What the cellar leaves out

A real meadmaker has a great deal more to play with:

• A melomel adds fruit.
• A cyser is made with apple juice.
• A pyment is made with grapes.
• A metheglin carries spices or herbs.
• A braggot carries malted grain.
• A bochet is caramelised honey.

Most need their own ageing and their own care.

A real batch also asks for daily attention in its first days:

• Rehydrating the yeast.
• Stirring in oxygen.
• Degassing.
• Dosing nutrient on time.
• Taking readings.
• Remembering to rack.

This cellar makes one kind, the traditional mead, from one honey at a time, with no blends. It does the stirring, the dosing, the readings and both rackings on the right days, whether you are watching or not.