Cover bucket with sanitized lid, allow to cool to room temperature. Strain mixture into a sanitized bucket, removing herbs, spices, and fruit. Bring mixture back up to a simmer and keep it there just simmering, not boiling for about 45 minutes. Add honey, stir until dissolved.Īdd ginger, vanilla beans (scraping seeds into the mixture before adding the pods), peels, juice, rosemary, and spices. Peels and juice from about 12 Cuties orangesġ packet White Labs WLP 720 Sweet Mead yeast If you havent read our primer to home brewing, it starts here, with parts 2 and 3 here and here.Ģ vanilla beans, sliced in half lengthwise Our first 5 gallon batch was almost all gone LONG before the next Cuties season had started! Age it if you like we havent been able to keep any long enough to see how it ages. Anyway, I think their season end is coming up, so stock up! This start out incredibly fragrant almost like a delicious, fruity tea but dont drink much of it before fermenting! The finished product is even better!Īnother nice thing about this wine is that it is very good when fairly young, compared to many meads At only 6 months old, this tasted amazing.
Love them I can snarf a crate by myself, in a sitting, if left to my own devices. If youre going to make a batch of this, act fast we used peels from ∼uties oranges, which are only in season for a few months each year. Definitely one of our top 3 favorite homemade wine recipes! This is the first mead that we ever made, and it turned out so amazing everything else has pretty much paled in comparison. Just going to cut and paste the recipe from the blog entry I just wrote about it!
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