Dragon's Blood Mead

Ingredients needed 3lbs honey (clover) 1 32 oz RW Knudsen Organic Just Tart Cherry Juice 1 packet Lanvin D47 Yeast Nutrient

Supplies 1 Gallon Fermentation Vessel 1 bung plug 1 airlock 1 siphon 1 Graduated Cylinder 1 Hydrometer 1 Funnel 1 Turkey Baster

1. Warm the honey to aid in pouring into your fermentation vessel.

2. Add all the honey, all of the Tart Cherry Juice, and 1 tsp yeast nutrient. Then either shake or stir until well combined.

3. Top with yeast and water leaving enough head space to shake and combine as well to allow for a possible vigorous fermentation (as I have found while fermenting cherry juice).

4. Pull off a sample into you graduated cylinder and use the hydrometer to collect you Original Gravity or OG

5. Put in bung plug and airlock (filled with Starsan) and place in a dark place (60 - 75 degrees F).

6. Once fermentation has completed (check with hydrometer reading) rack/siphon over to new 1 gal fermentation vessel leaving the yeast byproduct behind and allow to clear.

7. Bottle and enjoy, bottle aging will aid with flavor profile.