Easy Cranberry Orange Mead Recipe Using Juice

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A super easy, delicious cranberry orange mead from store bought juice? That's right. Let's make this really easy honey wine using cranberry juice instead of whole fruit.
How did it taste after a year of ageing? Find out here: • Cranberry Orange Mead ...
Ingredients:
2 lbs (.907 kg) Orange Blossom Honey: bevyshoneybees@gmail.com
96 oz Cranberry Juice
2 g Fermaid O
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1 Orange worth of zest
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20 oz Water
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Back sweeten with Honey to Gravity reading of 1.032 (or to your personal tastes)
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@marsautoman Год назад

Love the enthusiasm Brian( Red Bucket of Sanitization )🤣.

@truepanda6020 2 месяца назад

Seeing the joy leave his eyes and soul killed me 🤣🤣🤣

@FFDfirechef 9 месяцев назад

I truly enjoyed Derica finally being front and center in the production of a video.

@CitySteadingBrews 9 месяцев назад

Just FYI, the reason she isn't more often is because she doesn't prefer to have all the attention :)

@FFDfirechef 9 месяцев назад

@@CitySteadingBrews You two make an awesome pair, always great content and information.

@AmulekkofWOW90 Год назад

When I play yalls videos, I'm usually cooking or cleaning. So I'm listening, but not watching so much. But when I heard her set him up, I gasped and rushed across the room. Then I got to see his face when he did it, and I screamed for joy 🤣🤣🤣 After I got done crying, had to rewind and watch again 😅 Love you guys 😁 Cranberry stalls for yall? I brew cranberry juice a lot, it's my favorite! Never stalled 🤔 Omg...Brian is pretty,...PITHED off!, about the orange zest 🤣🤣🤣

@eddavanleemputten9232 Год назад

Love this video! The dynamic of Derica taking the lead is just as fun as Brian being the lead of your video, bit is a nice, refreshing change. On top of that you’ve added yet another brew to my to-make list. Like all the other brews I feel like maling it’ll have to wait until my back surgery has sufficiently healed over. But that’s just timing. Can’t wait for the 1-year tasting!

@johhnyboi2009 Год назад

Would love to see a spiced version of the mead for Christmas time!

@CaptainPickulon 10 месяцев назад

Ive got 2 batches of a spiced version brewing right now

@MrWiley2al 4 месяца назад

I started a batch of this a few weeks ago to spice for Christmas.

@loganmaughan7627 Год назад

Absolutely love Brian’s enthusiasm for turbos lol😂

@geoffreyreuther5260 Год назад

Yeah, I pretty much lost it right there. 😆

@stanleygrover1685 Год назад

I am In favor of Her , RED BUCKET OF Sanitation" .

@josephw.barneyiii8133 Год назад

Ya but Brian's was pretty damn good to lol

@chadenright Год назад

I love the, "I have to go find it," cut that goes to, "It's right behind me" at 12:50. Might've had to work a bit for that humor, but it was worth it!

@greatlakesnarwhalmichellee4507 Год назад

Just wanted to say my airlock arrived yesterday. Thank you again so much.

@trudyhoffmann6405 7 месяцев назад

I made this in March for a holiday just like this. We taste tested and OH MY GOOD! I was going to gift it, but we may keep for ourselves and make a double batch for next year. Thank you so much for the recipe.

@ryman9336 Год назад

I did a spiced cranberry orange cider with a touch of honey for the holidays and man it was amazing what a combo! Can’t wait to try this mead!

@drmike5507 Год назад

Cannot wait to try this!

@celestemetts7614 Год назад

Derica, I had started compiling a list of your scores in an excel spreadsheet. I only made back a year and a half so far but I can send it to you if you want. You guys are awesome btw.

@brianhartman1097 Год назад

I completely expected Brian to do a very enthusiastic trbos, so that response made me laugh.

