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You wanted to know how to make Mead and I couldn't think of a better way to show you than to make all the meads from Skyrim. All of these recipes are in The Elder Scrolls Cookbook so if you are interested in making your own I strongly suggest you pick up a copy.
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00:00 - All of the Mead
00:52 - Quick Mead explainer
05:57 - Quick Mead making
10:24 - Testing for ABV
11:43 - Adding yeast
12:50 - Tasting Notes
14:45 - Now what?
15:30 - Honningbrew Mead
18:26 - Tasting Notes
22:39 - Blackbriar Mead
24:33 - Tasting Notes
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29:49 - Juniper Berry Mead
31:00 - Tasting Notes
34:31 - Hope you enjoyed this as much as we did
Elderscrolls quick mead (as it appears in the book):
(Scale as needed)
2 cups honey
6-8 cups spring water
One packet ale yeast (about .25 oz. or 8 ml.)
Pour honey into a clean 1/2 gallon glass jug. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil, then pour the boiling water over the honey in the jug and stir or swirl until the honey has dissolved. Add any additional ingredients, as listed for each recipe, then top off with the remaining 2 to 4 cups of cool water, leaving a few inches of space at the top. Cool to room temp and then add the yeast. Put a brewing airlock in the top of the jug and set in a moderately warm place to begin fermenting.
Let sit until desired ABV is reached.
Honningbrew Mead:
1 red apple
1 inch of fresh ginger
1 tablespoon culinary lavender
Add quick mead
Wait 1-3 weeks, tasting regularly until you have your desired result
Blackbriar Mead:
1-2 tablespoons of dried rose hips
.5 tsp ground clove
1 whole cinnamon stick broken up
6 oz. or 180 ml. crushed blackberries
Pinch of salt
Add quick mead
Wait 1-3 weeks, tasting regularly until you have your desired result
Juniper Berry Mead:
2 tablespoons crushed juniper
2 tsp. dried yarrow
1 tablespoon dried hibiscus
Add quick mead
Wait 1-3 weeks, tasting regularly until you have your desired result
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@howtodrink Год назад

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@Goobagoo Год назад

Dude I was looking up a recipe for my dnd campaign and you just posted the exact recipe. I owe you bro fr

@michaelalden5119 Год назад

Give us a HTD on making beer that would be awesome !

@davidmathieson8661 Год назад

There is a company who makes Skooma themed absinthe...definitely need to see that on the show

@imightbebiased9311 Год назад

I used to be a brewer until I took an arrowroot to the mead.

@sugarp1e174 Год назад

I do! Do the rest of the drinks next time! XD

@MTG_Scribe Год назад

"You're kidding yourself if you think you have data. All you have is noise." is an all-time HTD quote.

@nw1317 Год назад

^^^this. That quote was something I wish I could impress on SOOOO many people

@chrisschoenthal3725 Год назад

100% agree

@catnerdadrian7601 Год назад

Cyberpunk Greg after destroying a bunch of servers that were collecting personal data

@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH Год назад

I used to work at a brewery/meadery/winery/distillery, and we used to be suuuuuper specific with everything but that was commercial and whatnot. Then when home brewing that kind of went waaaaay down😂

@prisoner6266 Год назад

First truth of engineering, that. Wish so many more people knew about that.

@Emberheart_ Год назад

Blackbriar mead, in a cut quest that's still in the game files, had salt as a secret ingredient! The purpose was supposedly that the customer drank the mead, unknowingly got more thirsty and drank more mead until being so drunk they'd not notice their thirst. It was all some sneaky way for the criminal Blackbriar family to sell more mead.

@TheMaritimeHorror Год назад

I always imagine that blackbriar mead must not taste great. Simply because I totally believe the Blackbriars would cut it with fillers to just get more volume out of brews.

@nathanwood3860 Год назад

Quantity over quality just like McDonald's lol

@firestorm165 Год назад

This does not surprise me

@soap9277 Год назад

Ah, the old speakeasy method

@tfordham13 Год назад

And the blue one

@fcon2123 Год назад

As someone who's made mead several times, I can tell you that they taste best after being aged a year. Yes, they're drinkable after 3-4 months, but I beg you to let them sit just a bit longer. It's unreal how much the taste refines and improves. Also, use a wine yeast - Lalvin 71b is my favorite. It can take the ABV up like 14% if the conditions are right! Ale yeasts won't really take it beyond 6-7%. Once made a blueberry mead that was delicious AND gave you a noticeable buzz after just 1 glass.

@kyleunderwood1789 Год назад

The exception to this is short mead/hydromels, though that's obviously not what's being made here. There is some evidence that historic meads were brewed to a lower ABV and were served younger with some carbonation. Modern meads are made with carefully selected yeast strains and better sanitation/techniques, so we can brew reliably stronger meads and age them without ill effect.

@Pseud0nymTXT Год назад

do you also back sweeten the mead?

@kyleunderwood1789 Год назад

@@Pseud0nymTXT A lot of people backsweeten to taste, though I prefer a drier finish on most of mine. First, if you're bottling and carbonating your mead, you need to make sure to use a bottle that can handle the pressure. Beer bottles are generally fine, but you need to be more selective if you use wine bottles. Champagne bottles use thicker glass and more secure corks when compared to a bordeaux bottle. If you have any yeast left in the mead, it will try to ferment any residual sugar. The expected ABV of a yeast is a guideline, but they will routinely outperform if given half a chance. Leaving a mead until it is not actively fermenting is not enough - the yeast is merely hibernating until you feed it again. To backsweeten safely and avoid broken bottles/cleaning your ceiling there are a few proven methods. 1) You can sweeten at the table when you serve the mead. 2) You can add unfermentable sugars (e.g., lactose or xylitol) though you should keep in mind that these can have off flavors and/or cause adverse effects in some people. 3) You can stabilize the mead with K-meta and K-sorbate and add whatever sweetener you want afterwards. 4) You could filter the mead, but filtration is prohibitively expensive.

