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Is it CHEAPER to Make Mead at Home? 

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How much does it cost to make mead? What gear do you need to get started? Let's talk about the real costs to get going in this hobby of mead making.
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@user-dp9ue1tt6q
@user-dp9ue1tt6q Год назад
I have started my mead journey using 5 liter of store bought water, and used its plastic bottle as a fermenter, and i did not sanytised it, because i've considered it steryle 😁. My sisters husband gave me a airlock for free. 1 liter of honey (approx. 3 pounds) costs around 10 bucks here in Belarus, but you can buy it for 6 bucks and even cheaper, if you buy a 10 liter bucket. Water was 1.5 dollars for 5.55 liters, and i bought a packet of lalvin d47 for 2 bucks. No nutrient, no yeast starters, no sanytisers, no hydrometers, no bottles. So i've spent something like 14 bucks to make my first 5 liters batch of mead! The process was very sketchy, no gravity readings, so i don't even know what my resulting abv was, but i assume it was something like 7-8% and i consider it a miracle without using a nutrient. But it turned out better, than store bought anyway! Now i have started using glass fermenters, hydrometers, sanytisation, yeast nutrients, flip top bottles, and it is not magic for me to have 12 or even 15% abv! And it is all thanks to your channel! Sorry for spelling mistakes, english is not my first language, greetings from Belarus!
@specUVdust
@specUVdust Год назад
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@LordMogatron
@LordMogatron Год назад
Not to mention you can wait to buy the bottling stuff until at least a few weeks after you begin brewing
@daigledj
@daigledj Год назад
Not to mention you can buy one of the wine kits that have most of what you need for even cheaper. Quick look showed $50 for most of your gear and even includes yeast, tannin, acid blend, etc.
@thornhedge9639
@thornhedge9639 Год назад
I'm in Germany, where beer often comes in swing top bottles. I buy my neighbors when he finishes drinking them for the price of the bottle return fee, and bonus, since he buys his beer by the case, I also get the handy case in the deal! Good info; thanks for posting this!
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Thanks for sharing!
@elricthebald870
@elricthebald870 Год назад
I did something similar with a local café. They sold beer in robust, black ceramic, swing top jugs. And when empty he dumped in the trash. I asked the cafe owner to safe me a dozen empty jars. And I gave him a full one in return. We both got a great deal out of it. I got a dozen jugs that otherwise would have cost me €3.- each. And he got a nice jug of mead.
@thornhedge9639
@thornhedge9639 Год назад
@@elricthebald870 Sweet!
@amazingralph2425
@amazingralph2425 Год назад
@@elricthebald870 awesome deal
@leckereGemuesesuppe
@leckereGemuesesuppe Год назад
@Thorn Hedge where are you getting your yeast from, my research provided only expensive offers. Thanks and happy brewing.
@SWGxCentral
@SWGxCentral Год назад
I almost bought everything on Amazon, but thankfully found a local brewery supply store. Got all equipment mentioned except a scale that I already owned for 130$. Even grabbed a recipe book within that cost. Y'all inspired me to finally make my first mead!
@Unassuming_Gay
@Unassuming_Gay Год назад
I got 6 1.2 gallon, thick glass fermenters, with caps and bubblers on Amazon for 22€ - perks of living in a place where house fermentation is still common !
@the_whiskeyshaman
@the_whiskeyshaman Год назад
So true, some people spend that in the bar one night. Or on a pair of shoes. And there’s something about making your own.
@Sean_XT
@Sean_XT Год назад
So far this and blacksmithing are the only worthwhile hobbies I have found that have that cheap of a starting cost for good equipment.
@darylbrander4851
@darylbrander4851 Год назад
A helpful borg of friends on the internet to help answer newbie questions!
@patricktaylor7021
@patricktaylor7021 Год назад
I go to one of my local wineries for all my bottles.they usually have "normal" bottles and smaller 375ml from events and tastings.they would rather they be recycled/reused then tossed in trash.i don't think I have ever purchased bottles.
@scottydoesntknow92
@scottydoesntknow92 Год назад
I'm making my first 5 gal soon and your channel and videos have helped me make total of 6 gallons and I've only put out 120$ in everything I needed to do it you and your wife are wonderful and I hope my peach cobbler mead comes out as well as I hope.
