Easy to use 1 gallon mead making kit that includes the core equipment, ingredients and instructions you need to brew your first batch, with only honey and bottles required. Follow the simple step by step guide and included recipes to combine ingredients, ferment, rack and bottle your own homemade mead.
The North Mountain Supply 1 Gallon Mead Making Kit is designed to make your first mead batch as straightforward as possible. It gathers the essential hardware and key additives into one package, so you can focus on learning the process and enjoying the results. All you need to add is honey, water and bottles for packaging.
This kit is centered around a 1 gallon batch size, which is ideal for beginners and experimenters. It is large enough to give you several bottles of finished mead, but small enough to be manageable in most kitchens and storage spaces. The included instructions break the process into seven basic steps, from mixing and fermenting through racking and bottling, so you can follow along even if you have never brewed before.
Included in the kit:
1 gallon glass jug
Airlock
Drilled stopper sized for the jug
Racking cane with tubing and clamp
Funnel
3 pack of Red Star yeast
Yeast nutrient
Sodium metabisulfite
Sanitizer
The 1 gallon jug serves as your primary fermenter, and the drilled stopper and airlock work together to let CO2 escape during fermentation while helping protect your mead from outside air and contaminants. The racking cane, tubing and clamp make it easier to transfer mead off the sediment into a clean vessel, which improves clarity and stability. The funnel helps you pour ingredients and must into the jug without making a mess.
On the ingredient side, the included yeast, yeast nutrient, sodium metabisulfite and sanitizer give you the essentials for healthy fermentation and clean equipment. Yeast nutrient supports yeast health and helps encourage complete fermentation. Sodium metabisulfite and sanitizer are used in the cleaning and stabilizing stages when appropriate, following the instructions.
The kit is supplemented by printed instructions that outline seven basic steps to making mead and provide starter recipes. These recipes give you a framework for traditional mead and variations, and you can build on them later with your own fruit, spice and flavor additions as your experience grows.
A typical workflow with this kit looks like:
Clean and sanitize equipment
Combine honey, water, nutrient and other ingredients as directed
Pitch yeast and attach the airlock to the jug
Allow fermentation to proceed as guided by the instructions
Rack the mead off sediment with the racking cane and tubing
Clarify, stabilize and age as desired
Bottle the finished mead in your own bottles
Key features:
Complete 1 gallon mead making starter kit
Includes jug, airlock, drilled stopper, racking cane, tubing, clamp and funnel
Comes with Red Star yeast, yeast nutrient, sodium metabisulfite and sanitizer
Instructions include seven basic steps and starter recipes
Only honey and bottles are required in addition to the kit contents
Whether you are completely new to fermentation or branching out from beer or wine into mead, this kit gives you a compact, well matched set of tools and ingredients to learn the process and start crafting your own honey based beverages at home.