@derricksmith6573 Год назад

I fast age my meads by carbonating in corny kegs. Bubble co2 through the mead for even an hour and the fusels get bubbled out. I do this when I mess up and get low on mead. I also age in corny kegs.

@fcon2123 Год назад

@@Pseud0nymTXT Yep, I'll back sweeten if needed.

@eatdoomsday Год назад

I noticed a misstake, in game the bees at goldenglow have a lot of mountain flowers to make honey from, but the ones around honningbrew meadery would have a lot more lavander and tundra cotton to make it, this would make a big difference in taste. Honey isn't 'just honey'

@eerreerr497 Год назад

I see where ya comin from, but i dont think he remembers much from the game sadly

@orygarmy8560 Год назад

Golden glow never made mead they only produced honey and supplied honningbrew and blackbriar so the honey is the same

@eerreerr497 Год назад

@@orygarmy8560 yee 💕 thats what doomsday was sayin too We all agree goldenglow produces honey Doom was just mentioning that the honey the bees do produce in golden; they harvest from lavender flowers, mountain, ect 😄 Theres sooooooo many different kinds of honey irl! Hundreds! So just some overall honey probably wont BEE as special as bees that were in field's and field's of wildflowers💕 Anyway, SKYRIM FOR THE W!!!!! Hello fello dovahs if youre reading this! And fk Ancano!

@MorbidAnimosity Год назад

Yknow like - in general never really thought about the fact that would impact mead, different honey from different flowers. Seems obvious in retrospect but 😅 (seriously anyone who hasnt, try some local different varieties of honey at some point)

@LordAzathoth Год назад

Speaking from 5 years of brewing mead: I have yet to make 2 batches of mead with different honeys that noticeably tasted different. Granted, i make batches at 13+%ABV with Lavlin EC 1118(champagne yeast) and KV 1116 With my method, the flower nectar profiles from the honey get lost in fermentation. I would like to discover how to bring out those different flower nectar profiles however. I feel like I would need to use bread or ale yeast to preserve those profiles.

@Funct Год назад

I'm obsessed with Greg discussing the "cardamom" so extensively that it just could not be edited around. I guffawed every time the captions read him.

@perhapsyes2493 Год назад

Edit- was wrong; It's not so weird, a big part of Europe calls it that. Kardemom (NL), Kardamom (DE), Cardamome (FR), Cardamomo (PT)

@DexterBelgium Год назад

@@perhapsyes2493 Kardemom is not the same as "kruidnagel" (nl) (cloves). It is close enough one could stand in for the other in a pinch, but they're not the same, and we Europeans wouldn't call cloves cardemom if we can help it 😉

@perhapsyes2493 Год назад

@@DexterBelgium Oh wait, he was actually referring to cloves? Then I completely missed the context in the first comment, hah. Will probably delete cause it's just wrong. :) Was mostly just listening to the episode so I guessed it was because he was referring it to it in a weird way or something, like saying "Aluminum" somewhere in Europe.

@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH Год назад

I'm laughing my ass off

@gormster Год назад

@@perhapsyes2493 oh he is saying it weird, he’s just _also_ wrong

@Swordandsteel Год назад

As someone who has over 2600 hours in Skyrim, and makes mead on the side. I’ve never clicked on a video faster

@abcdefghijk123456100 Год назад

Only 2600 hours?

@The_1n_only Год назад

Brooo same !

@shuttlevfx1519 Год назад

@abcdefghijk123456100 this ain't a competition 😂

@Snakekitty94 Год назад

I also made mead, oh boy it gets sour quick. I let it age for like 6 months and oof dah don't do that.

@fordcapri6288 Год назад

Were you disappointed? Strange not to rack a mead, and drink it with the dead yeast (lees) in it

@ScaryMeadow Год назад

8:48 the little ʰᵒⁿᵉʸ got me. From my research (as a Norwegian, but not historian), any of the following would be historically appropriate to add to your mead, as we know vikings had access to them: Hops (very common), cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom, blue*, elder, rasp, cloud, straw, goose and lingon berries, juniper and cherry, apples (another common one), yarrow, mint and nutmeg. *keep in mind that Norwegian blueberries come from a different plant than what you usually think of as blueberries in America

@artonion420 Год назад

I think Americans call our blueberries billberries!

@ScaryMeadow Год назад

@@artonion420 Cheers!

@locoben400 Год назад

What's cloud?

@That-Dude Год назад

@@locoben400 We don't really have cloud berries here in the US because they aren't widely cultivated. If you live in a northern state you could potentially find them growing wild in a mountainous area.

@ScaryMeadow Год назад

@@locoben400 Cloudberry/nordic berry (rubus chamaemorus) or multe in Norwegian. People love picking them in the wild as a hobby, and it's seen as a thoughtful gift to share your spoils with friends and relatives.

@Nverinder716 Год назад

Made my first mead because of Skyrim, and made the Juniper infused batch from Helgen as well. Turned out hot as dragon’s breath, almost 19%ABV. I have one bottle left from the original batch and I believe it’ll be 10 years old this year!!

@starlight4649 11 месяцев назад

I started brewing when I was 19. I got a little crazy with the yeast. Apparently the wine yeast I got was a beast that could occasionally get to 22%, and I was a heavy sugar pour Made an apple country wine that I drank on my 21st. Had to take it like shots it was so strong, even after aging for like a year at that point. Ended up pouring it back into the jug, adding more apple juice and 2 shots of fireball to the gallon until it was a gallon and a half, finally made it drinkable in regular portions.

@futuregenesis97 8 месяцев назад

Can I have it?

