Traditional Chinese Honey: Fermentation Process, Recipe & Home Production Guide

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Honey wineComrade Li Zhongpu of the Science and Technology Committee of Linxiang County, Hunan Province got inspiration from the ancient "Mead Song". Through hundreds of experiments, he has successfully brewed mead, so that the long-lost honey wine will return to people's lives."The skillful use of honey to refine jade liquid is ten thousand times more powerful than the golden elixir." This is the Song Dynasty scholar Su Dongpo's high praise for honey wine. He also described the process of honey brewing in "Song of Honey Wine": "One day a small boiling fish spits foam, the next day it turns bright and clear, the third day the jar is opened and the fragrance fills the city, and the silver bottle is quickly purged without removing it..." Comrade Li Zhongpu firmly believed that since there are such detailed records of honey brewing in ancient times, there is a certain brewing method that can be discovered and utilized.Nowadays, most wine making uses grain or other plant starch, and all must go through the reaction process of converting starch into sugar, and then converting sugar into wine. If honey is used to make wine, although the step of converting starch into sugar is reduced, the difficulty of making wine actually increases, because the more than ten kinds of wine enzymes required to activate the conversion process cannot be produced normally. It is necessary to screen out a suitable yeast strain from a variety of yeasts, and select appropriate conditions such as fermentation temperature, salinity, and feeding concentration. …

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