@Backdaft94
@Backdaft94 Год назад
I started with a kit that I paid $80 -$100 for, I can't remember exactly, came with a 2 gal bucket, 1 gal glass fermenter, pretty much everything you need to get started, including additives.
@markwendt3496
@markwendt3496 Год назад
One option that may help keep the startup cost down a little more is buying winemaking kits (Vintner's Best brand for example). The ones I have purchased come with everything you need, except the honey, yeast, bottles, and separate sanitization bucket. I don't recall how much I paid for each of them, but I know it saves some money as far as the equipment is concerned. And, so far I have only had to replace an airlock and syphon tube once each. But, considering each kit came with these items all I had to do was unpack a new one (well, I did have to purchase a brand new airlock since all of mine were in use at the time).
@louanngraham185
@louanngraham185 Год назад
I have gone into a bar or American legion and ask for empty bottles of wine. It helped. I use a tote that I already had for sanitizing.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Excellent idea!
@jimmelton7299
@jimmelton7299 Год назад
I'm being real patient with my fermentation. Will take 1st hydrometer reading at 3 wks . Thanks
@rayblackwell75
@rayblackwell75 Год назад
This might be the final push I need to get going. Thanks!
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Happy to help!
@ernestthornhill8222
@ernestthornhill8222 Год назад
I think there are a few other things that make a lot of sense to add. -Some carboy brushes. -A pack of white cotton washcloths. There's always a need to wipe something up, or wipe clean a piece of equipment. You can bleach them between uses, and soak them in sanitization fluid during use. -A wire rack and a baking sheet. They can be sanitized and used as a place to rest tools, instead of pulling things in and out of a sanitization bucket. -Plastic utensils. Long spoons sized to reach inside your fermenter of choice, some chopsticks that can be used to poke and prod at any fruit floating on the surface to wet it. Nice to haves -Rubbermaid storage box. I like to use a few. I keep everything organized and dust free when not in use, and have some with perforated lids that I use to store carboys that are fermenting or conditioning. With the lid on, no light gets in, gas can escape, and if there's a spill, the mess is contained in the box. It also keeps pets from helpfully investigating and removing bubbling airlocks. -A stainless steel fermenter. There are lots of options from home brewing companies that have great features, but Chapman makes a basic version which is just a pot with some clamps, and a lid with a gasket and a drilled hole for an airlock for around $120. A person with the right inclination could MacGyver the same setup for $70 if they were comfortable soldering or welding brackets onto a stock pot, and using food safe silicone to make a gasket for the lid.
@bucknash
@bucknash Год назад
Also the used market is flooded with wine, beer and mead making equipment. You can go on marketplace in my area and have everything you listed for $50 right now. If you're not in a hurry you get it all for free.
@amazingralph2425
@amazingralph2425 Год назад
I think the kit I put together when I started, thanks to your channel mostly, cost around 100€ from a brew shop, scale and funnel not included. Thats part of your kitchen anyway, right? RIGHT? I get bottles for free since I work in gastronomy, asking your bartender of choice if he/she could safe those winebottles for you might work, too. I get honey from a local beekeeper for 10€/Kg, wich is pretty cheap considering the quality, so go out and meet your neighbours. And if you want to safe some money on yeast nutrients, look into mangrove jacks, their yeasts come with nutrients right out of the pack and they do a good job
@DaveM-mp6yu
@DaveM-mp6yu Год назад
After watching and enjoying your channel, I've started brewing cider. I had used wine brewing stuff from 20 years ago and it all still works great. Thanks for rekindling a long dormant interest. Cheers.
@BusinessEnglishSuccess
@BusinessEnglishSuccess Год назад
I'm sure you can make it even cheaper by using stuff you already have in the kitchen, for example scales and funnels.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Yup, even said that in the video :)
@BusinessEnglishSuccess
@BusinessEnglishSuccess Год назад
@@CitySteadingBrews must have missed that 🙂
@rossk7927
@rossk7927 Год назад
Don't skip the dollar store! Items like funnels, trbos, basters, spiders, zesters, all the kitchen stuff can be had on the cheap. While you're there, check the juices. But probably skip the glassware. Also find, visit, and support your local brew stores. They are often significantly cheaper than Amazon and very helpful to new brewers. Don't be shy 😁 I also hear kits can be a great way to save expenses so don't overlook them as a way to acquire bundled gear at a discount.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
So true!
