> Tested mead recipes from White Shed Meadery, a licensed meadery in Chehalis, Washington. Each recipe is for a 1-gallon batch and lists original gravity, final gravity, ABV, yeast strain, and a staggered nutrient schedule.

All recipes are free to read and cite. Please link to the recipe URL when you use one.

- Full text of every recipe: https://meadrecipes.com/llms-full.txt
- Mead styles and brewing terms: https://meadrecipes.com/styles/

## Recipes

- [Traditional Wildflower Mead](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/traditional-wildflower/): Traditional, semi-sweet, 12.2% ABV. Honey, water, yeast, and patience. The recipe every mead maker should brew first, because there is nowhere for flaws to hide.
- [Pacific Northwest Blackberry Melomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/blackberry-melomel/): Melomel, semi-sweet, 11.3% ABV. Fruit mead built on the blackberries that take over every fence line west of the Cascades. Deep purple, jammy, and bright.
- [Orchard Cyser](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/orchard-cyser/): Cyser, semi-dry, 13.7% ABV. Apple cider takes the place of water. Somewhere between a strong cider and a mead, and a good use for fall pressings.
- [Winter Spice Metheglin](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/winter-metheglin/): Metheglin, sweet, 11.8% ABV. A spiced mead for cold evenings: cinnamon, vanilla, and a whisper of clove over orange blossom honey.
- [Caramelized Bochet](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/bochet/): Bochet, sweet, 10.8% ABV. Honey cooked until it darkens, then fermented. Toffee, toasted marshmallow, and dried fruit. A medieval style worth reviving.
- [Sparkling Session Hydromel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/session-hydromel/): Hydromel, dry, 5.9% ABV. A light, sparkling mead around 6% ABV. Ready in weeks instead of months, and easy to drink on a summer afternoon.
- [Spiced Orange Starter Mead](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/spiced-orange-starter/): Metheglin, sweet, 12.5% ABV. The classic first mead: a whole orange, a handful of raisins, warm spices, and plain bread yeast. Forgiving, sweet, and ready in about two months.
- [Raspberry Melomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/raspberry-melomel/): Melomel, semi-sweet, 11.6% ABV. Bright, pink, and aromatic. Raspberry stays fresh-tasting in mead better than almost any other fruit.
- [Tart Cherry Melomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/tart-cherry-melomel/): Melomel, semi-sweet, 11.8% ABV. Montmorency cherries give a deep red mead with real acidity and an almond-like finish from the pits.
- [Concord Grape Pyment](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/concord-pyment/): Pyment, semi-sweet, 13.4% ABV. Half wine, half mead. Grape juice replaces the water, and the honey rounds out the grape's foxy edge.
- [Pale Braggot](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/pale-braggot/): Braggot, semi-dry, 9.6% ABV. Mead meets beer: malt extract and a touch of hops under the honey. Bready, floral, and drinkable young.
- [Maple Acerglyn](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/maple-acerglyn/): Acerglyn, semi-sweet, 12.2% ABV. Honey and maple syrup together. Caramel, vanilla, and woodsmoke notes that get better every month in the bottle.
- [Jalapeño Lime Capsicumel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/jalapeno-lime-capsicumel/): Capsicumel, semi-dry, 11.2% ABV. A chile mead with green heat and lime zest. Great with food and surprising in a cocktail.
- [Rose Petal Rhodomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/rose-petal-rhodomel/): Rhodomel, semi-sweet, 11.6% ABV. A floral mead with dried rose petals. Delicate and perfumed, the kind of mead that converts wine drinkers.
- [Ginger Lemon Metheglin](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/ginger-lemon-metheglin/): Metheglin, semi-dry, 11.3% ABV. Fresh ginger and lemon zest over a light honey base. Crisp, warming, and excellent sparkling.
- [Cold Brew Coffee Mead](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/cold-brew-coffee-mead/): Metheglin, sweet, 11.4% ABV. Honey and cold-brewed coffee: chocolate, roast, and sweetness without harsh bitterness. A dessert mead.
- [Dessert Sack Mead](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/sack-mead/): Traditional, sweet, 14.4% ABV. A strong, sweet traditional meant for sipping. Big honey character and a long finish, like a dessert wine.
- [Blueberry Melomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/blueberry-melomel/): Melomel, semi-sweet, 11.8% ABV. Deep purple and gently tannic, with a jammy blueberry nose. Wild blueberries give the most flavor.
- [Summer Peach Melomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/peach-melomel/): Melomel, semi-sweet, 10.9% ABV. Ripe peaches and orange blossom honey. Soft, round, and best brewed at the height of peach season.
- [Strawberry Rhubarb Melomel](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/strawberry-rhubarb-melomel/): Melomel, semi-sweet, 10.6% ABV. The pie-filling pairing as a mead. Strawberry for sweetness and aroma, rhubarb for a tart, bright backbone.
- [Vanilla Oak Mead](https://meadrecipes.com/recipes/vanilla-oak-mead/): Metheglin, semi-sweet, 12.5% ABV. A traditional mead aged on toasted oak and vanilla bean. Barrel character without the barrel.