The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm (2003, Paperback)

This book went into quite a few deteals about making mead that I wasnt sure about. Its defently worth reading

This intelligent and well-written book covers many aspects of mead-making. It starts with the history of mead and its place among other fermented beverages in human history. The process of converting honey to mead is nicely described. At this point, most impressive is the author's explanation of the chemical process which takes place during this conversion. Next, the author covers the various ingredients used in mead-making. Apple-cinnamon mead, anyone? Schramm then goes on to explain what ingredients work well together, and wraps it all up nicely with several suggested (and award-winning) recipes from meads and cysers to melomels and metheglyns alike.
As a 15-year veteran homebrewer of beer, I found this book a great inspiration to take the next step into making mead. I read the book from cover to cover in a week! The first two meads I ever made are fermenting now- not even in the bottle yet, still, they are wonderful! I highly recommend this book to any homebrewer, and to those who have even the slightest interest in mead.

If youve ever made your own cordials to give as presents or your into distilling your own drinks, this is an easy book to follow. It has many recipies from basic mead (wine made from honey) to fruit meads. The instructions are easy to follow and easy to do. If youve ever wanted to try your hand at making mead, this is the book to get. I was a bit intimidated untill I started reading this book. It starts by saying from the first batch you might throw out till you become an expert at it and they arent kidding. I cant imagine you could mess up with as well as this book is written. Go past what your making now and be a Viking for a while! Make Mead!!!

This book is the most comprehensive I've seen about mead. Mead is pretty simple to make, so the real quality comes in the ingredients and that is what most of the book is about.

Indispensable.