Blood Orange and cranberry Ancient Mead

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

I've been going through the HBT recipe database and I found this recipe: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49106

What is nice about it is that it is a dead simple mead that doesn't have any funny nutrient additions. Also it uses bread yeast hence the name Ancient Mead.

When I was in Fruit and Veg I found 2kg of Honey on special and decided to make this recipe.

Had blood oranges in the kitchen and couldn't find a small packet of raisins so I opted for cranberries.

Washed and sanitized the orange and the cranberries, warmed up the honey so it is runny and added that in a 5L water container, added the orange and cranberries and filled the container with water up to the 4.5L mark. Added the bread yeast and is now slowly bubbling away.

I'll post pictures tonight

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Nice One

[Thandi Guilherme Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thandi Guilherme]

Wow that sounds amazing - please keep us updated!

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

Some pictures:

Cranberry floaters looking very suspicious
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Another view of the floaters
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Had to build an ant trap to keep the buggers out
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[defender110 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close defender110]

Any idea what the abv will be ?

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

Any idea what the abv will be ?

Beersmith give me an OG of 1.124 I have no idea what the attenuation will be. I'll measure it in about 4 months...

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

26 days and it is still going strong. A bubble every 10 seconds or so.
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Nice colour
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[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

More than a month and still bubbling strong. Starting to think I have broken the laws of physics and have developed a perpetual CO2 farting concoction

[Guest Close AtronSeige]

Starting to think I have broken the laws of physics and have developed a perpetual CO2 farting concoction

Strap a fan and a dynamo to it and load-shedding will never be a problem again!

[StevenD (Slainthe) Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close StevenD (Slainthe)]

Always wanted to try a mead. This looks like the one.

As one of the posters on that thread asked, Do you bottle carbonate the mead when it is done?

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

You could bottle carbonate, I'm not going to, haven't drunk a mead that was carbonated. Just bottle in 270mL kriek bottles with a tiny bit of sugar to have some CO2 on the mead

[DieBaas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieBaas]

Still fermenting, but a lot slower maybe 1 bubble every 2 minutes.

[Wessel Pieterse Member Find all posts View Profile Close Wessel Pieterse]

Blood Orange and cranberry Ancient Mead

How did this come out ?

Looking to make a variation of it in the next couple of weeks. Thinking about doing something similar to this:

1.60 kg Honey (2.0 EBC)
1 pkgs Sweet Mead/Wine (White Labs #WLP720) Yeast
1.50 Cinnamon Stick
1.00 tspYeast Nutrient
1.50 Orange
1.50 Clove

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[CraftyZA Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CraftyZA]

Where do you buy blood oranges? I love the stuff, but can never find it!


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[Wessel Pieterse Member Find all posts View Profile Close Wessel Pieterse]

Finally got round to making this. Used champagne yeast so hope it does not come out to dry.

Also used orange rind an just the juice from the oranges.

Added a bit of yeast nutrient.



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