--- product_id: 4021948 title: "The Complete Guide to Making Mead: The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine" price: "193 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/4021948-the-complete-guide-to-making-mead-the-ingredients-equipment-processes store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # The Complete Guide to Making Mead: The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine **Price:** 193 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Complete Guide to Making Mead: The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine - **How much does it cost?** 193 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/4021948-the-complete-guide-to-making-mead-the-ingredients-equipment-processes) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Complete Guide to Making Mead: The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine [Piatz, Steve] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Complete Guide to Making Mead: The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine Review: Highly Recommended - Steve Piatz is a retired electrical engineer, a Grandmaster Beer Judge, award winning beer and mead brewer and the American Homebrewers Association 2008 Mead maker of the year. Steve covers the essentials, providing an overview of the history of mead, the different types of honey and mead, key ingredients, what kinds of yeast to use, how to make mead, how to finish it, and package it. He finishes the book with sections on advanced techniques, how to develop recipes, provides several example recipes, and concludes with a chapter on troubleshooting. What I find most fascinating about this book is how well Steve conveys the attention to detail and the technique of an award winning homebrewer and how brewing is both an art and a science. For that reason even homebrewers who never intend to make mead will benefit from this book. Steve writes clearly enough for the novice to follow and provides enough tricks of the trade and insights from his long brewing experience to reward the more experienced homebrewer. The book is beautifully photographed and laid out, well organized, and well written. I highly recommend it. Review: The Almost Complete Guide -- highly recommended - My hunch is that most first-time meadmakers are already experienced at either homebrewing or winemaking. So this book -- that tries to be complete yet is also written for the person without any of this experience -- spends a lot of time on some fairly elementary details for such folks, but lacks really in-depth discussions on some of the questions that are likely to pop up, especially as the meadmaker wants to try anything beyond the most elementary. My first meadmaking read was Ken Schramm's "The Compleat Mead Maker," but that is over 10 years old now and is now dated. So it isn't that one author knows more than the other, because both are recognized as experts in the meadmaking arena. In that respect, I rate Piatz's book as better because it is newer and covers subjects such as degassing and staggered nutrient additions that aren't covered in Schramm's older book. Yet I really wish that Piatz's book would have gone into more detail of the underlying logic of some procedures (such as these) so that I could make judgments as to whether his "typical" approach would work in all instances or in mine. I highly recommend buying this book because it touches on just about every topic that I could imagine, although I did find it particularly lacking on the small little matter of oxygenating musts. While this might not be relevant to the first-time meadmaker that has also never made beer or wine, most experienced homebrewers will have the equipment to do this and routinely use pure oxygen on high-gravity worts. In short, buy this book if you're interested in meadmaking, but still be prepared to surf the net and/or ask questions of homebrewing or winemaking friends that have experience making mead. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #380,173 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #80 in Beer (Books) #251 in Wine (Books) #269 in Homebrewing, Distilling & Wine Making | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (389) | | Dimensions | 8.5 x 0.5 x 11.05 inches | | ISBN-10 | 0760345643 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0760345641 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 160 pages | | Publication date | July 30, 2014 | | Publisher | Voyageur Press | ## Images ![The Complete Guide to Making Mead: The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91vPSy9T3EL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Recommended *by A***S on August 7, 2014* Steve Piatz is a retired electrical engineer, a Grandmaster Beer Judge, award winning beer and mead brewer and the American Homebrewers Association 2008 Mead maker of the year. Steve covers the essentials, providing an overview of the history of mead, the different types of honey and mead, key ingredients, what kinds of yeast to use, how to make mead, how to finish it, and package it. He finishes the book with sections on advanced techniques, how to develop recipes, provides several example recipes, and concludes with a chapter on troubleshooting. What I find most fascinating about this book is how well Steve conveys the attention to detail and the technique of an award winning homebrewer and how brewing is both an art and a science. For that reason even homebrewers who never intend to make mead will benefit from this book. Steve writes clearly enough for the novice to follow and provides enough tricks of the trade and insights from his long brewing experience to reward the more experienced homebrewer. The book is beautifully photographed and laid out, well organized, and well written. I highly recommend it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Almost Complete Guide -- highly recommended *by A***N on September 9, 2014* My hunch is that most first-time meadmakers are already experienced at either homebrewing or winemaking. So this book -- that tries to be complete yet is also written for the person without any of this experience -- spends a lot of time on some fairly elementary details for such folks, but lacks really in-depth discussions on some of the questions that are likely to pop up, especially as the meadmaker wants to try anything beyond the most elementary. My first meadmaking read was Ken Schramm's "The Compleat Mead Maker," but that is over 10 years old now and is now dated. So it isn't that one author knows more than the other, because both are recognized as experts in the meadmaking arena. In that respect, I rate Piatz's book as better because it is newer and covers subjects such as degassing and staggered nutrient additions that aren't covered in Schramm's older book. Yet I really wish that Piatz's book would have gone into more detail of the underlying logic of some procedures (such as these) so that I could make judgments as to whether his "typical" approach would work in all instances or in mine. I highly recommend buying this book because it touches on just about every topic that I could imagine, although I did find it particularly lacking on the small little matter of oxygenating musts. While this might not be relevant to the first-time meadmaker that has also never made beer or wine, most experienced homebrewers will have the equipment to do this and routinely use pure oxygen on high-gravity worts. In short, buy this book if you're interested in meadmaking, but still be prepared to surf the net and/or ask questions of homebrewing or winemaking friends that have experience making mead. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for beginners *by C***R on January 31, 2018* Been a mead maker for 22 years... like this book because it reads easy. I don't always agree with some of the techniques, but it's a great asset for people just starting out. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pl/products/4021948-the-complete-guide-to-making-mead-the-ingredients-equipment-processes](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/4021948-the-complete-guide-to-making-mead-the-ingredients-equipment-processes) --- *Product available on Desertcart Poland* *Store origin: PL* *Last updated: 2026-05-07*