Ingredients
- 4 lbs honey (Tart Farms)
- 1 cup lavender leaves (remove from stems and chop lightly)
- 1/2 tsp tannin powder
- Côte Des Blancs dry yeast
- 0.5 gram Wyeast yeast nutrient
Instructions
- Heat 3/4 gal water to 150°F and blend in honey
- Treat 1/4 cup water with 1 campden tablet and pour into jug with lavender
- Pour hot honey mixture over lavender leaves
- Stand overnight
- Rehydrate yeast in 1 cups water; add 1 cup must after 15 minutes and let stand for 20 minutes
- Pitch yeast slurry
- Ferment for 7 days, rack, top up off while allowing some head space
After primary is completed, rack again, add 2oz of rose water, top off to the jug neck, and age for 60 days. Stabilize, wait, bottle.
Original Recipe
Recipe from http://hbd.org/brewery/library/beeslees.html#Chap2
Lavender Mead Source: Leigh Ann Hussey (leighann@sybase.com) Mead Lover's Digest #5, 1 October 1992 Ingredients (1 gallon): 4lb honey 1/4t citric acid 1 pint lavender flowers 1/2t tannin powder 1/2t champagne yeast 1t yeast nutrient Procedure: Boil together honey and 1/2gal water for 5 min. Put flowers with citric acid and tannin in a gallon jug and pour the hot liquid over. Let cool in a sink of cold water to room temperature, then add yeast and nutrient and further water to make a gallon plus a pint. Add the airlock. Let ferment 1 week, then strain out flowers. Set the lock on again and ferment until all quiet. Bottle and age. Second Ferment: 112 days Based on H.E. Bravery's Rose Mead, from HOME BREWING WITHOUT FAILURES.
