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gotmead.com is a great reference for mead recipes (you have to pay to get all of them but you can still see some if not a member), and Charlie P's book Complete Joy of Homebrewing has an appendix on mead as well. Good luck!

I don't have my recipe book on hand, but this is my general apple pie mead (it varies batch to batch. Unlike my other meads, I only do one gallon batches (I only drink it on Thanksgiving) Go to Earthfare (or whatever whole foods store is in your area) and buy two 1-gallon glass jugs of apple...

I agree with the three gallons. I started off with a general timeline when I first started. I added fruit to primary not secondary, so I would rack off after two weeks, let it sit for another month, and then rack off again and let it sit there until I was ready to bottle (around 8 months). But...

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Gotmead.com is where I started when I first started meadmaking. Since then, I have purchased the Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm which I highly recommend (between 10 and 15 bucks on Amazon. Also, check out this BrewingTV episode with Curt Stock...

I have a sweet to medium show mead that is about nine months old. I would like to through it on tart cherries and oak (maybe a vanilla bean?) for a week or so when I travel back to the states in two weeks. I'm getting some dried tart cherries because fresh ones won't be available in that area...