I am looking for a recipe for traditional viking Mjød. If anyone has a recipe they can send me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Source: Michael Tighe (tighe@inmet.camb.inmet.com)
Mead Lover's Digest #211, 21 September 1993

Ingredients:

10 lbs. honey
Citrus peel
sliced ginger
yeast

Source: John (The Coyote) Wyllie (SLK6P@cc.usu.edu)
Mead Lover's Digest #214, 24 September 1993

Ingredients:

7 lb Clover Honey
6 (med) grapefruit
1 Tbsp fresh grated ginger
Dash of acid blend. (Worth doing an acid test. Didn't have a kit then)
1/2 oz cascade hops used as finishing hops in a lig

Source: Roger Locniskar (loc@bostech.com)
Mead Lover's Digest #11, 8 October 1992

Ingredients:

7.5lbs Citrus Honey (Orange Blossom is the best or whatever)
25-30lbs Plums (halved and pitted is best, but at least halved)
3-4 tsp. Yeast Nutrient
1 pkg Pectic Enzyme
1 pkg Champagne Yeast

Source: Gordon Olson (glo@lanl.gov)
Mead Lover's Digest #195, 16 August 1993

Ingredients:

12 pounds of blended clover honey
1/2 tsp. Irish moss
11 pounds of pitted, pureed, peaches
2 pkgs. Red Star Pris de Mousse yeast

Source: John (The Coyote) Wyllie (SLK6P@cc.usu.edu)
Mead Lover's Digest #214, 24 September 1993

Ingredients:

3/4 bushel of fresh peaches
6 lb. Clover honey
6 lb. corn sugar
2-1/2 tsp. Pectic enzyme
2 0z. Acid blend

Source: Thomas Manteufel (thomas@ct.med.ge.com)
Mead Lover's Digest #148, 6 June 1993

Ingredients (1 gallon):

2# wildflower honey
12 ozs. frozen mulberries
water up to 1 gallon
Red Star Montrachet yeast

Source: RON.admin@admin.creol.ucf.edu (RON)
From: Mead Lover's Digest #269 22 February 1994

Ingredients:

1/2 gal Motts apple juice
1/2 gal Fresh Apple Cider
10 lbs Clover Honey
5 tsp yeast nutrient
3 tsp acid blend

Source: Guy McConnell (guym@exabyte.com)

Ingredients:

6 lb. Cover Honey
1 lb. Orange Blossom Honey
1.5 lb. Corn Sugar
2 oz. Fresh, minced Ginger Root
3 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
3 tsp. Yeast Extract

Source: Dave Polaschek (DaveP@county.lmt.mn.org)
Mead Lover's Digest #230, 26 October 1993

Ingredients:

10 lbs light clover honey
2 lbs blueberries (I used frozen)
1 gallon apple cider (pasteurized)
1/2 oz Saaz hops
yeast nutrient to instructions on package

Source: John (The Coyote) Wyllie (SLK6P@cc.usu.edu)
Mead Lover's Digest #243, 9 December 1993

Ingredients (2 gallons):

1 gal Oceanspray cranberry juice. (good jug too!)
5 lb vernal honey (clover-alphalp

Source: Jay Hersh (hersh@x.org)
Mead Lover's Digest #244, 12 December 1993

Ingredients (3 gallons):

6 lbs Raw Clover Honey (from Haber Apiary in Troy, NY)
1 tsp water crystals
1 tsp yeast nutrient
3/4 oz Cascade leaf hops
Irish Moss

Source: Alan Derr (aderr@BBN.COM)
Mead Lover's Digest #122, 1 May 1993

Ingredients:

10 lb clover honey (basic, grocery store variety)
2-12oz bags of frozen Maine wild blueberries
1/4 c jasmine tea (dry)
3 tsp. pectic enzyme
3 tsp. yeast nutrient

Source: Kirk Williams (williams@tsasa.lanl.gov)
Mead Lover's Digest #289, 10 April 1994

Ingredients (1 gallon):

1.5 lbs black honey
1 lb clover honey
1 lb blackberries (frozen)
pectic enzyme
ale yeast

Source: Mike Lindner (mpl@cmprime.att.com)
Mead Lover's Digest #190, 11 August 1993

Ingredients:

9 lbs. wildflower honey
4 oz. grated ginger root
1 1/2 t. gypsum
1 t. citric acid
1 T. yeast nutrient

Source: Microburst Brewery (Forrest Cook (cook@stout.atd.ucar.edu)) and
Jon Corbet)
Mead Lover's Digest #123, 1 May 1993

Ingredients (7 Gallons):

9 Lbs of mesquite honey from Tempe, AZ
2 Tbsp gypsum to harden up the water a bit
1 4 ounce bottle of Madagascar vanilla extract

Source: Ken Schramm, communicated by
Daniel F. McConnell (Daniel_F_McConnell@mailgw.surg.med.umich.edu)

Ingredients:

15 lb honey
28 gr whole nutmegs, freshly ground and infused in the boil
2, 3-inch cinnamon sticks
2T ascorbic acid
2T citric acid

Source: Leigh Ann Hussey (leighann@sybase.com)
Mead Lover's Digest #5, 1 October 1992

Ingredients (1 gallon):

4lb honey
1/4t citric acid
1 pint lavender flowers
1/2t tannin powder
1/2t champagne yeast

Source: J. Hunter Heinlen (STBLEZA@grove.iup.edu)
Based on a wine recipe by Tom Gressman
Mead Lovers Digest #171, 10 July 1993

Ingredients:

4 gal. grape juice
8-10 lbs. honey
4 largish oranges, sliced into eigths or sixteenths
other citrus fruits usable to taste

Source: Scott James (scojam@scojam.Auto-trol.COM)
Mead Lover's Digest #18, 16 October 1992

Ingredients:

10 lbs honey (clover honey, processed. From local super market chain)
1 can concentrated white grape juice
(condensed for reisling wine; from homebrew shop)
5 gal. water
5 grams d