How to Make Mead at Home - EASY FULL Honey Wine Process

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Brew Your Own Mead - Make Honey Wine at Home - FULL Process
How to Make your First MEAD. Simple First Timer Mead Recipe. From Fermentation to inebriation, or start to drinking. Mead isn't so difficult to make as some might lead you to believe. It's really quite easy to make your first mead at home. This beginner mead recipe uses ingredients you can probably find at your local grocery store. Make sure you make mead with a good quality honey though, as the old saying "garbage in, garbage out", still applies.
While this is a beginner mead recipe, it's still one of my favorite meads, and I still make it, exactly like we do in this video, simple mead does not mean bad tasting mead. Sometimes, simpler is better. Can you alter this recipe? Of course. It's a guideline for making your first mead, but you can tailor it to suit your needs as you learn how it works. That said, we urge you strongly to follow it as closely as possible your first time or two making mead for yourself as there's a few concepts that are important to understand before branching out and experimenting.
Happy MEAD making!
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1/4 - 1/2 of an orange Zest (we used orange zest that we dehydrated)
1 teaspoon Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast: amzn.to/3uuJq12
2 ounces or 57 grams Raisins (make sure they are oil and preservative free, we used Sun-Maid and chopped them up): amzn.to/3J8cpf8
Water (we used filtered tap water that has the chlorine removed, you are looking to add enough until your mixture goes up to the shoulder of your fermenter)
Beginner Mead Tasting (My First Mead) ONE YEAR LATER!: • Beginner Mead Tasting ...
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@HolyPineCone 2 года назад

I have been brewing mead for a few years thanks to you guys. I guess I can sound a bit harsh in some of my comments but thats mostly because I'm not a native speaker. So today I'll try to sound a bit more positive 😁 you guys are great! Your philosophy that brewing should be uncomplicated and fun really helped me. No magic required. I just wanted to learn how to brew and be done with it but thanks to your way of doing things I keep coming back for more videos. You have really added value to my life with this skill set. I really appreciate it! Thanks!

@stilgar11235813 2 года назад

Years ago my brother and dad got into beer making and I wanted to try mead. So I used what ever yeast they had. I did just honey. Long and short of it after we bottled it we lost a one of them in the basement and it sat down there for some two and half years and it was better then any store bought I've tried.

@Bootyriphic

You guys are that cool aunt and uncle that bring homemade pastries and sautéed wild edible mushrooms to the potluck. Thanks for the videos I’m staring my mead today 🤙

@charleswells9682 2 года назад

I'll climb on this train. I made this recipe earlier last year. It was quite cloudy right up until it wasn't. Gave a bottle to my son who shared it with a buddy that is training to be a sommelier. His buddy could not get over the fact that it was made with 'mere bread yeast'. This really does finish up quite well - a bit sweet, but very nice regardless. Will be making again - this or a version with a Lalvin yeast (don't want to challenge the experts too much). Thanks for sharing.

@markhogan4730

I took the plunge with my first mead today. Followed your recipe, in principle anyway. I used chopped sultanas instead of raisins, about 1.25kg of honey (all I had), black tea, lemon peel, and Fermipan Brown Instant Bread Yeast. My fermentation vessel is a 6-litre water bottle with three litres of water put in the large jug and all the ingredients apart from the yeast placed into the bottle with the remaining 3 litres. A good shake of the bejesus followed by a two-minute to-be-sure-to-be-sure shake and then topped up the musk to about 5 litres, gave it a good swirl and added 1.5 teaspoons of the yeast and placed the lid on PawPaw style. Just checked it now a couple of hours later and it's bubbling away like a beauty. I blew her a kiss, said to her "Be lucky!" and I'll look in again over the weekend. The excess water I just put into an empty coke bottle. I like the ease of your method. Get it all together, chuck it all in except maybe 2 litres of water and the yeast, shake it all about, top up with water leaving a gap of say four fingers to the top, give another shake and add the yeast. Loosen the lid and you are done. What I am hoping is that it doesn't need carbonation. Thank you both for your no-nonsense approach to brewing. I like how Derica tries to hold you back Brian, but somehow you always get the nod. I look forward to tasting this in a month's time. Thanks again 🙏

@theastronomer5800 2 года назад

I had two people tell me recently that mead making is complicated. I just sent them to your channel :)

@franklawson152 2 года назад

Tried my first mead after aging it in a bottle for 2 1/2 months. OMG, better than I was hoping! It has hints of honey and citris in the aroma, and a smooth and subtle flavor of citris and raisins on the tongue. A shout out to City Steading! I scaled their 1 gallon recipe up to 5 gallons.

@randomthingsposted583

Last week I took a mason jar, and some condorde grapes i bought at a local farm, crushed them up and put them with an airlock. The berries already had some natural yeast on them so i let it ferment for a week. It tasted like vinegar but had an ok grape taste afterwards as long as i took small sips. Definitely gonna try this next time.

@hammelbreu2059 2 года назад

Not sure how many time I watched this series last year when you convinced me to try to homebrew mead ❤

@vzuahanthem3416

Started my first batch yesterday after watching this video. Exact same recipe. Just wanted to thank you guys for making this soo easy.

@johnshaw6702 2 года назад

I really like this format. It's nice to see you have worked out how to show the complete process in a pleasing manor in one video. I'll be making this again in the coming weeks.

@W8MJL 2 года назад

You know, I've been a homebrewer for years and I've made Beer, wine, cider and jack of all kinds, but I have never been able to make mead. Weird right? It's been years since I've tried to brew anything since our move but I found my notes the other day, after watching several of yours and "Man Made Mead" videos, I re-read my notes and I think I may have found my mistakes.....not enough honey in the batch (it was lower than a session) and no nutrient....it lost too much of it's antibacterial properties being too thin and nothing extra for the yeasties to stay healthy.

@eddavanleemputten9232 2 года назад

Of I’m not mistaken this is a re-issue of the first mead video you already posted, right? It’s a wonderful recipe and thank you for re-issuing it as a start-to-tasting video. Perfect for any beginner to get into mead making and it answers most of the beginner’s questions. It’s a nice incentive for someone to get their feet wet and into home brewing of meads, wines and ciders.

@Mitchasauraus 2 года назад

It's been since 25th of November 2021 since I've made my first 2 gallons of basic mead. Drank most of it with a buddy about 2 weeks ago and it was unlike anything I've ever drank before! Thanks for all of the great info you two marvelous wonders!

@hammelbreu2059 2 года назад

Again. I LOVE this series. The only one I can think of thats better than this one, is the one "When Brian was about to shove down the autosiphon into the cardboy and Derica shouted "NNNNoNoNo!""

@salh-salniated

Just started this today. I’m very excited 😊

@KenetorTV 21 день назад

First mead is now brewing and wanted to say thanks for the simple and easy to follow video!

@snipermama Год назад

I’m finally commenting, I just started my second batch of mead. I made my first one aug 2022. It turned out beautifully. I always come back to this video to get the order right. Thanks!!

@michellewilt4479 2 года назад

I've been getting into making home made wines and wanting to distill as well slowly over the past year or so, and you guys have been some of the people that have really helped me learn and go forward in this. Thank you.

@toddnaley9747 2 года назад

I just got to say I love the turbo bucket and every time she says it!!! it makes me smile so don't stop saying it please very important to make people smile.