@HOSER922 Год назад

The mead quest was part of the Thieves' Guild line. Maven Black-Briar, who is basically a mob boss, wants you to sabotage her competitor, Honningbrew, so she can enact a hostile takeover. You can't really choose a side without just... not continuing the quest line, but the guy who runs Honningbrew has basically enslaved his only employee, so they try to make you feel better about ending his career and getting him thrown in prison that way. Edit: As someone in the comments eluded to, there is also an insane wizard secretly living in a cave underneath the Honningbrew Meadery who is planning on destroying Whiterun with an army of mutated skeevers who you have to deal with during the sabotage.

@morrigankasa570 Год назад

I have never done the Thieves Guild Questline in my countless playthroughs of Skyrim. I absolutely refuse to ever do it!

@JarlAmbition Год назад

@@morrigankasa570 you’re missing one of the best quest lines in the game

@nocturneraider Год назад

Let's not forget the skeever issue also

@morrigankasa570 Год назад

@@JarlAmbition Not to me, same for Oblivion. I don't like Pickpocketing or Thievery things!

@Janoha17 Год назад

Though with the power of mods, it is possible to stick it to Maven and keep Honningbrew in business.

@grammar_antifa Год назад

A few notes from someone who's made mead before and researched it a lot: Normally (in modern times) you wouldn't ferment in a barrel. You ferment in glass carboys or plastic buckets and optionally age in or with some wood. It's just way more convenient. These barrels are a novelty I wouldn't ever bother with. We usually use wine yeasts, though kveik isn't a bad choice especially if you don't want to deal with trying to keep its temperature in a specific range (the kveik may have contributed to the citrusy notes Greg got). We also normally add some additional nutrients for the yeast. Honey doesn't contain much nitrogen and if the yeast don't have enough you can get off flavors. Lastly, it tends to get way better with age. Home brewing and mead and wine making is a deep rabbit hole. You can make so many things that aren't really available commercially.

@saddletramp1979 Год назад

I think they were trying to copy the old ways, who know how they really did it.

@GreenWitch1 Год назад

You are correct! Those barrels are silly. We generally use wood chips or spirals in secondary. If anyone is interested in learning more about mead making head on over to Man Made Mead. He’s approaching 300 meads.

@dkrol997 Год назад

Sooo when you gonna start making videos so we can follow along 😂

@GreenWitch1 Год назад

@@dkrol997 Plenty of content on RU-vid on this subject!

@Amartin-mu6oj Год назад

Tbf, I'm sure he's he's perfectly aware of this. This is a video about recreating skyrim drinks, not demonstrating the modern methods used for making mead. They probably used barrels in skyrim.

@ultimateninjaboi Год назад

As someone whos been making mead/cider for a little bit now, its actually really nice to see the not-so-glamorous beginnings here. I think everyone whos ever tried their hands at homebrewing has fucked something up, or had some kind of problem. So its really nice to see the same happening here, especially for the people who might be wanting to start, so they wont get discouraged if its not seamless for them right away.

@dylanlaughlin6715 Год назад

Could not agree more. My first batchs of cider and mead were complete disasters, with slight improvements every batch. I've been home brewing for about 18 months now, and I am just starting to see the fruits of my efforts.

@7thBatallion Год назад

My first batch got forgotten for a year. It was…strong. Like grain alcohol strong.

@sgtstr3am785 10 месяцев назад

My first batch of a pear "wine"... Yikes is enough. Lessons learned 😂

@skylarkeighley2369 10 месяцев назад

It's a true art that takes years to perfect

@xJadeWolfxx 5 месяцев назад

A friend and I made mead for my 21st birthday (as in we started before 21 happened and drank on 21) and I think we ended up with something closer to moonshine, the shit was so strong and very cough syrupy. I'm tempted to try again 11 years later now but I'm running out of space in my house for these kinds of projects lmao.

@skinnyjeanis7177 Год назад

I'd love to see your interpretations of the beers from Deep Rock Galactic. They have a pretty wide range of stuff.

@n0isyturtle Год назад

I'd love to see an episode focusing on uncommon/weird bottles that are only used in a handful of drinks, and seeing if you could expand the use of them.

@sammulhall Год назад

The Black-Briars are pretty explicitly not the good guys. However, we do work with them in the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood quest-lines. The competition between the two Brewers you were thinking of was a Thieves Guild quest in which you poison a batch of Honningbrew mead so that the meadery closes and the Black-Briars can open another branch next to Whiterun.

@hambor12 11 месяцев назад

You basically make Honningbrew Meadery fail a government health inspection through poisoning a visiting city guard captain to have the owner arrested and replaced with someone in the pocket of their direct competitor Granted had they hired someone legit to actually inspect the place they would've been shut down on account of rats and also a decrepit hobo commanding said rats right by the stills and cold storage

@paladonis Год назад

The macaroni stick sorta makes sense as I have read stories about how there were stir sticks that were handed down from father to son to make mead. Since Vikings, and pretty much all cultures, had no idea what Yeast was, they learned what plants, fruits, flowers, etc would cause that fermentation. Hence the neat thing about Juniper berries. They can appear with a white coating, which is sort of considered to be wild yeast. Hence why you might hear the mention of Juniper berry and mead mentioned together often. Fun episode as always! Love to see more stuff like this!

@Turkeysammich3000 Год назад

I made “mead” once, with a beer making kit I got one Christmas, instead of the included stuff in the kit, I used something called Michele’s Honey Creme syrup, and after 6 months, what it made was the best tasting drink ever.

@robertakridge9779 Год назад

Greg the barrel is for secondary ferment. You make the Mead in a primary allow it to ferment, then siphon the Mead off of the settlement on the bottom then transfer it to the barrel. It will be clearer and probably taste alot better. You basic drank Mead with all the settlements mixed back in.

