Blackcurrant Mead

🥘 Ingredients

• blackcurrant juice
  3 l
• honey
  6 kg
• pectolase
  5 tsp
• sweetner
• water
  10 l
• yeast
• yeast nutrients
  3 caps

🍳 Cookware

• fermenter
• hydrometer

1. 1

   You'll want a good source of honey for meadmaking but you don't need an expensive one. As long as it's real honey, it tastes good and you can buy it in bulk you should be fine.
2. 2

   Sterilise your fermenter and add boiling water . Add honey and keep stiring till it's all dissolved (This also helps areate the ferment which helps the yeast).

   water: 10 l, honey: 6 kg
3. 3

   Add blackcurrant juice and enough water to bring up to the 20L mark. Mix and take a hydrometer reading and leave to cool.

   blackcurrant juice: 3 l
4. 4

   Once the must is below 30C add pectolase , yeast nutrients and yeast to the fermenter. Add a peice of clean copper to the fermenter to prevent sulpher compounds.

   pectolase: 5 tsp, yeast nutrients: 3 caps, yeast
5. 5

   Once fermentation has finished and sediment has fallen out, syphon off the sediment into a keg. Add sweetner to taste then add enough white sugar to carbonate the keg.

   sweetner