Cranberry Orange Mead! A super easy, delicious cranberry orange mead from store bought juice? That’s right. Let’s make this really easy honey wine using cranberry juice instead of whole fruit.
Ingredients
2 lbs (.907 kg) Orange Blossom Honey: bevyshoneybees@gmail.com
96 oz Cranberry Juice
2 g Fermaid O: https://amzn.to/3UjMqKr
1 Pack Cote Des Blancs Wine Yeast: https://amzn.to/3RcVnBM
1 Orange worth of zest
1/2 teaspoon Wine Tannin: https://amzn.to/3HfnP1w
1/2 teaspoon Pectic Enzyme: https://amzn.to/3JlVb1c
20 oz Water
Additions
1/2 teaspoon Yeast Hulls if your brew stalls: https://amzn.to/3Y2dv3F
Back sweeten with Honey to Gravity reading of 1.032 (or to your personal tastes)
Tools We Use
Little Big Mouth Bubbler: https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/little-big-mouth-bubbler
Scale: https://amzn.to/3JmJPdB
Star San: https://amzn.to/3Dm1gaa
Brewer’s Elite Hydrometer Set: https://amzn.to/407VCSN
Baster: https://amzn.to/3Y6iLmY
WUSS: https://amzn.to/3WNoSLP
Zester: https://amzn.to/3XZEMDM
Our Favorite Pitcher: https://amzn.to/408fyVN
1 Gallon Carboy with Airlock: https://amzn.to/3JmRs3u
Auto Siphon: https://amzn.to/3H8CRpy
Belgian Tasting Glass: https://amzn.to/40dfi7O
Glencairn Glasses: https://amzn.to/407VSBf
Bottling Wand: https://amzn.to/408eUrk
Fun T-shirts: https://city-steading.com/product-category/t-shirts/
Glencairn Glasses: https://amzn.to/4aXJ6tB
After aging for one year, how did it taste?
Aging a mead or wine can sometimes, okay, often, make it considerably better, but not always! We like to taste when young, then wait a year and taste them again. Makes for an interesting mead and wine experience, and shows how things change over time. Just remember, taste is so biased. Our palates change, and grow over time, so what we may have loved a year ago might be meh, today, and vice versa! Use our scores as a guideline, like the Pirate’s Code, rather than a rule.