@m_6866 Год назад

When I saw a lack of 5 gallon buckets, I knew he was going to drink the mud (Lees). How it came out as a positive review makes me think he was hiding the bad taste. My friends that got really into mead making let me try their mud/fruit mix leftover AFTER it settled a little (didn't really help) and it is not something someone should enjoy and is definitely not a representation of what the finished product could be. If done with experience, Lees can be nutty in wine, but if its just typical mead yeast then its pretty bad considering how the mead could/should taste.

@AlbeeSoaring Год назад

Bingo. I was going to say the same thing. They were drinking off the yeast cake from that barrel..lol

@robertakridge9779 Год назад

@@AlbeeSoaring for sure I was smacking my forehead! I did the same thing my first time. But putting in that extra effort really makes a difference.

@robertakridge9779 Год назад

@M _ definitely. It's not a big deal if you leave the Lee's in for a short period of time. But after awhile the Lee's will turn your mead. But over the years I have made mead I learned taking all the steps just makes your mead better.

@MileHighGrowler Год назад

Definitely my initial thought, too, as a long-time beer brewer. It'll clear up eventually, but moving the barrel a lot it was surely mixed in pretty well with the mead at that point. Secondary always (of course I got lazy over the years and just made my kegs the secondary, but the point still stands).

@MrFlam1ng Год назад

The fallout cookbook has a lot of cocktail recipes and nuka cola recipes. They would be cool to make for an episode.

@nathanbrisebois8756 Год назад

He already has an episode on nuka cola variants, check it out

@MrBlasz Год назад

Yeah and he made sasperial, not sure how to spell that, root beer from fallout as well

@ryanahr2267 Год назад

...Fallout cookbook? How did I not know this existed? Shit, I'm off to Google.

@KassFireborn Год назад

I feel obligated to cross-pollinate here and mention MisoHungrie, who's kinda made reviewing tie-in cookbooks his Thing. The Fallout one is by all accounts pretty solid. ETA: I misspelled his name. Shame on me, shame on my cow.

@hobbitguy1420 Год назад

Safety note: If you backsweeten before bottling for storage, you may want to pasteurize your brews to make sure your bottles don't explode on the shelf!

@Sardit Год назад

if you don't pasteurise, you'll be adding carbondioxide to your mead, and it will turn fizzy like a beer, or if you add enough sugar etc. potentially blow your bottles

@hunterwallace9551 8 месяцев назад

You can also add bentonite clay or a stabilizer to kill the yeast so you can backsweeten safley

@marissashea5103 Год назад

I appreciate so much that he shook and rinsed rhe rest of the honey. I HATTTTEE when cooking shows don't scrape their bowls when they pour lmao it was like soothing my brain so see him use every drop of honey

@Kanola_ Год назад

There's also a Honningbrew recipe you can find in game that's basically the same recipe as the quick mead but with cinnamon sticks and unsweetened Apple Juice instead of water and it's also quite good. It tastes a lot like an alcoholic version of American "apple cider" especially when warmed up. (Not to be confused with hard cider)

@gormster Год назад

fun fact: A mead made with apple juice instead of water is called a cyser, and a mead made with wort (unfermented beer) instead of water is called a braggot.

@coopernichols4275 Год назад

Your advice to backsweeten the mead has a caveat: the addition of new sugar will kick fermentation back into gear, so if the mead is backsweetened and then bottled/kegged/stored airtight however else, you are at high risk of causing an explosion. A small addition of sugar is called bottle conditioning when it is used to cause enough fermentation to carbonate the drink. This is how almost all homebrewers and even some commercial breweries bottle carbonate. Backsweetening an airtight product that still has viable yeast is NEVER advised, and exploding bottles can cause huge messes, not to mention injury.

@Patrick-it8nk Год назад

I had done this, inadvertently learning what "step feeding" was, and ended up with an unintentionally fairly high alcohol apple cyser 🤣It was delicious, but I had to make sure to warn folk before they had any.

@lazarabach4264 Год назад

question because i want to get into mead making, but would adding potassium sorbate before backsweetening stop the fermentation process and eliminate the explosion situation?

@wea69420 Год назад

@@lazarabach4264 you could just heat it up gently to kill off the yeast. I dunno about the potassium sorbate method, but "cooking" your product is a very common way of stopping fermentation for sweet drinks.

@SynchronizorVideos Год назад

@@lazarabach4264If you’re trying to make higher-proof stuff, another easy way to kill off yeast is to simply add more alcohol. Adding a neutral high-alcohol spirit (Everclear works great since it’s basically straight ethanol) and bringing the ABV up into the high teens will generally kill off all the little critters (exact threshold depends on the yeast you’re using), and then you can add/retain sugar without worrying about further fermentation. This is how port wine is made.

@KillerGween Год назад

A HTD series where you go into different alcohol making methods would be interesting! Maybe make cocktails and recipes using the booze you make, see how they compare to one's made with commercially available alcohol

@drunkenhobo64 Год назад

25:19 I immediately stopped what I was doing and yelled "NO WAIT!" and went back to check. @How To Drink actually just ate rose hips. PSA to everyone else, don't eat whole rose hips. There's little hairs inside the fruit that will irritate your bowels as they pass through.

@Garry646 8 месяцев назад

My family loves rosehip tea, but I always felt the irritation in my mouth so much that I couldn't enjoy the taste

@sasavj14 Год назад

Not sure if someone else has mentioned but rosehips are essentially the fruiting body's of roses. They may taste similar to the flowers but they are a different thing with a distinct taste! I highly recommend messing about with homemade rosehip cordials/syrups to get a better idea of the flavour because its amazing!

@nomorenames7323 Год назад

I’m so proud of you Greg. Mead is one of the most magical things you can make. The relative ease compared to beer or wine is amazing, and it ages so beautifully. P.S. I would LOVE to see you make beer.

