Mini Mead Making Kit

The Almost Off Grid Mini Mead Making Kit is for you if you have a traditional glass demijohn and you fancy making Mead. We supply other kits including a PET demijohn or a food grade bucket, but this kit is for when you have a demijohn already.

The Mini Mead Making Kit includes:

• 1 traditional cork bung, prebored with a hole, designed to fit in the neck of a standard 1 gallon (4.5 litre) glass demijohn
• 1 bubbler airlock with loose fitting cap to keep dust out, the neck of which fits exactly into the bored hole of the bung to create a seal
• 1 stick-on thermometer
• 1 pack of top quality Almost Off Grid Mead Yeast 
• 6 reusable corks with white rubber tops which will fit in the neck of recycled standard bottles previously fitted with corks (not screw caps)
• 1 kraft tag. We use these for recording each step and date when we make our mead, then keep it tied to the demijohn neck
• A glass hydrometer transported in a plastic tube which doubles as a trial jar, with hydrometer instructions included inside
• A basic mead recipe.

The Mead Recipe we include is Joe's Ancient Orange Mead (also known as JAO), posted by Joe Mattioli on Got Mead around 2003. It's a well-known, simple Mead Recipe many people make first time.

If you want to know the alcohol content of your mead, you will need a hydrometer which is in the mini kit with instructions for use.

Please note that you will need to sterilise your equipment with either a proprietary homebrew cleaner/steriliser or Muntons steriliser also works. Fermenting vessel (such as bucket or demijohn), steriliser, ingredients, syphon and bottles are not included - this kit assumes you already have the demijohn and steriliser you need to get started.