Hoplander
Well-Known Member
I bought a Metheglin (fruit and spice Mead) recipe kit from my LHBS. It's an Orange Lemon Ginger Mead recipe that calls for 8 lemons 2 oranges and 1 ginger root and 4 bags of Earl Grey Tea.
The directions don't mention when to add these things. Being a beer brewer, putting them all in the boil/steep sounds just wrong. I would imagine you'd get a lot of bitterness from all of that.
It also doesn't tell me at what temperature I should be adding the 15lbs of Honey and 5 lbs of sugar. The only temperatures indicated are 160 F and a range of 150-180 F.
My intuition tells me to add tea/ginger at the last few minutes of boil and to add fruit to primary and/or secondary, but I've never done this before. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The directions don't mention when to add these things. Being a beer brewer, putting them all in the boil/steep sounds just wrong. I would imagine you'd get a lot of bitterness from all of that.
It also doesn't tell me at what temperature I should be adding the 15lbs of Honey and 5 lbs of sugar. The only temperatures indicated are 160 F and a range of 150-180 F.
My intuition tells me to add tea/ginger at the last few minutes of boil and to add fruit to primary and/or secondary, but I've never done this before. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.