Learn how to make this ancient and delicious beverage. With Ernest Harrop's perfected metheglin recipe you too can enjoy a dry sparkling ginger mead. With very few ingredients and a short aging process this tutorial will change the way you think about mead.
Metheglin, or infused honey wine is one of many techniques to produce mead. It requires the similar equipment to make beer or wine, which makes the step into Mead production an easy one. The greatest thing about Ernest recipe is that it takes very little time to prepare and does not require the extended aging times of traditional straight mead (up to eight years!) With this technique you can be enjoying sparkling ginger mead in about a month, which is a beautiful thing.
We were pleasantly surprised when we first tasted Ernest?s mead; it was not like any other mead we have tasted before. It is dry, sparkling and delicious.