Mead Making Starter Kit – 5L PET Demijohn, Mead Yeast & Spice Infusion (Just Add Honey)

Make your own mead – the honey wine that's older than beer – with everything you need in one box apart from the honey. The Mead Making Starter Kit pairs a 5 litre PET demijohn and the essential equipment with Bulldog mead yeast and nutrient, plus a spice infusion of your choice to turn your finished mead into something special.

What's in the box

• 1 × Bulldog Mead Yeast & Nutrition – mead yeast with the nutrients honey lacks already blended in
• 1 × mead infusion pack of your choice, with a spice bag (not in the Traditional option)
• 1 × 5 litre PET demijohn with screw cap and grommet
• 1 × bubbler airlock
• 1 × wine and beer hydrometer in a clear tube that doubles as a trial jar
• 1 × stick-on thermometer
• 1 × complete simple syphon (small)
• 6 × plastic-topped corks that push into standard wine bottles by hand
• 1 × Brewco No Rinse Sanitiser 100g

Choose your flavour

• Winter Spice
• Chocolate Orange
• Chocolate Cinnamon
• Exotic Spice
• Mediterranean Citrus
• Traditional – a plain honey mead, no infusion

How to make it

Sanitise everything. Dissolve about 1.5kg of honey in warm water, pour it into the demijohn and top up with cool water to about 4.5 litres. Take a hydrometer reading, add the mead yeast, fit the cap and airlock and stick on the thermometer. Ferment at about 20–25°C until the hydrometer reading stops changing, then syphon the mead off its sediment and let it clear. Steep the infusion as its pack describes, tasting after 24 hours, then bottle and cork. Always follow the instructions on the yeast and infusion packs.

Why this kit

• Everything except the honey in one box
• Yeast with nutrient already blended in, so the honey ferments properly
• A choice of five infusions to make your mead your own
• A hydrometer and thermometer to keep it on track
• Corks included and no corker needed

A brilliant gift for anyone who likes something a little different. See all our home brew starter kits.