@joec7275
@joec7275 Год назад
Don't forget Facebook marketplace. I got 3 cases of 16oz ezcap bottles(36 bottles), several wine bottles, 5 gallon carboy with bung and airlock, siphon, bottle wand, tubing and 7 gallon bucket for $50. There are loads of beer brewers that have stopped and are just trying to make room for the next hobby.
@finnw1
@finnw1 Год назад
I wouldn't bother with a dollar store baster, they always leak and often split after a couple of uses
@barrytdrake
@barrytdrake Год назад
Great advice! If you get to know the staff at local restaurants, you might get free wine bottles too! That's how I started my bottle collection.
@russbilzing5348
@russbilzing5348 Год назад
I've been making my own wine for about the last 55 years. Sometimes I use my little glass tubing "still" and turn some of it into Brandy. Until recently, here in Colorado, I've been able to get 5 lbs of pretty fair honey for about twelve bucks. As we know now, that didn't last past the year before and now is in the range of seventeen to twenty for the same. I use the blue, five gallon water cooler jugs they sell at WalMart, as they are easy to find, cheap and lighter in weight than my old carboys. Howsomever, that extra fifteen or twenty bucks in honey, on top of the thirty five or so it used to cost is becoming a tad onerous, with no end in sight. I like to take over a bottle or two to new neighbors and I found the general opinion of my last batch was well received. It was a simple Viking Blood using pure Black Cherry juice. I do appreciate your energetic cheer for the processes involved and your encyclopedic understanding has taught me more than a little I might not have learned, otherwise. Pardon, if you might, all this jabber (I'm getting older), but I think my point comes down to this... I can't bring myself to go against the reasoning of "Johnny Appleseed" who went out ahead of the settlers to plant and nurture apple trees, knowing hard working men would come along after and recognize the real value of his labors. Mostly I just give mine to friends and kinfolk because it warms me a lot to see their faces light up. Keep up the good work and give your wife my best wishes. I think you caught a high, fly ball, there.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Oh she’s a keeper for sure!
@Coxeysbodgering
@Coxeysbodgering Год назад
Earlier today on a UK homebrew group someone was asking about amounts of spices to make a mead for Christmas. I told him to check you guys out as Brian is the Methygln king! Another commenter said he was literally watching you guys!
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
That is awesome!
@Nomad_Red
@Nomad_Red Год назад
Well, I’m currently stationed in Japan again and good lord honey is a rare item out here. Hell, I haven’t even found any commercial meads. Good news is that you guys inspired me to make my own, and honestly I budgeted 250$ from my paycheck and ended up using about 130/140$ with honey being the most expensive ingredient at 22$ for a 2lbs bottle. Worth it though! Especially in a country I’ve lived in for at least 6 years now and haven’t found a single bottle of commercial mead!
@hatakah
@hatakah Год назад
Home production of alcohol of any kind is considered a major crime in Japan. Know our local laws. Please.
@Nomad_Red
@Nomad_Red Год назад
@@hatakah if I lived off base, sure. But I live on base and that’s considered a US Territory. Per military regulations there’s no penalties for a home brew of 1 galleon or less, as long as there is no intent to sell or distribute. I do know your laws and highly respect and follow them my friend. :) Fun fact, it’s also legal if the beverage is under 1% ABV! Which is pretty cool if you wanna make a kombucha or something 😂
@urbanhomesteadingchannel1813
Great information, Brian. I would like to add that I've been able to get the gallon size carboys(fermenters) at my local recycling center. Always check carefully for any chips or cracks. The air lock Bungie fit perfectly on them. I have even found some with screw caps and drill a hole for my airlocks. Thanks again for a great video 💚
@davidlane1248
@davidlane1248 Год назад
I'm about to drop $400 in equipment costs to make my own mead for the first time... But I also work at a brewery and this will be a really nice setup with extra perks because of my job. I'm very excited to be drinking my own concoctions in a few months
@CoachTap
@CoachTap 10 месяцев назад
Something I did was go to TJ Maxx and was able to pick up a lot of this stuff for pretty cheap. Also got the scale and jugs at a local Goodwill, so it's actually cheaper. Thanks for the insight though into this great hobby!
@stonerainproductions
@stonerainproductions Год назад
Not only did you get me back into fermenting, but because of you, my girlfriend is also making Mead! Thanks for the awesome content, we love you!
