Undómiel – Jasmine Tea Mead

Recipe
2 kg (4.4 lbs) of Honey
2.5 Litres of spring water
Juice of 1 lemon
A cup of very strong jasmine tea (take the tea leaves out, leave a few jasmine blossoms in)
1 package of Lalvin EC-1118 yeast
1 snack sized box of raisins (no additives)

 

So far the two meads I’ve made aren’t going to be very sweet. I was thinking I’d like to try my hand at a sweet one and I really wanted to try a mead made with Jasmine tea. I also wanted to try to make a mead using all natural ingredients.

 

The juice of the lemon is for the acid. The nutrients for the yeast come from the raisins. The tea is primarily for the tannins but I left some of the jasmine blossoms in the must for flavour.

 

I took a hydrometer reading: 1.130

 

The pictures show:

 

1 Jasmine tea with blossoms floating on top

2 Strong loose leaf jasmine tea, these leaves were discarded

3 The must: honey, water and lemon juice

4 Raisins; I only used one box

5 The must sealed with the airlock

6 Raisins sitting on the bottom of the jug

7 Foaming bubbles are the result of the pitched yeast and 6 minutes of shaking the jug