@404nutfound Год назад

I finally did my coconut water wine, Just added the lime zest to it. It is DECEPTIVELY sweet and smooth for 14%. That coconut water adds such a smooth texture. I hope I dont leave the lime in too long.

@stanleygrover1685 Год назад

I like the glass! I will probably break mine but I like the clear picture!

@heartemisart700 Год назад

You two are a hoot! Another brew to explore!!

@gregbabin365 11 месяцев назад

Great video, anxious to try this one!

@PacesIII Год назад

I made a cranberry brew from fresh cranberries. Tart...sooo tart!

@rachellemazar7374 Год назад

Love Derica’s s’mores example

@stanleygrover1685 Год назад

Good water addition!

@MarkTheNewf Год назад

Nice job there, missus. Just did a plain cranberry and 2 things popped out: cranberry flavor came out lighter than expected and adding wine tannin took away from the sharpness. Watching what you all did lends me to think that I should not have made up the difference of volume with water and just used cranberry juice entirely. Good to know. This is why I come here. I ended up mixing 50/50 cranberry along with orange-spiced and it's friggin' great now. Cheers!

@brendandoliveira6911 Год назад

Love the role swap! Classic :-)

@alexcan669 Год назад

You guys are great as always don’t change cuz we love you!. I made a cranberry wine that was amazing. I need to try this recipe.

@trudyhoffmann6405 Год назад

I'm trying this one very soon!

@markaguilar8066 Год назад

HOW DID I MISS THIS VIDEO!? Love it guys. I find it fun when the roles are switched in the video's plots lol

@brianhartman1097 Год назад

Thanks so much for your videos, I recently finished my first ever cider (it was delicious). You guys make this easy for home brewers.

@nicholaspeets432 Год назад

Great new video! Thank you for the great and informative videos. Always great to watch and try your recipes.

@1972bcain Год назад

Man, I absolutely love you two on the number rating at end for this video and all the others as well. It is taken so seriously and yet campy at same time. It both drives me nuts when you do it and at same time makes me snort with laughter. Absolute sure sign of you guys being on point! Former St Pete resident here giving you a half smirk with an eye roll but two full thumbs up

@pepperman18 Год назад

i do a cranberry/pineapple mead that i love and have made it 6 to 8 times now ... i use ocean spray cran/pineapple

@rossk7927 Год назад

This would be a fun one to add a pinch of vitamin B2 to. It would give it almost a golden glow as B2 fluoresce.

@benjamencollier1777 Год назад

The elusive Corangeberry Mead

@ogm19881 Год назад

I totally love the star wars shirt.

@julietardos5044 Год назад

Cote des blanc is my favorite wine yeast. I've seen it go as high as 15.5%; however, I've found that if it stops anywhere after 12%, it's done and not stalled. Anyway, you were asking for recipes. Here is a recipe. Chocolate cherry wine 4 qt tart cherry juice (if sweet, use less sugar) 1/2 cup tea (or tannin of choice) juice of 1/2 lemon 2 tsp Fermaid O 2 lb sugar 8 oz cacao nibs, toasted a few minutes (optional step, but toasting brings out the flavor better) Cote des blanc yeast OG 1.114 When fermentation is complete, add 2 lb cherries, frozen and thawed* Sugar to taste Oak, if desired More cacao if desired, but I've found that the chocolate flavor can be muted until beverage is a month or two old and then pop right out, so maybe wait a bit. Variation: sub one qt of pomegranate juice *This is different from your experiment with adding fruit before or after. In that experiment, the fruits were always fermenting. Here, the cherries are added after fermentation is complete. The idea is to add more cherry flavor and not fermented cherry flavor.

@nicholasaugustin3861 Год назад

I just made my first concoction its a combination of your first mead and and the Tea wine.

