My Apple Mead Or Homemade Apple Honey Wine Recipe

How to make it

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• First place a couple of the rubber bands on the neck of the bottle, nice and tightly wrapped.
• Fill the bottom of the five gallon bottle with honey, I do between one and two inches deep of the golden stuff! I like me some sweet honey wine!!
• Pour in one gallon of the apple juice.
• Put the lid on the bottle and shake as best as you can until well mixed!
• Now add the other 3 gallons of apple juice.
• Add warm water, NOT hot, to the point where the bottle starts to curve.
• You want to leave that top part empty, do NOT over fill.
• Put on the lid and kinda swish it all together.
• Now put in the yeast. I buy that brown bottle of yeast from the store. I use half of it. I ca not tell you how much that is.
• Swish again with lid on.
• Now take off the lid.
• Put the open end of the ballon as far down the neck of the bottle as you can.
• And then roll the rubber bands up the neck/balloon and place them about and inch apart to keep the balloon on.
• You do not want bad bactria getting into the honey wine and making Honey Vinegar.
• This needs to be kept warmish. NOT hot, and not too cold. 60's is good.
• I push it into the corner of my bedroom and forget it for a six-ish weeks.
• The balloon will fill up and then go back down while this ferments.
• When the balloon is on its way back down you may bottle this.
• Or drink it right away if you want, it may be a little harsh.
• I bottle it by getting one of those tubes with the slider on it that starts and stops the flow.
• Suck the wine to get it started, stop the flow, put end in bottle, fill, stop flow, get new bottle, fill, repeat, repeat, repeat, until done....Hic!!!
• Do NOT let the tube near the bottle of the 5 gallon bottle.
• You do not want all that settlement in your bottles.
• You want it to be golden and clear.
• Get out as much into bottles as you can, drink the settlement if you want or use it to cook pork with!!! YES!
• If you are going to use it for cooking bottle it to just make it clearly so you do not serve it to SOBER friends and family!
• Take the bottles and put them in a cool place to mellow. I had a wine rack built under the end of my mobile home when I first started this.
• Yes there was a lock on the door! But my boyfriend got the key and drank it all anyway, sigh....
• After about 6 weeks I start using it.
• If you want this for Yule you need to start it up pretty soon!!!