@stevenford7357 10 месяцев назад

The quick mead goes really well with the Mud crab dip recipe. Tbf there's a lot of good recipes in that book.

@andrewmartinez1514 Год назад

If you continue to homebrew, I recommend waiting for your sample to cool down before taking the specific gravity measurement. Or atleast record the temp for more accurate results. You have all the equipment to get fairly clean mead, you just gotta rack it atleast once after primary. You can leave everything in primary when it comes to beer but because wines take longer to age you gotta rack em off the sediment for a cleaner flavor profile

@HandsWithLegs Год назад

I would absolutely love an episode on cider making! One of my childhood favorite holiday drinks is a soft cider where you simmer it with cinnamon and an orange stuck full of cloves, and it would be really interesting to see how Greg approaches that as a hard cider

@RunFanatic Год назад

He'd really love the cardamom notes in it.

@cam4636 Год назад

I'd love seeing a "types of cider" episode in the future, like apple, cherry, peach...something wild...

@seantron5687 Год назад

Apple jack!!

@ShroomSnip3r Год назад

Pear wine!? Rustic pear wine!?!

@Max77Prime Год назад

Pls no we dont wand that pseudogood stuff

@inserttitlehere9713 Год назад

@@Max77Prime Cry a river.

@MattWinkler1 Год назад

I heartily recommend trying to make a bochet if you're interested in having another go at it! Essentially you caramelize the honey in a big pot for a couple hours (making your house smell delicious) before turning it into mead, has a darker, more complex, toffee sort of flavor, and it's still probably easier to make than any beer. Skål!

@ThallanarRabidtooth Год назад

I don't know anything about making mead, I haven't even tried it myself IRL. But, I do know a LOT about Skyrim. The quest you were talking about in the video is part of the Thieves Guild questline. You team up with Maven Black-Briar (owner of Black-Briar Meadery) to put a competing meadery out of business (Honningbrew Meadery, owned by Sabjorn). To achieve this, you are to show up as a pest exterminator to remove Skeevers (Giant rats basically) from the meadery's basement and the tunnels they've created underneath. These tunnels lead to the boilery house where the mead is made. The clever part is that the owner of Honningbrew Meadery gives you the rat poison to exterminate the pests, in addition to dumping the poison into one of the brewing vats. The captain of the guard shows up to try a tasting of Honningbrew Mead and is poisoned as a result, which results in Sabjorn being arrested, and his assistant (whom is secretly aligned with Black-Briar Meadery) takes ownership, effectively putting Black-Briar Meadery's main competitor both out of business, and gaining Maven a new store to increase profits. Also, Skyrim is home to a lot of different landscapes and climates. It's not all just snowy wasteland. There's marshes, mountains, forests and plains. Each main city, and even their smaller villages and towns will have different ways of making mead and different ingredients that are available. Honningbrew uses lavender because there's a lot of lavender naturally growing in the area. Black-Briar does not use lavender because none grows in the area where it is produced. Even towns in the same region will have different tasting meads due to how the craft is taught, mostly from father to son, and so on. Recipes were likely rarely ever written down, and measurements for the ingredients were done by hand or by eye instead of using dedicated measuring tools. Sorry for the giant essay, but I thought I'd just mention those two things because I don't see anyone else here talking about it.

@Ramonatho Год назад

I would love to see some beer brewing episodes. I know there's a lot out there about brewing already but I would love to see some absolutely crazy beer ideas come to life, like a mojito beer or an aperol spritz beer.

@coopernichols4275 Год назад

Genus Brewing does really interesting (sometimes over the top) beer recipes. They're a commercial brewery/homebrew shop and AFAIK they usually serve the weird stuff they make in videos.

@eosborne6495 Год назад

Awesome! I have my second batch of mead aging now. One thing you should try next time is brewing in a simple plastic or glass container for the first few weeks and THEN siphoning to an aging vessel. That gets the mead off the dead yeast and tames some of the funk and reduces the cloudiness. The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm is a good resource. Very excited for more HTD home brewing content!

@chubbst.7407 Год назад

I loved Cornholio. I remember visiting the Alamo when I was like 17. My grandparents are from Mexico/Texas so they speak Spanish. During the visit I was just repeating lines from Beavis. I swore he said "tienes tus papeles" in one episodes. I don't speak Spanish but I said that and made my grandma and grandpa laugh. Grandma asks, "do you know what that means?" Me: "no...?" Grandma: "you asked if I have my papers. Be careful who you say that around!". We all died laughing for while but I stopped repeating that line for the duration of our visit in Texas haha

@EnderDBD Год назад

I'm 19, not even old enough to drink, yet it's so fun to watch this channel l, idk why

@agentmanitoba0188 Год назад

I picked up the cookbook a few years ago and fell in love with making mead because of it. recently tried a year aged blackbriar and definitely suggest halving the clove. Juniper was by far my family and I's favorite!

@nightstar6179 Год назад

I have that book and the fallout one. They are surprisingly solid recipes

@jaycraw6978 Год назад

@@nightstar6179 the fallout has some good homestyle American recipes. My family uses it constantly

@jasonruka1665 Год назад

Nice! I had no idea either book existed… definitely going to get it

@R.J._Lewis Год назад

I'd love to see you make beers and wines occasionally. I think it would have to be something interesting though, like an apricot wine or cranberry wine, or a heather and gorse beer. Anything that would add to the knowledge of beer and wine without being a repeat that's been done thousands of times.

@RagandBoneMeadery Год назад

Filming the mead making process is a lot of work and waiting, very commendable! Long time fan of the channel, this was great fun to watch as mead makers. Yeast selection is definitely the most variable and can change a recipe completely. Thanks for spreading the word about mead!