@trippaturtle Год назад

I think you forgot about the orange blossom honey adding to it. Honestly probably why it tastes like underrippend orange

@Zu_Einfach 10 месяцев назад

I started a gallon of this mead two weeks ago and not even a week in with this yeast I saw the bubbles slow down significantly! I let it sit for another week to be sure started at a gravity of 1.102 and it came out with a gravity of 1.004! Ive racked it off and I’m gonna let it age until December, figured cranberry and orange is a decent holiday drink! Your guys’ recipes are the best and I hope you two get the recognition you deserve!

@CitySteadingBrews 10 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@KristijanDimovski Год назад

I'm looking forward to trying to make my first mead in a few months, your channel has been very useful, in that regard. Mead here in North Macedonia is pretty much impossible to find so I usually have friends bring some over from other countries, so who knows maybe if I perfect my mead making skills there is a small business opportunity with this wonderful hobby. Regardless, looking forward to making my own mead, thanks a lot to you guys for providing great guides.

@jassonford7269 Год назад

Hey, Bryan show more enthusiasm for The red bucket of sanitization 😂

@68RedDragonz 8 месяцев назад

Well bugger, wish I had watched this a couple months ago this would be perfect for xmas!

@stanleygrover1685 Год назад

Good tannin tip!😜

@shanebeasley8191 Год назад

Now you must do an aniseed and grapefruit cider/mead

@alligatorfred850 10 месяцев назад

I love the glass breaking sound effects

@hanslemmen9492 Год назад

I made your traditional mead recipe today, and I think I got some pith in with the zest. I'm gonna call 911 and turn myself in now.

@evanmackay4975 Год назад

I used cotes de blanc on my apricot wine; I have never seen a more rapid fermentation. The airlock was bubbling away like boiling water. It was really cool to watch and smelt strongly of apricot.

@firstalawal Год назад

Great video as usual, I liked the recipe I will try it soon. down some great enhancements ingredients: Fresh ginger about 1 inch and fresh turmeric about 1 inch Peel them and grate them, and put them in Mead bottle (1L) will enhance the taste and color and the smell too and the sweetness of honey will also appear stronger. Try them you will like it.

@fabiolindquist1555 Год назад

My cranberry mead went from purple to orange too. Next time I may use some hibiscus for color retention

@alexlarsen6413 Год назад

Those other ingredients in the juice such as apple and grapes are adding to the complexity too for sure. Anyhow this sounds amazing!! I want to make it right now but can't since I went on a brewing spree between September and November of last year and literally all of my carboys are full! 😂

@nicklashnilsson6056 Год назад

Go Derica!

@stevenweir7236 Год назад

I just put up a 6gal batch a couple days ago. SG 1.098

@GeneRitnour 10 месяцев назад

Running out right now to buy those ingredients! Thanks!

@CitySteadingBrews 10 месяцев назад

Lol, you're welcome!

@XD_cRiMeScEnE Месяц назад

Holy cow!! I found the video where she makes him say it!!! LOL Should've added the effect on his voice anyway. It'd been great.

@DickChowder Год назад

Thanks guys. I made this and it's absolutely awesome!!!

@xxx_madman_xxx5868 Год назад

beautiful Brian just beautiful ..love the excitement when announcing turbos !!!! ok i have fallen in love with bread yeast before i pitch the yeast to kick off fermintation i boil 1 teaspoon of yeast in about 6 oz water (give or take) let cool to room temp and add it with my actual bread yeast i notice its extra cloudy ..any idea how to clear it up a bit ..it ferments well tasts great but looks like american apple cider ! that clowdy

@osutuba Год назад

Derica, you should have got Kveik Voss and fermented it hot. The citrus esters it produces are awesome!

@larmiger Год назад

Really enjoyed this video, really liked all the calculations and math involved with all the detailed scenarios. I would have liked to see the math after you back sweetened things. I know its not all that important, however the math would have been complete and the information would have been great.. lol.. I really enjoy the you showing the patience needed in letting the brew finish a good wine/mead, something I still need to work on. Keep up the good work.

