Not everyone likes beer & sometimes its good just to have a change.   What I have brewed isn't traditional mead according to the excellent BJCP Style Guidelines, but Melomel.   I made the recipe up even though there are many places to find recipes.   Apart from the beer yeast, all the ingredients can be bought from a supermarket easily;

DM's 1st attempt at mead

2 large jars of honey (906g each).  

2 litres of apple juice (clear).  

2 lemons

Add the apple juice to a clean demijohn, then honey using a funnel.   Juice the lemons & add that.   Rinse out honey jars with very hot water into the demijohn then top up with this very hot water - to make 4.5 litres - to help dissolve the honey.

When the mixture has cooled a little, add beer yeast & fit an airlock.   I used beer yeast as I didn't want a sipping drink, I wanted something that would be drunk in a similar way to beer.   My estimation is that it makes a drink equivelent in alcohol to a strong beer (maybe 6-9%).

The mixture fermented for about 4 weeks before really slowing down.   I bottled it into 1 litre plastic bottles & it still needed degassing several times before settling down.

Verdict: A little sweet for my liking, but a pleasant drink.   The people I brewed it for liked it & said it tasted like Lemsip (the honey & lemon cold remedy) & now I have moved away from Manchesterⁱ want to brew it themselves.

Verdict after 6 months: A much dryer drink, but still with some residual honey sweetness. A kind of half-way house between wine & cider - certainly not for quaffing! So good, I made some more.