Pour mead into a large saucepan. Cut an orange half into thin slices and add to the saucepan. Squeeze the remaining orange into the mead. Add the cloves and cinnamon. Set over low heat and bring ...

It was also challenging to find historically appropriate yeast for the fermentation. Most modern mead makers use commercial wine yeast, per Tarlach, but the 1393 recipe called for beer or bread yeast.

Jason Phelps Mead Recipe: Blueberry Blossom Traditional. 5 gallons. 19# of blueberry blossom honey. Water to 5 gallons (some hot, the rest cold) 20 grams of yeast (Lalvin 71B-1122 or Cote de Blancs) ...

For the uninitiated, mead is a drink made by fermenting honey. Hailed as humanity’s first foray into making alcoholic beverages, mead predates both beer and wine.