Tired of beer, try making your own low-alcohol honey wine using Williams-Sonoma’s Mead Making Kit ($60). The kit includes everything you need to make five 1 gallon batches. Actually making the mead is super easy. Just steep 2 to 3 pounds of honey into 1 gallon of water that has been heated to 160 degrees. Pour it into the growler and add the yeast. In 4-6 weeks you’ll have a nice alcoholic beverage. The earlier you stop the fermentation the sweeter the mead. If you end up making some let us know what you think.
If there was just one experiment you should be trying with friends in the scorching summer it has to be Ben & Jerry’s delicious new invention. This dreamy concoction, New Belgium Beer X Benn & Jerry’s ($TBA) is a collaboration between brewery giants New Belgium and Ben & Jerry’s, the team effort comes as part […]