@Timberpelt Год назад

This is a fantastic video. I love the high production quality, the down to earth host, and the crew getting in on the action too. This is a great show, and man... I've been playing skyrim again and once again. I've got a hankering for mead. Gotta try this out sometime! Thank you for the fantastic content! You've earned a sub!

@AuronJ Год назад

Love this episode, Mead is really easy to make and very good. One thing to remember is that if your mead tastes really harsh after fermentation don't worry it will mellow out drastically in the bottle as it ages. Many mead makers don't touch their mead until it has been in the bottle for 6 months or a year. Also any mead you have had that is sweet is probably backsweetened. You could add extra honey on the front end, but its easier and more exact to add it after fermentation is done. Last thing is to not worry too much about your fermentation, mead tends to be pretty forgiving about most things and is pretty hard to mess up.

@JK-ig6sk Год назад

"How thick is my ginger!?" This episode is for the ages, Greg. ALL TIME GREAT.

@theonlykinkyjesus 11 месяцев назад

I've been making mead for 14 years, and we actually use poland spring for brewing... it's not because it's special but rather it is consistent. Works great

@DreamsandReality00 Год назад

I was so excited to see this video and the HONEY! It's a local brand here and I love to see them succeeding! I was gifted the cookbook a few years ago and have always wanted to make the meads! Thanks for trying them for us!

@OdinOfficialEmcee Год назад

I would love to see you do more brewing! Please do that. Personally, I would like to see a farmhouse ale style and experimentation with different beer styles. It would also be cool to see you collaborate with the folks at Whiskey Tribe and try your hand at distilling. Maybe even a Rum?

@mikeshomestead9411 Год назад

Maybe follow some channels that know something about brewing.

@epsi9923 Год назад

@@mikeshomestead9411 It was asked up front in this episode when showing the new machine: "Would you like to see How To Drink do some brewing? Let me know!" Why be like this?

@mikeshomestead9411 Год назад

@@epsi9923 because I saw a lot of misinformation here. There are plenty of good home brew channels to follow.

@enormous6108 Год назад

100%. Yes, let's get a beer/cider/wine/mead making arc!

@Valdyr_Hrafn Год назад

the editing in this is absolutely amazing

@I_AmNomad 8 месяцев назад

The frickin cardimum/clove gag during the blackbriar tasting was hilarious. It never stopped being funny, I could pratically hear the outrage while editing. I can't wait to make my own mead!! I'd be interested in a HTD video on your own mead recipe, eventually

@marka4891 Год назад

If you'd like to try your hand at making mead, in addition to what Greg does here, there's a recipe that's been floating around on the internet for years called Joe's Ancient Orange Mead. You do need a couple of specialized things to ferment and bottle it, but it can be made entirely with ingredients from your grocery store. Though it makes a sweeter mead rather than a dry one. It's been a while since I've made any, but it was tasty enough that I after the first gallon-sized batch, I went back and made a five gallon batch. (Also, I've had a fermentation go wrong with a raspberry imperial stout after I bottled it. Let's just say that the term for that is 'bottle bombs' and let you imagine the horrific mess that made.)

@markstaud Год назад

University me doesn’t understand why I didn’t make this in my room in college. Seems relatively easy and accessible.

@marka4891 Год назад

@@markstaud Getting busted during room inspections maybe? ;D JAOM is actually really accessible and a nice intro into mead with flavors we tend to like, since plain mead has a flavor most of us aren't familiar with today. It's not bad, IMO, but like many alcoholic beverages you kinda have to train your palette to understand it.

@MikeDollar Год назад

Long time listener, first time caller, great episode, picked up the book! Excited to try some!

@DJKLnificent Год назад

I love how much this channel has grown over the years!

@andyrobinson6611 Год назад

I've been a home brewer since the mid 90's. Its a great hobby - part art, part science, and all kinds of room for experimentation. I've also done mead and cider. I heartily support an endeavors into zymurgy Greg!

@iondemon Год назад

Great to see mead being brought into the lime light again. To help with the funky flavor try using fermaid O for yeast nutrient and if you plan on back sweetening below the abv tolerance of your yeast use stabilizers first so the batch doesn’t referment. Food grade buckets will make life much easier before oaking too. Hope you continue your brewing adventures!

@carbonmosa8641 Год назад

I have been planning to start my own mead business for a few months now, and I see this in my RU-vid feed. I feel like this is a sign

@PapaBear_Gaming Год назад

First video I've watched in a while (I tend to binge the channel and then do other stuff and then come back and binge some more) and it was really enjoyable, I hope you folks keep expanding, it was really fun to watch!

@lvl20galathem Год назад

You can make vinegar out of just about any alcohol you ferment, including mead! Might not be on-brand for the channel, but it's really cool to try (and can have incredible results!)

@supermilena2846 Год назад

And then he can make shrubs with it!

@lvl20galathem Год назад

@@supermilena2846 I'd never heard of a shrub, but now I've got to try one, lol

@XDrSinusX Год назад

@@lvl20galathem if you going to make shrub make sure to use nice vinigar. if you use cheep stuff it will never taste great imo

@lvl20galathem Год назад

@@XDrSinusX I actually happened upon a place yesterday that sells really nice vinegars; I was thinking of picking up either a fig or raspberry vin cotto

@sinned_34 Год назад

I've been homebrewing beer for a decade now, and I've accidentally made vinegar a handful of times, thanks to failing at sanitizing or old equipment that needed replacing. Unfortunately, I never had need for 23L of vinegar, so it always winds up down the drain when that happens.