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

What math after sweetening? I believe we gave the final gravity after sweetening. That's all there is. The ABV is the same, as there was no more fermentation.

@larmiger Год назад

@@CitySteadingBrews If the volume of the brew changes then the abv drops. I know its not much and Its not worth the hassle of a few points. example SG was 1.102 FG 1.010 gives you 12.4 then you back sweetened to 1.032 and I guesstimate a starting volume of 128 oz and a additional honey volume of 6 oz maybe? so (Starting volume(128) * abv(12.4)) / Final Volume(164) = 11.8% that's the math according to Mr. google pants, but it would be painful to do this math each time you had to add additional sugars to the brew. I am kind of new at all this brew math stuff and could be completely wrong about everything. Again Great video keep up the good work!!!

@skeletonkeybindery3936 Год назад

Another great video highlighting great brews from off-the-shelf supplies. You talk about pasteurizing this particular one. I'm curious of your process since the video you have on the subject is pasteurizing in 12 oz bottles rather than a 1 gal. jug.

@Greymist21042069 Год назад

Great video guys! Just want to point out that late in the vid, y'all had said that the only orange in the recipe was the pith-LESS zest. My girl and I caught your mistake right away. Y'all used orange blossom honey to start the recipe. With the way it ended up tasting though, I think the wildflower honey backsweetening was the way to go. Keep up the great work you two!

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

Orange blossom honey doesn’t really taste much like orange really but you are right.

@ronweaver7089 Год назад

If I pasteurize my brew will it continue to age past that point?

@HolyPineCone Год назад

Yes. It will not ferment though, if you did it right.

@bsicc Год назад

I have an orange/cranberry in conditioning right now :)

@TheStraycat74 Год назад

1:41 much excitement, so enthusiasm. 10:40 if there is even the slightest bit of white, the mead will get... PITHED off 31:51 yes, we all know Derricka is a very sweet lady :) 32:23 Brian, I believe you are with in a year or three of my own age of 49... so yeah. not there in 1955

@jonellenwood6186 Год назад

Im a new viewer and i wondering about cooked peach juice mead i love your videos

@basicems24 Год назад

It's been 2 years and I'm still waiting for a new bochet.

@madusan1 Год назад

Hmmm... I'm wondering if Derica is going to add a touch of Cointreau to add a bit more orange flavour at tasting. Start with a few drops. We all know the power of Cointreau... wish we had "tasting-vision"!

@jeremy-ez6nd Год назад

I need a beer vid from you guys

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

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@trentwalters Год назад

Love your videos as always, I have never asked but I will now where do you get the note papers where you write on your carboys, I’ve been using big post it notes which are free but never have room

@destruxandexploze2552 8 дней назад

I just realized that most of the brews you have made that I wanted to replicate, have been done in the little big mouth bubbler. But I only have 20 - 1 gallon fermenters.

@CitySteadingBrews 8 дней назад

Can still do them, just aim for the same og we did.

@destruxandexploze2552 8 дней назад

@@CitySteadingBrews Awesome! I learn something new from your channel every day. Thank you for the quick reply!

@docautrisim885 Год назад

whole orange slices are called for in JOAM pith, fruit, seeds, peel and everything else. I’ve never noticed any “bitterness” from them.

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

I have when using the whole orange sometimes.

@GoranSvettlund Год назад

Which do you like better? amburana or french oak?!

@Jcewazhere 3 месяца назад

I like Simply brand cranberry juice. It's filtered water, cranberry juice, cane sugar (a lot), and 'natural flavors'. Not something calling itself cranberry while being half grape or similar.

