Make your own mead at home.

[reddragdiva]

By the way, here's the ghetto way to make mead*:

• empty 5 litre plastic container
• 1 litre cheap orange juice
• 1 kilo honey
• enough hot water to top it up to 4 litres (e.g. by washing out the honey jars)
• two teaspoons brewer's yeast
• cap it, shake it REALLY HARD to mix it up
• balloon with pinhole to serve as airlock on top
• leave for two months (Change balloon every couple of weeks.) Filter. Leave for another two months.

If you want to be super-ghetto and use bread yeast, start off two teaspoons yeast in a jam jar with two tablespoons warm water and one tablespoon sugar. Leave it to stand for 5-10 min until it starts frothing. Then put that in the above and proceed from the shaking step.

This sort of thing is why banning alcohol is futile.

See also: arkady's mead blog. Here's a two-litre three-week version.

* technically an orange melomel, but nobody cares

Comments

[rosefox]

Er, this may be a US/UK thing, but here "ghetto" is a very racially coded term.