@garretengland-paine9125 Год назад

Hope jury duty doesn't keep you away too long. I'm excited about your fan cocktail recipes episode

@BlkHunterGatherer Год назад

My wife and I have been making wine, beer, and melomels for a few years so I didn’t learn much about the whole process. I’m still watching this from start to finish just because I enjoy watching your team and you explain things. Great video. I’d like to see how to drink tackle more fermented beverages. I think it’s safe to say there’s a healthy crossover between home craft mixologists and home brewers/winemakers/meadmakers. With your flair for incorporating pop culture into your drinks, there’s a lot of potential content to explore in pop culture themed fermented beverages. And it opens up doors for home fortified wine. I am absolutely confident that you could make some rocking home fortified wines, and I’m very interested in copying whatever you come up with.

@dad_moose 11 месяцев назад

that cookbook is legit too. Horker meatloaf came out SO good

@FhtagnCthulhu Год назад

Would love to see some recipes for Morrowind beer and liquor if you go more this direction. Mazte (Saltrice beer) Sujamma (No clue what sujamma is). And of course you can just do a ton of Skooma.

@sintanan469 Год назад

Mazte is basically sake. Saltrice is a salt-water rice-like grain containing caffeine. Basically 4loko rice wine. Flin is just Cyrodiil whiskey. Nothing fantasical here, just some top shelf whiskey. However, it IS a whiskey, which implies Nirn has barley... this is important for Sujamma. Sujamma, Shein, and Greef are all based on the comberry. Comberries are interesting as they are described as red berries that are bitter the warmer the climate they grow in is. That makes me think the closest we're getting to comberries is Muscadine grapes, which grow sweeter the colder the climate. That makes Shein a Muscadine grape wine. Greef is comberry brandy... so a Muscadine grape brandy. And Sujamma is the outlier. It is described in basically every game multiple times as "extremely potent", described in Morrowind as brewed using comberries and local grain, and _only_ _once_ in ESO said to be a mix of comberry, lemon, and barley. So my guess for Sujamma is a moonshine or grain whiskey flavored with Muscadine grapes and a hint of citrus.

@sintanan469 Год назад

Heck, if you really want to get crazy... Bosmer have jagga, which is fermented pig milk and honey. Or their rotmeth, which is alcohol made from the liquid from rancid meat purified with spices. They also have Sun Dusk Ale, which is rotmeth ale described as smelling like a "juicy steak marinated in a plum wine with coriander". On a lighter note the argonians of Black Marsh have ale, which is easy to do. And theilul, which is fermented cane sugar. They also have something based on Hist Sap, but other than a single passing reference in Oblivion this sap drink is never mentioned again. Hammerfell has rum. Heck, Skyrim has a fetch quest to steal some imported redguard rum. Skyrim also has Aalto wine made from jazbay grapes.. which look and are described as tasting a lot like sloe berries. So a sloe berry wine.

@elijahcubilo535 Год назад

I always thought that skooma was just liquid catnip becuase the kahjeet loved it, at least until the dawnguard dlc quest where you go into a skooma den that is run by vampires, then I started thinking skooma is some kind of drug like heroin

@lawngoat933 Год назад

I got this cookbook for Christmas and my fiancé and I were going to make the mead this weekend, this video’s timing was perfect for us thank you!

@Mojave_Courier Год назад

I would love seeing you go through the process of making beer!

@saber1epee0 Год назад

Very supportive of you getting into brewing!! I brew cider (from local farm juice buckets) and wine (from pre-balanced kits) and you'll never have a better $3 bottle of Red than your own. Haven't made beer since college but I will someday so I would join you on that journey too

@alexwhomst5679 Год назад

My dad and I tried making these a couple of years ago, and they turned out pretty great (give or take a batch or two)! Highly recommended (especially the Honningbrew mead, it's considered the best in-game for a reason) as something to quaff with others. Good stuff as always!

@haminacan Год назад

It's fantastic to see you try new things and you're going to learn so much about brewing and what's important in it. Looking forward to more brewing stuff (and less things like shaking a fermented product in open air, heating honey, etc. These things are not wrong, but generally frowned upon lol)! Very cool episode

@Waywren Год назад

oh this was fascinating! So many of my confused and distant memories of my dad trying to homebrew things make more sense now. I really would love to see some beermaking, and cidering.

@MyRageness Год назад

I love videos that take video game food and drinks into reality. I also have this cookbook, so it makes it nice to see someone test it before me!!

@scottallen6970 Год назад

I'm having an old fashioned, ( they way he makes it ) and laughing my head off, cause this was by far...the best episode. All the effects and such just made it soo entertaining

@GoddessMaeve Год назад

Yes! This makes me so happy! So glad you made this. I always make the lavender bread for events, and I really want to start making mead to go with it, so this is so helpful

@elricthebald870 Год назад

Please be careful with lavender. It works as a laxative. I made lavender mead some time ago and it gave me the runs.

@kupocannon Год назад

There are loads of brewtube channels that are pretty well dedicated to making mead. Mead is surprisingly simple to make. Be warned, once you start, you will be hooked on the process.

@Pendragon-dnd Год назад

Awesome video! I've been kicking around the idea of making mead for a while and I finally decided I'm going to after watching this

@lilldweeb Год назад

Been considering trying to make mead myself for a while so really enjoyed this video, looking forward to more like it 👍

@BoricuaTaco Год назад

This episode was awesome, great work as always Greg! I’d love to see HTD delve into the world of home brewing, there’s so much room for creativity and expression in that world and you’re already a creative guy so I’d love to see what you can do. As someone who has to be gluten free I would definitely love to see you do some ciders like you were talking about in this video. Either way, thanks for the content :)

@realbloodydoves Год назад

I would be SO excited for you to make ciders and meads more frequently, Greg! Please go wild with it!

@brady783 Год назад

It's always fun listening to people describe juniper flavor, when they may not have been around a juniper tree. Anyway, mead making is so much fun. Well done!

