Kung Pao Cousin (Pepper-Spiced Mead) Recipe
This sweet heat mead recipe was provided by Josh Holbrook (former Meadmaker of the Year) and includes both the intensely hot Carolina Reaper peppers and tongue-numbing Sansho peppercorns – a cousin to Sichuan peppercorn, thus Kung Pao Cousin. It details fermentation as well as the making of the two pepper tinctures for flavoring. See our