@AdamFranklin500
@AdamFranklin500 Год назад
Thinking about the video and how cheap it can be to make brews once the initial cost is out of the way, after my previous comment i worked out my 'The Franklin' Mojito Kilju for 1 gallon cost 95p ($1.14) in sugar, free mint from my garden and free limes from a friends tree, so for five 750ml bottles that works out to 19p (23 cents) per bottle. Greatest and cheapest hobby ever, if that doesnt sell starting this hobby i dont know what else will haha ;)
@AdamFranklin500
@AdamFranklin500 Год назад
Some people may look at your example of the start up cost and think wow that's a hit to the wallet, but like you explained afterwards you're then just needing the water, yeast and honey. This hobby becomes so cheap the more you get into it. I can usually do a 1 gallon batch for just under $20. That's $4 per 750ml bottle, that's insane! I can either buy 1 bottle of (a usually too sweet) commercial Mead for that price or.... make my own and make it how i like it and have 5 bottles. Getting 5 times more for my money. It's a no brainer really. Honestly i personally think brewing is one of the cheapest hobbies you can have. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would say the same thing and that is, thank you to both you and Derica for all that you have taught us, I would not be brewing all these amazing brews if it wasn't for the both of you, not only the amazing recipes but showing us how simple it can be.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Thanks Adam, truly appreciate your words.
@_jurist
@_jurist 9 месяцев назад
Brian, you are so right. I did homebrewing for five or six years tried to do it on the cheap. For a year or more. Brewing beers. Then I bought the stuff I should’ve bought originally. It made it much more pleasant to do the brewing. Which may be want to brew more and I got to say it was the best beer I’ve ever drank. And now finding your channel, and watching you and Derica i’ve decided, to make some mead and wine. But learning from my previous experience, I didn’t cheap out on the stuff I needed. And bought it all right from the start. Yes it was a 400+ dollar initial buy in. But I will really be paid back in the end by having some of the best wine and mead that money can Buy. I pretty much none of the stuff that I bought will go bad. Almost infinitely reusable. Keep up the informative videos. I enjoy watching them. And be nice to Derica She’s obviously a real sweetie.
@lorilumax6850
@lorilumax6850 Год назад
I love this breakdown.. well done.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Much appreciated!
@briankittelson4844
@briankittelson4844 Год назад
Hey guys thanks for all the videos i started my first mead last Friday! And am super excited to get going on this adventure! (By the way my wife laughs at me every day when i get home from work and have to run down stairs to check on it lol) its a super simple cyser starting gravity was 1.090 and used 71b yeast
@GO0DWOLF
@GO0DWOLF Год назад
If you're in the central FL area, (Umatilla specifically) D&J apiary carries honey in 5 gallon/60lb buckets for as low as 240 dollars. That works out to 4 dollars per pound and it's enough honey to do up to 20 gallons of mead.
@RayvenFE
@RayvenFE Год назад
Its worth it! ITS FUN. You can also spread out your costs. For example when I first did my brew all I needed was the fermenter and airlock. when it was done I bought the second fermenter for racking. then in a week or so i bought the bottles and siphoning wand.
@sykotik257
@sykotik257 Год назад
Not only does the stuff last a long time, some of it is not even specific to brewing. A good scale and some nice funnels are just good to have around the kitchen in general.
@fredericjaquet3729
@fredericjaquet3729 Год назад
You forgot something : good tutorials and advices such as the ones found on... roll of drums... City Steading Brews channel ! Price : priceless but free of charge ! 😁
@tehcarey
@tehcarey 4 месяца назад
I loved the cheeky $52/bottle joke.
@thewrastler
@thewrastler Год назад
This is the kind of setup I put together over a number of years, and is much more than a minimum viable kit. If you're in the UK Wilkinsons is a great place for brewing equipment!
@nbmaritimer9955
@nbmaritimer9955 Год назад
WoW!! Alot of the equipement compared here in Canada was cheaper for me. I have been buying one thing or another, here and there, every other week or so. Almost got all I need.
@papasmurf9146
@papasmurf9146 Год назад
I have plenty of totes around the house ... double as TRBOS. Fermenters ... yeah, I need more of those.
@thornhedge9639
@thornhedge9639 Год назад
Oh: they need a bottle brush!