@silasmoros Год назад

For real looking forward to any brewing related stuff you do Greg, you and Clawhammer supply are my two favorite channels and do the two favorite subjects, brewing and mixology all while being just a bit geeky. Party on dude

@TinyNiord Год назад

I'm a big fan of dryer meads, they're delicious. It was a huge (very pleasant) surprise the first time I ran into one since up until that point I'd only ever really had really sweet Chaucer's spiced mead around the holidays.

@joshllorens4514 Год назад

Not only am I hyped you got around to mead, the editing was great on this episode

@zell189 Год назад

The brewing content is so good

@pfatful 8 месяцев назад

Definitely do a series on making beer. I also started making mead a few weeks ago and boy is it fun and I'd love to follow your process in making beer

@katrichardsonwriter Год назад

Nicely done! Our first adventure in mead-making was actually cyser: a hard cider made with honey, or mead made with apple juice, if you prefer. It packs a wollop and it usually self-carbonates from the excess fructose in the apple juice.

@conniptions3069 Год назад

I own the Elder Scrolls cookbook. It's really great with some recipes that really bang. Would recommend!!

@404nutfound Год назад

I dont know who you are but I will always follow anyone that makes mead and plays skyrim. Thank you !

@Luis-tl2jr Год назад

I LOVE YOU, i actually wanted this so bad. im making this 100%

@FunctionallyLiteratePerson Год назад

Not the "chai tea" 🥲 Lol @ the cardamon repeating, we all have our moments. I would love to see more brewing episodes - mead, beer, wine, et cetera! I've been wanting to get into brewing before I was even "of-age" to drink, so I'll definitely watch those episodes. Doesn't even have to be alcoholic, I know cola syrups and such have been made with just saucepans and whatever in the past, but there are so many drinks that can be made with the process, I'd be interested to see what you can come up with!

@cabe_bedlam Год назад

You touched on the various yeasts, one thing that surprised me was just how each type brought its own flavours. Bread yeast was the most interesting. Straight off ferment it tasted like jet fuel mixed with cat piss, but after 2 years of bottle ageing, it's one of my favourites.

@prettyfuldancingirl Год назад

I would love to see more fermentation and brewing videos! I did click because of Skyrim, but the fermentation process is truly very interesting, and I would love to see more exploration

@potato_cm Год назад

im so excited to see you brew more!!! you should just keep using it and make as much stuff as you can

@SlurmDude Год назад

Excited to see Greg making his own liquor, and I can't think of a better place to start

@Ferociouspanda00 Год назад

He probably won’t be making liquor as it’s illegal. He may make it, but almost definitely not on camera (unless of course he gets a license and all that, but I just don’t see him doing it)

@Ahkmedren Год назад

I'd really love to see you compare different at-home beer brewing kits. I've got one that has a fancy glass bottle and the mash and everythin' included and it seems more substantial than the ol' Mr. Beer. But I'd love to hear your thoughts on the different flavors or qualities with yer skilled buds. :) Always happy to see mead! Excellent stuff man

@Khamis1203 Год назад

I can not believe how far you've come since I first watched you lol, I'm so happy, you made this channel into something really special haha! Great video too!

@bridgettewade4167 Год назад

I think it would be super fun to see you make cider or beer!! Loved this video!

@stevenreynolds8393 Год назад

This is one of the more interesting videos I've watched. In general, not just your channel. I use to home brew beer back before the days of the NutriChef and other fancy gear. As microbrewery beer became available in the US it became easier just to buy the beer. I have looked into making mead and I think I even have a book somewhere. If I was a lot younger I would get one of those Nutrichefs and take it up as a hobby. As a retired Chemical Engineer we like this stuff. One tip I would add for cutting-up the fruit is to use a vegetable mandoline or chopper. I'm not a big fan of cutting things into tiny pieces with a knife.

@ketra1504 Год назад

Hello from a brand new Chemical Engineering thinking about taking up brewing as a hobby

@stevenreynolds8393 Год назад

@@ketra1504 It's an interesting hobby with a lot of resources: books, magazines (Zymurgy), conventions etc... with tips and recipes. I just had a large pot, a carboy, bottling equipment, and some gadgets such as airlocks, etc. Nowadays a lot of specialized equipment is available for a price. Of course if you really enjoy the hobby the equipment can be worth it for making things easier, with perhaps better results. The various ingredients are in general readily available and not that expensive. Stuff like malted barley and other grains, hops, yeast, etc.. One thing is that you end-up with a lot of beer, usually batches are about 5 gallons. As you brew good beer and ales your friends will probably be glad to help get rid of the beer. Perhaps with modern equipment you can make smaller batches. Anyway, have fun with the hobby if you take the plunge, and the mantra for the hobby is: "Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew".

@saber1epee0 Год назад

Hi fellow ChemEs! (30-something here) No shock that we're common in the hobby lol. I haven't made beer for a few years but have gotten back into brewing because my wife and I love cider so much and in my opinion it's a GREAT way to start brewing. Simple and rewarding if you like it and want to experiment with flavors like in this episode.

@GaldirEonai Год назад

The thing about using spring water is that in a lot of places tap water has gone through treatment to inhibit microbial growth. While that's generally a good thing for most uses of tap water, it's the exact opposite of what you want for fermentation :P.

@MezzoForte4 Год назад

Been replaying Skyrim recently and I love mead. Watching y'all mess around makes me want to make my own someday. 🍺

@Dovah_Slayer Год назад

Don't know how you ended up on my recommendations but I'm glad I stuck around

@EthicsinEthos Год назад

I am currently in the process of opening a meadery, I personally love the mead making venture. I would definitely watch more of this type of content, at least that is my vote!

@damonnin7699 10 месяцев назад

I believe you are to ferment in a different container then transfer to the park Barrel for the woods notes so that you don’t drink the spent yeast which I understand can impart odd flavors. Just a thought. Very entertaining video! I’ll be watching more