Curt & Kathy's Sweet Mead Kit

  • Sweet mead in a drinking glass

Curt & Kathy's Sweet Mead Kit

SKU 6314B

PRICE AS CONFIGURED:

$124.99

Product Details

A pure, unadulterated sweet mead from your choice of a single honey variety.

Honey varieties can taste incredibly different from one another. The best way to savor their flavors is to make a pure, unadulterated sweet mead from a single honey variety. This kit was designed by 2005 mead maker of the year Curt Stock, and it showcases his proven techniques for making mead. We offer this kit with each type of honey we sell, and we encourage you to try them all!

If you enjoyed the Skullduggery Sweet Mead recipe, you'll love this kit!
Honey varieties can taste incredibly different from one another. The best way to savor their flavors is to make a pure, unadulterated sweet mead from a single honey variety.

Orange Blossom Honey: Orange blossom honey has a sweet and fruity taste that is reminiscent of citrus blossoms. Tastes a bit different than Florida orange blossom, and makes a fantastic mead.

Wildflower Honey: Light amber in color and is very sweet and robust. This wildflower is produced by placing hives in prairies and grasslands where bees have access to a wide variety of wild plants. The honey is naturally blended by the bees as they visit many different nectar sources.

Additional Information

Support Documents Click here for documents
SKU

6314B,6314C

Customer Reviews

Based on 9 reviews
89%
(8)
11%
(1)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
N
Nerone F.
Delicious So Far

This kit takes time before it is bottled and ready to drink; however, after the initial fermentation, taste tests were already delicious. We bought the orange blossom honey variety for this kit. The instructions were pretty clear; however, they do not provide any guidance or recommendations on how to stabilize (additives, clearing agents) or on back-sweetening if you want a sweeter mead. The only reason they call this a "sweet" mead kit, is, the wine yeast variety they include will only ferment so far - it stops when there are still residual sugars left in the wine, so it is not completely dry. Still... ALL the more reason to provide some instructions on how to ensure those residual sugars do not start re-fermenting in bottles later on. After some research in online wine groups, we added 1 crushed campden tablet plus 1/4 tsp potassium sorbate per gallon; and, we are also using SuperKleer. It will rest for several months in the carboy before we bottle, but we already are looking forward to enjoying this delicious mead based on taste tests.

R
Randall K.
Modified Curt and and Cathy's Sweet Mead Kit

Modified the kit to turn it into cyser. Not completely successful. Ended up with a final specific gravity of 1020. Low alcohol content but tasty.
Curt and Cathy,s Sweet Mead Kit prior to the modified kit turned out well.

J
James W.
Excellent kit

Easy to follow instructions. Waiting on mead to finish. Look forward to enjoying

B
Buddy C.
Curt and Cathy mead

Kit looks really simple
We are making it today

J
James P.

Curt & Kathy's Sweet Mead Kit

Customer Reviews

Based on 9 reviews
89%
(8)
11%
(1)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
N
Nerone F.
Delicious So Far

This kit takes time before it is bottled and ready to drink; however, after the initial fermentation, taste tests were already delicious. We bought the orange blossom honey variety for this kit. The instructions were pretty clear; however, they do not provide any guidance or recommendations on how to stabilize (additives, clearing agents) or on back-sweetening if you want a sweeter mead. The only reason they call this a "sweet" mead kit, is, the wine yeast variety they include will only ferment so far - it stops when there are still residual sugars left in the wine, so it is not completely dry. Still... ALL the more reason to provide some instructions on how to ensure those residual sugars do not start re-fermenting in bottles later on. After some research in online wine groups, we added 1 crushed campden tablet plus 1/4 tsp potassium sorbate per gallon; and, we are also using SuperKleer. It will rest for several months in the carboy before we bottle, but we already are looking forward to enjoying this delicious mead based on taste tests.

R
Randall K.
Modified Curt and and Cathy's Sweet Mead Kit

Modified the kit to turn it into cyser. Not completely successful. Ended up with a final specific gravity of 1020. Low alcohol content but tasty.
Curt and Cathy,s Sweet Mead Kit prior to the modified kit turned out well.

J
James W.
Excellent kit

Easy to follow instructions. Waiting on mead to finish. Look forward to enjoying

B
Buddy C.
Curt and Cathy mead

Kit looks really simple
We are making it today

J
James P.

Curt & Kathy's Sweet Mead Kit