@TheRscorp Год назад

I have made a lot of meads with Aronia berry which is a very astringent, bitter berry like cranberry. Not a single one EVER finished completely dry. And that was with Fermo O feedings and swirling to get rid of excess CO2 during fermentation. Yeast was not stressed a bit. Usually I'd mix the Aronia with cherry or blueberry , but they still would finish exactly at 1.010 every time, just like yours did. I had a friend tell me that happened to them with Elderberry. I can't prove it, but I'm guessing there is something in the deeply colored, astringent berries that for whatever reason prevents going fully dry. I recently made a tart cherry / grape mead and that finished dry so I'm guessing they had no effect when they were mixed with the Aronia.

@MobettaBlu Год назад

Brian thank you for the pic with the siphonless fermenter it was very nice Derica you as well love your channel

@caseybeckley4511 Год назад

Original Gravity started at 1.100, ended at 1.010. After adding honey to back sweeten it jumped up to 1.032. To figure out ABV from back sweetening, do you now need to do 1.100-1.032(135)? Thanks for all the hard work you do! Your videos have helped me enjoy this new hobby of mine and make some pretty good wine and mead. I especially appreciate the way you two partner together and play off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. This is the way.

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

Sweetening doesn't change ABV :)

@ronaldsabourin8835 Год назад

Brian needs to learn to do a gameshow announcer voice for The Red Bucket of Sanitization.

@kleverich2000 Год назад

If I'm trying to make a mead from a wine recipe or vise versa, how do I do that? How to I convert between cups of sugar and pounds of honey

@kevind7617 Год назад

You did ausome with TRBOS

@jaredray6869 11 месяцев назад

Would like to see a cranberry apple persimmon mead. May be good spiced.

@jarodlojeck5150 Год назад

A question. You say, and I agree, that bubbles in the airlock mean nothing. At least nothing productive. What about if you have positive pressure for more than a week, but no active bubbling? Does that mean that there is just enough pressure to keep the air lock showing positive pressure, but no activity to push it farther? I will admit there is a possibility that a bubble sneakes by when I'm not looking, but I have a brew that has been in primary for more than a month, should be done, but it's still showing positive pressure. All the liquid is on the exhaust side of the airlock, but is not actively moving. How would you handle this?

@Gmrgrl-mb5np 3 месяца назад

Just started this brew on Thursday in the 5 liter fermenter y’all recommended so I can have a proper gallon in the end and super excited to have this by thanksgiving/Christmas. If I wanted to spice it up, how much cinnamon/allspice/cloves would you recommend?

@CitySteadingBrews 3 месяца назад

I don't know really... t wasn't meant to be spiced.

@juliepurvis1438 Год назад

SMORE Mead!! Add it to the list! You said it!! 😂

@prplprince8730 Год назад

Best TRBOS cut away

@happy2wander1 Год назад

Cranberry can be finicky...had a pure cranberry juice mead stall at 1.060. Very sad. And btw.... vociferous....love it.

@Grandpa_RLP Год назад

Have you ever had problems pasteurizing mead with like solids forming or collecting at the bottom seemingly from the pasteurization?

@fladagergriffin6650 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for being the TEACHING channel! I have had great success so far but am stuck with this one. I started 9 days ago with a half-ish batch of this and an OG of 1.094. Fermentation never really got started beyond a few bubbles. After 7 days, gravity was 1.092 so I added some yeast hulls and degassed. 2 days later and still nothing. At what point should I try to add some more yeast? I started with a whole packet of 71b which I thought would do just fine. I did not pre-hydrate but had success with another packet from the same shipment earlier this year. I don’t have a ph meter so that’s not an option. Thanks!

@CitySteadingBrews 5 месяцев назад

Could be bad yeast, could be pH, could even be low temp.

@fladagergriffin6650 5 месяцев назад

Ok, thanks. I know temp is fine so will try with a pre hydrated yeast to make sure that’s not the issue.

@mattclose4202 Год назад

I love the videos you guys post. I bought stuff to make that dark cherry cider you guys made. I’ve been watching your videos trying to learn as much as I can. The only thing I’m still confused on is how you calculate the gravity of sugars and fruits. Is there any way you could make a video explaining how to figure out the gravity of things added.