@beachdvm
@beachdvm Год назад
I was able to find a wine making kit at a flea market that had most of the things mentioned as well as a corker, 6 gal. Carboy, 2 6 gal. Fermentation buckets, 2 cases of new 750ml bottles, and the bottle drain racks for $35. Score!!! Also shopped around the same market and found a couple of 1 gal. Glass jugs to make my preferred small batches in.
@DZSabre
@DZSabre Год назад
I did not start using a scale recently becaus emost honey's come in 1, 2 or 3 pound containers which makes it really easy to start up without a scale. Once you need to be more precise or need to weigh out fruit or other ingredients, then you can get a scale.
@billyw8186
@billyw8186 Год назад
I didn't even notice the prices, I just saw Brian and City Stedding, so I clicked the video.
@HamsterSoup
@HamsterSoup Год назад
It still shocks me how much more expensive stuff is up here in Canada, even after you factor in the exchange rate. We are getting ripped off big time. However this has not stopped me from starting to some brews. As you said after a few brews the initial investment is worth it. I've already used the equipment for mead, cider, grape wine and even Kombucha. Thank you guys for inspiring me to get into brewing, Keep up the good work! 👍
@keithmcauslan943
@keithmcauslan943 Год назад
There are valid options to some of these and some let you combine 2 in one. I use a square refrigerator lemonade dispenser for final adjustments before bottling, This lets me add things stir and bottle in one place. Bring the bottle up tilt so the fluid runs along the inside (less mixing with air), fill normally. Something similar is now about $18.00. I fill a few swing tops first (sampling bottles) then all the wine bottles I can and finally back to a swing top or some other container (maybe even put it in a glass and drink), No NEED to know exactly how many bottles you need, it could be helpful though. I have a funny reference to your raised lettering pitcher remark every time I hear it. My Graduated cylinder has similar raised lettering. But the printing is on the opposite non raised side. I don't know if this was intentional (maybe the markings were off so they printer the correct markings?). As I fill it until the Hydrometer lifts; the markings don't mean anything to me.
@adamhubert1110
@adamhubert1110 Год назад
Facebook market place and Craigslist are good for second hand equipment. Good stuff low prices
@bucknash
@bucknash Год назад
I've got tons of stuff from marketplace. People get into a hobby then quit and want rid of their gear. I had more bottles than I could ever use because I kept grabbing the free ones that I found on marketplace. So i started posting free bottles. I've got a dozen hydrometers, 3 corkers, 16 six gallon carboys, 8 five gallon carboys, a dozen 1 gallon jugs, 3 auto siphons,....The deals were so good, I was filling my house. Now I'm putting it back on the market, assembling starter kits and selling them for cheap.
@SoederHouse
@SoederHouse Год назад
We just bottled four gallons this past weekend. One of our recipes would easily fetch $40 a bottle. Costs us about $5 a bottle to make. Yummy! (Modified JAOM but using blood orange, D47 and no allspice).
@Gamefreak8112
@Gamefreak8112 Год назад
thank you for putting this in an easy spot instead of parsing through a longer video. Very soon when northern temperatures stabilize the mad science will begin 😈
@tinaburgess7164
@tinaburgess7164 Год назад
Thanks for another great video. You didn't mention a spous (spoon of unusual size). It might be fun and other viewers might get a laugh.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Great point!
@Bildo1986
@Bildo1986 Год назад
You can buy a small one gallon kit online for like$100 dollars.
@EAwai-pk8wf
@EAwai-pk8wf Год назад
Amazon is actually selling crystal geyser alpine spring water for less than two dollars a gallon right now. I got 6 gallons for like $8.50 total a month ago. I checked the listing just now and it's gone up to $9.00. Free prime shipping. I thought for sure when I ordered that I'd get an apology e-mail telling me the listing was a mistake, but it shipped without any issues.
@andrewcours8023
@andrewcours8023 4 месяца назад
I was drinking and cooking with that cheap 1 gal bottle of wine from Walmart for a while. $13/gal. The bottles work just fine as fermenters.
@AtticPCGuy
@AtticPCGuy Год назад
Home brewing has become a bit more popular worldwide the past few years, so should be doable to find some local websites to order from a lot cheaper than amazon with just an hour or so of searching! Started up a second batch yesterday (1st was a straight up mead, this one's a lemon hydromel following your recipe), and I paid about (everything new) 30€ for a carboy, airlock, hydrometer and autosyphon (netherlands here). If you can't find the Aldi bottles mentioned, if there's an Ikea in the area they should have swing top bottles for a similar price (Korken they're called). Only downside is the Hydrometer already arrived broken, so... yeah, no idea on the OG of my first 2 batches. Hopefully I can get an intact one delivered before long! Wish those came in plastic xD My main difficulty has been finding spring water or similar. Every bottle I check at the store has Chlorine in it, lowest I could find was 5mg/l... Considering my first batch has plenty of activity I guess that still works!
