Walmart JAOM Mead - It's easy!

Here's a great, simple mead recipe for anyone who's interested in making their own mead, but not sure if they really want to dive into it big-time and spend a lot of time and money trying it.

Hard-core mead makers, please don't bash me here. This is for the first time mead maker. Those interested in more sophisticated meads will find the proper way to make them.

Here's the cost break down and ingredient list:
1 Gallon Water: $0.88
3 lbs. Honey: $7.49 (5 lbs. was $12.48)
1 large orange: $0.88
Whole Cloves: $0.10 (there are hundreds of cloves in one jar - you only need two. One jar was $3.97 so I estimated)
Cinnamon Sticks: $0.40 (there were 10 sticks in this jar - you only need one stick. One jar was 3.97)
Raisins: $0.25 (like the cloves, you only use about 25 raisins per gallon, so many gallons can be made from one box. A 12 oz. box was $2.48, so I estimated)

Bottom line: $10 per gallon

For about $10 you can make a GALLON of delicious mead. Run of the mill stuff is $20 per QUART at every liquor store I've been to. Make your own, which will be better than the store bought stuff, be more self reliant and save yourself some money.

And most of all, have fun doing it!

[StoneyardVineyards]

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[johnpadmore]

Excellent tutorial, well done. Sounds yummy.

[abide-]

Great video tutorial! Thanks for posting this, man!

[bc]

It's not just that "some people use the whole orange, " or whatever this guy said, there is a very specific reason that this particular recipe (Joe's Ancient Orange) calls for the whole orange, including the pith. Anybody wanting to do this, ditch the distilled water and Google up Joe's actual recipe and instructions. JAOM violates many "mead rules" and it works best if not deviated from.

[MaaZeus]

Dude, just take a small needle and poke a hole or two into the balloon. When the balloon expands the small hole lets out the CO2 gas. No need to baby sit it unless you really want just to smell how good JAOM smells while its fermenting. :) No need to fear nasties either since the pressure of CO2 coming out from the hole keeps away unwelcome visitors and when fermentation slows down and the balloon collapses and closes the hole. And even if a bug does somehow get in the mead after primary fermentation it is already so full of alcohol that it is unlikely to do anything serious.

[michaeldmckenzie]

I haven't finished watching the video and maybe you will cover it but I wanted to ask a question: How do you decide when to rack off the primary fermenter? My first batch, started on 3/19/18 has slowed to a couple bubbles a minute.. Should I rack?

[Osama-xscl]

Do you recommend using coffee filter to distilling the liquid after its done