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

We did this about 7 weeks ago: Sugars in Homebrew Mead, Wine and Cider - Gravity Measurements ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eSRgJCSRjwY.html

@mattclose4202 Год назад

@@CitySteadingBrews I’ll check that video out and thank you for the fast response.

@jimbojones9665 Год назад

I'm curious to see what a little oak would do to this.

@user-ol9lz8nj2g 11 месяцев назад

Hi I’ve been watching your videos and started making mead myself. I was looking for a recipe or video for a Cranberry Peach mead. My girlfriend likes Peach Scnopps with cranberry and orange juice. So I was looking to make something for her.

@CitySteadingBrews 11 месяцев назад

We have a peach mead in the works right now, and have used cranberry in a few meads recently.

@briancohen-doherty4392 Год назад

It seems like it would be an interesting experiment to use around an eighth of a teaspoon of salt in a mead that needs a bump and flavor without adding sweetness...

@julietardos5044 Год назад

I once added salt to a beer I didn't like. It did not taste better. At all. But that's beer.

@meadmaker4525 Год назад

Cool recipe. Quick question, though: Why not just add some orange juice to help boost the orange flavor even more? I've never messed with it myself, so maybe orange juice doesn't work or something, but figured I'd ask. Thanks for sharing this one with us!

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

No reason for more. It had plenty!

@meadmaker4525 Год назад

@@CitySteadingBrews - Fair enough. Thanks!

@sixstrings24 Год назад

you could add a i card link to the videos you say you have already done each time you say it

@jamesvatter5729 Год назад

"Yeast hulls smell like cheese...not good cheese." That look makes me wonder if you're making "Limberger mead!" LOL!

@eliasjohansen9768 8 месяцев назад

Swedish: julemust but just make it a alchoholic beer/soda, its made with same ingridiens as beer, but carbonated and a non alchoholic beverige in sweden very good

@antheaxe7340 Год назад

wormwood mead maybe???

@jamesj.williams7702 Год назад

Highly recommend another blueberry mead, but with much much higher blueberry amount. Comes out like a sweet red wine with a basic floral honey, pectic enzyme, and D47.

@coryclark7706 Год назад

yes ... need to be careful not to pith off some people ...

@adamflores4206 Год назад

Have you ever considered a pinch of salt to combat bitterness?

@CitySteadingBrews Год назад

Have not. I know people who have added salt to brews with mixed results.

@raykiii 4 месяца назад

Pardon my ignorance, why did you use an airlock if the brew was pasteurized? Was not the yeast killed in the pasteurizing process? Thank you in advance. I really enjoy your videos.

@CitySteadingBrews 4 месяца назад

It certainly does no harm, and on the off chance there was any gasses left or fermentation did somehow start again, we're safe.

@stuartdoig3418 10 месяцев назад

Your craisin brew was very highly rated, if you repeated this would you add craisins? I am going to make this, but I am wondering if I should add craisins and if so how much.

@CitySteadingBrews 10 месяцев назад

They're totally different recipes. I haven't researched to know how to alter it in that way.

@stuartdoig3418 10 месяцев назад

@@CitySteadingBrews how do you conduct your research for recipe making/mixing? Given both are cranberries and both made a great product, would there be a concern in mixing the two?

@BobGrimminger Год назад

I wonder how much of the 10 points of residual gravity come from the other dissolved compounds (such as the fruit acids giving the tartness).

@whilstingdog 5 месяцев назад

Just to make sure I am getting the ABV calculation right with you adding honey after the initial value is taken. You wouldn't use the new reading after the back sweeten because you pasteurize it meaning no new alcohol is made correct?

@CitySteadingBrews 5 месяцев назад

Yes. Adding honey after pasteurizing doesn't add to the abv. It could dilute slightly leading to a possible lowering of the alcohol content by a little depending on how much is added.