Mead Batch Tracker.
Hive to glass — Honey-wine brewing journal.
What's inside.
Fifty single-page batch entries built for mead's longer arc — most meads need patience the way most beers don't. Each spread tracks honey source and weight, water volume, target and actual gravity, nutrient additions (with space for staggered schedules), fermentation timeline, racking dates, and tasting at two points: young, and aged.
The back matter is a mead-specific reference library: a mead-friendly yeast strain table, style families covering traditional, fruit, spiced, and specialty meads, a nutrient-additions primer, and troubleshooting tuned to the faults meads actually develop — H2S, fusel alcohols, stuck fermentations.
Built for.
Home meadmakers running more than one or two batches a year. The book assumes familiarity with hydrometers and basic must chemistry — the reference library is depth, not entry-level explanation.
Part of the Fermentation Series.
Vol. II in the five-volume Fermentation Series, after the Homebrew Batch Tracker. The series is built so a fermenter working multiple crafts uses the same batch-spread pattern across all of them.
Published by Cellar Bench. Author: R J Barley. ISBN and KDP listing details on the Amazon page.