How to make mead. By . Tom Gosnell. Learn how to make mead at home with our step-by-step guide, including a basic mead recipe, brewing tips and advice on essential equipment from the experts.

Pawpaw Mead Recipe. Yield: about 1 gallon. Ingredients: 4 cups pawpaw pulp; 1 pound honey; 1/2 gallon apple cider; 1/2 gallon water; Here’s how I made my first batch of pawpaw mead with frozen pulp.

MEADMAKERS: Lynn and Deondra Childers stand behind the bar at Juniper Tree Meadery. Credit: Stephanie Smittle For the uninitiated, mead is a drink made by fermenting honey. Hailed as humanity’s ...

Harder prunes will need longer cooking time to absorb the mead. 3 Simmer for about 10 minutes (longer if your prunes are hard, but you don’t want soft prunes disintegrating into the liquid).

In “The Miller’s Tale,” mead appears as a means of wooing, and Chaucer describes a young wife with a mouth that is “sweet as bragget or as mead.” 6. Some consider mead to be medicinal.