Mead-Base 2025

This is our Base mead recepe for the year 2025.

For this year, we’ve gone for “fast and fruity”, focussing on agressive fermentation with lots of fruity undertones.

Using a Kveik and enzymes to get a dry, fresh and fruity end result. We’ve focussed on melomels, but one can add 450-900g of extra honey and make a basic mead instead using the same recepe!

Due to the focus on fast and easy ferments, we’ve focussed on juice-based melomels instead of solid fruits. In general this is a great base recepe for people new to fermenting who want a fail-safe cyser.

For the full recepe, check out the TrueForge Mealie recepe available here: TBD add link

Recepe:

Day 0: Add to vessel:

• Juice
• 150-180g honey per liter
• Pectic-enzyme (grams according to instructions)
• Kveik Hornidal yeast, according to instructions
• Fermaid-O 1g/liter
• 50ml/l of extremely dark black tea

Day 2:

• mix another Fermaid-O 1g/liter with a bit of water and add

Day 5:

• mix another Fermaid-O 1g/liter with a bit of water and add

Day 14:

• taste for sweetness, acidity etc.
• Carefully drain into secondary container, leaving sediment behind
• Compensate using erythritol (about 15- 25g/l often)
• Steer
• O(ptionally): put in fridge

Day 28:

• Add priming sugar to bottles 13g/l
• Bottle, leaving any sediment behind in secondary container
• Leave bottles at room temperature for at least 14 days