The outline of a bucket with and airlock.

Equipment

All of the equipment listed below is essential in order to follow modern mead-making practices. To help simplify the equipment required, we have created categories of equipment.

Vessels

  1. ten-litre food-grade plastic bucket, with lid (the lid should be tight-fitting and have a hole with a grommet installed for an airlock)
  2. five-litre glass demijohn
  3. demijohn bung, with a hole to fit the airlock
  4. Airlock for the bucket and demijohn

Measuring Equipment

  1. Triple-scaled hydrometer
  2. 100ml cylinder
  3. Stick on thermometer
  4. Probe thermometer
  5. 250ml microwave-safe measuring jug
  6. Wine thief or a stainless steel turkey baster
  7. Large stainless steel spoon
  8. Baking scales
  9. Micro-accurate scales, accurate to 0.1g

Transferring and Bottling

  1. Auto-siphon with tubing
  2. Bottling stick
  3. Hand crown capper for 26mm caps or twin lever hand corker

  4. Bottlebrush

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