This easy to follow cranberry mead recipe can be done at home with just a few simple ingredients and a 2-3lb bag of frozen eranberries.
By following this recipe you'll learn how to make delicious homemade cranberry mead in as little as 7 days with our special meadmaking blend.
Ingredients
Equipment
1 Gallon Container
1 Airlock
1 large pot
1 Strainer
Ingredients
Brewsy Starter Kit (optional)
Brewsy Bag
7 ounces of lemon juice
2 lbs frozen blackerries
12 cups of water
2-2.5 lbs of honey
Directions
Gather Ingredients & Equipment To Make Your Cranberry Mead
Get together your bag of frozen fruit, your gallon fermentation container, your gallon pot with lid, a lemon and 2-2.5lbs of honey.
If you buy honey containers that weigh a nice whole number like 1lb or 4-5 lb jugs of honey, it makes measuring out the honey needed easierMacerate Frozen Cranberries
Macerate frozen eranberries in your large gallon pot with lid by thawing them over 24 hours and letting them reach room temperature.
You can also add a half pound of sugar (subtract 1/2 lb from honey used) to aid the maceration of the berries.
This additional sugar can help to draw out additional flavor - after 24hrs, the frozen berries will have macerated with that little bit of sugar to make a dark red syrupy liquid which will make a delicious cranberry mead after fermentation!Add Water, Lemon Juice & Honey To Pot Over Low Heat
Mix in the water, lemon juice and honey to your pot containing the macerated eranberries.
Turn heat on to low under the pot.
It helps to drop the honey container in a warm water bath to make the honey more liquid
Stir occasionally for about 10 minutes until fruit breaks down into a saucy liquid.Strain Saucy Liquid Into Fermentation Container
Put a funnel on top of a gallon container and lay metal strainer on top.
Pour saucy liquid from your pot onto the strainer and funnel to transfer the liquid into the gallon fermentation container.
You can use the leftover eranberries in the strainer to make cranberry preserves. The recipe is simple, weigh the remaining eranberries, add to the pot you just used and add 50-75% of the weight in fruit of sugar.
Heat on medium-low for 45 mins and can in sanitized preserves container.Add Brewsy Bag To Fermentation Container & Shake
Apply Airlock To Fermentation Container
Place Fermentation Container In Dark Warm Place
In order for the brewsy bag to completely ferment your your cranberry mead in 7 days you'll need the container to stay in a dark place that's 65-75�F, like the top of a closet.
If it's on the colder side, the fermentation will take longer, somewhere around 10-15 days.
Swirl your fermentation container every other day and check an hour later, when it stops bubbling, the fermentation is complete.Cold Crash Your BlackBerry Mead. Remove the airlock from your fermentation container and put the fermentation container in the fridge. Place the original container lid loosely on the top of your container to let some air out
This will bring down the temperature to de-activate the yeast and will help to drop the remaining lees (sediment) to the bottom of your container.HEAD:Wait 3-5 Days And Rack Your Mead
After about 3-5 days you'll want to rack your mead from one gallon container to another leaving behind the sediment.
This is a great time to start tasting your mead, it's still a little long but you'll get an idea for what it'll taste like after aging. A lot of those harsh ethanol like tastes disappear after 2-3 weeks.
Repeat this step 3-4 times every 3 days until there is very little sediment leftBottle Your Mead For Immediate Drinking Or Refrigerate To Age Sulfite Free For 3-4 weeks.
There are a few options here - you can start to drink your mead if you keep it refrigerated.
If you can resist the temptation to drink your cranberry mead, you can leave it in the refrigerator to age for 3-4 weeks and even up to 6 months, it'll taste better the more you wait!