 | The Compleat Meadmaker : Home Production of Honey Wine From Your First Batch to Award-winning Fruit and Herb Variations by Ken Schramm
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $13.91 This is the standard mead makers book. Pretty good book but can get a bit in-depth if you are just a beginner.
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 | Mad About Mead: Nectar of the Gods by Pamela Spence
Buy used from: $20.98 Wonderful book but out of print and can be a bit difficult to get. If one of these books is available I recommend you get it.
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 | Miller's Honey, Wild, 3-Pound Jar (Pack of 2)
Buy new: $22.23 This is a good honey at a reasonable price. It comes in 3 pound sizes which makes it a perfect for 1 gallon of medium mead.
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 | 3 Piece Plastic Airlock (Sold in sets of 3)
Buy new: $2.99 A plastic airlock that goes on top of your mead brewing jug. This will allow the fermentation gases to escape while not allowing contaminants to enter.
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 | 5 Gallon Glass Carboy For Beer or Wine Making
Buy new: $31.95 Good for brewing up 5 gallons of mead.
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 | 3 Gallon Glass Carboy for Beer or Wine Making
Buy new: $31.00 Great alternative to the 5 gallon batch. This way you still get a good amount of mead without the large expense of all that honey.
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 | Drilled Rubber Stopper (Carboy Bung Sets of 3)
Buy new: $1.65 This drilled rubber stopper goes in the glass carboy and then the airlock goes in the center. These stoppers will fit 3, 5, 6, and 6.5 gallon carboys. If you are going with the 1 gallon jug then you shouldn't order these stoppers.
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 | 6.5 Gallon Bottling Bucket with Lid and Spigot for Bottling Beer
Buy new: $16.50 A plastic food grade bucket is the way to go if you are going to be making mead more than once. This makes it easy to stir, and take care of.
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 | Triple Scale Hydrometer
Buy new: $5.95 A very inexpesive way to keep track of the progress of your mead and to know when it is done.
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 | Vinyl Tubing - 10 feet 5/16 ID - 7/16 OD (Food Grade)
Buy new: $2.99 Food grade vinyl tubing for siphoning the mead out of one container and into another container. This is a must. You should siphon your mead into a fresh container once a cake of sediment settles on the bottom of the jug. It will make the mead crisper and better tasting.
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 | Active Dry Yeast
Buy new: $0.40 Just about any active yeast will work great with mead making. Once you get going with your mead making you can start to explore the various wine yeasts. But to get started any kind of bread yeast should work just fine. I have used Fleischmann's bread yeast many times.
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 | Wine Making Equipment Kit
Buy new: $105.95 This is a nice equipment set at a low price that gives you everything you need to get started. You add water, honey and yeast and you are on your way to fermenting your first batch.
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