If you want to make homemade mead for a special event, plan your production schedule accordingly — like all home brewing projects, mead-making is an exercise in delayed gratification.

participants will make their own 1-gallon jug of mead to take home. Materials provided: mead honey 3lbs, fermentation yeast, 1 gallon jug, jug stopper, an air lock and some food grade plastic ...

But that is what Matt Newell, 30, has done, using honey from his beehives to make mead - an alcoholic drink - that is now on sale across the Wye Valley. Mr Newell, from Chepstow, launched his ...