I recently sampled some Lindisfarne Mead which I bought from a tourist shop in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (yeah, that’s how you spell it!).  It was extremely nice but unfortunately the cost would prevent me from buying more

Quite a few years ago I use to make my own wine and I still have a lot of the equipment – so I decided to see how difficult mead making could be.  I found a great website which suggests it’s not only just as easy as other types of wine but very economical to make.

My first step will be to buy the necessary ingredients:

• 3kgs of honey
• Wine yeast
• Lemon peel

For my first batch I will use bottled water, rather than tap water, to avoid chlorine and flouride, but when I next go to Glastonbury I’m going to collect some water from White Springs.

My next post will document the first steps to mead making.