We are now proudly offering homebrew mead kits!
We have five-gallon kits for craft mead and a special one for strong meads, plus a one gallon kit for folks with limited space. You even have the option to add an ingredient kit!
As part of our Open Source mission, we decided it was time to up our game. Not only are all of our recipes free online, but we now offer everything you need to make the mead at home.
To learn more about how we developed our kit, read below. Or, you can simply go buy one now!
What's in the mead kit?
Every kit has:
- Fermentation Bucket with Spigot for Transferring or Bottling
- Grommeted Lid with Airlock
- Bottle Filler with Tubing
- Hydrometer for Gravity Readings
- PBW for Cleaning and Iodophor for Sanitizing Equipment
The Strong Mead Kit also has:
- Corker
- 5 Gallon PET Carboy for Extended Aging
- Rubber Stopper for Carboy
- Autosiphon for Transferring Mead
Since honey wines and strong meads need an extended aging period, this latter kit has a carboy which limits the risk of oxidizing your mead. Plus, it allows you to have two batches going at the same time!
Can this kit be used for things other than mead?
Absolutely! We've made cider, wine, and even sake with our kit!
If you want to make beer, you'll also need a brew kettle and some other equipment like that, but you'll have most of what you need!
This is, in fact, the exact same setup we suggest for hard cider.
What else will I need if I get really into making mead?
One of the best things about making mead is that all you need to scale it up is more buckets!
With beer brewing you often need a bigger pot, a larger mash tun, a bigger heat source, a cooling coil, and the list goes on and on. If you like gadgets and you have deep pockets, beer brewing is a fine hobby, but for mead and cider, scaling is as easy as finding space for more brewing buckets!
