5 gallon 6.6g Fermaid-O 1 packet of White Labs WLP800 Pilsner Lager 1.040 SG / 10 Brix 1.000 Estimated FG 1.010 Back sweetened with 1.5 lbs of honey 4 lbs Light clover honey 2 lbs Flaked corn Hop Schedule 1 oz Cascade pellet hops @ 20 mins left in the boil 1.5 oz Cascade pellet hops @ 10 mins left in the boil 1 oz Cascade pellet hops @ 5 mins left in the boil Bring 6 gallons of water to 150F and steep the flaked corn (in a mesh bag preferably) for 90 minutes. Do your best to hold the temp of the mash at 148F. At the end of the 90 minute mash, remove the flaked corn and add your honey. Top off with water to reach 6.5 gallons total volume. Make sure the honey is well diluted into the water and bring to a boil. Once at a boil, start a timer for 90 minutes, and follow the hop schedule provided above. At the end of the boil, chill the must down as close to 50F as quickly as possible and pitch your yeast at similar temperature of the must. Ferment this mead as close to 50F as possible. For the sake of making this on the home brew level, you will be fermenting this dry and then back sweetening to 1.010 SG. This will take roughly 1.5 lbs of honey in 5 gallons of mead. For nutrient additions, add all of your nutrient in at once 24-hours after yeast pitch. Once fermentation is over, rack, stabilize and back sweeten your mead. Then filter or clarify if desired and force carbonate in a keg.
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