@johnaldrich249
@johnaldrich249 Год назад
You can sometimes get bottles for free from bars and restaurants because they usually just throw them out. You have to wash and sanitize, but, hey, you already have sanitizer!
@BigChristopher
@BigChristopher Год назад
Nice video
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Thanks!
@GermanBrew
@GermanBrew Год назад
It’s really crazy that the prices in Germany are so different in Germany. I payed for 4 Fermenter 3l volume 24€ Here also a good honey is just 6€ / cheap but also good honey you get for 4€ in the grocery Yeast is 1,50€ each package
@redbirdsrising
@redbirdsrising Год назад
Craigslist and Offer Up are also great resources for cheap equipment. Sometimes people burn out on the hobby and just want to get rid of stuff.
@jamesb5863
@jamesb5863 Год назад
You didn't mention that the price of enjoying a drink of something your brewed yourself over store bought.....priceless. Plus there is bragging rights involved with home brew that doesn't come with store bought. haha
@VoodooViking
@VoodooViking Год назад
My mom used to drink Carlo Rossi 1gal wine by the ton and we had like 10 bottles lying around. So I found those squatty honey bottles. And the threads on those honey bottles fit perfectly on the wine bottles’ threads and necks.(now these were the tops with self sealing ports) so they wouldn’t allow any air in. Well, I thought that’s perfect! Allow air to escape and none enter. And I can make multiple batches all at once. And I even filled a 1 gallon bottle with water, put the top on it and turned it upside down for an hour and no water escaped. So I was very confident. And it works beautifully for brewing.
@Riptide1884
@Riptide1884 Год назад
Pinellas county, wow I use to live there! It almost hurts to think about how long ago that was. By the way I have really gotten a lot out of your videos - four brews either fermenting or in secondary at this point and thinking about what my fifth one is going to be.
@davidrichards2647
@davidrichards2647 Год назад
I asked the bakery folks in a few large chain grocery stores for their empty frosting buckets. They have everything from 1 to 5 gallon buckets with lids that they just throw away at the end of the day. I quick hole drilled in the top along with a 25 cent grommet and I had several good fermenters for less than a dollar each. You can even add a spigot to the bottom of you want for just a couple bucks.
@tobin_nathan
@tobin_nathan Год назад
How did you get the frosting oil and smell out?!? I’ve got 2 5-gal that I can’t get clean. Tried dish soap, oxyclean, hot water, soaking…. It’s so caked in!
@dougmaggard124
@dougmaggard124 Год назад
Just call it a butter cream wine 😂
@carlosredmon34
@carlosredmon34 4 месяца назад
You could make your first gallon of mead for around $30 if you forgo trying to make precise measurements. You will not know the alcohol content, and you may not be able to replicate your resolute, but it can be done! I have started friends in the hobby with a plastic spring water jug and a balloon for an airlock. That is how my grandfather taught me how to ferment. He never measured anything, used hot water to sanitize, and used bread yeast. But that is how he learned and he passed it onto me. I do measure and I have written down my ingredients in case I want to repeat a batch. But most of the time, I am experimenting and trying new things.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews 4 месяца назад
I would rather teach beginners to measure though right at the start. It's crucial to understanding how things work, not just for knowing the abv.
@eddavanleemputten9232
@eddavanleemputten9232 Год назад
I don’t factor in my re-usable equipment as I’ve been making meads, wines and ciders for years. I consider them as having earned themselves back years ago. Yes, once in a blue moon I’ll have to get a new hydrometer or testing tube. I’m a klutz. But at the price they’re going the cost is negligible. Tricks to reduce cost: Steer away from the most expensive, fancy-chmancy yeasts (liquid smack packs etc) unless you want to make really big batches. Keep an eye out for free bottles, ask whomever you gift a bottle to, to return the empty (they usually do, hoping you’ll gift them a new, full one!), ask restaurant owners etc if you can get free empties they’d normally throw out, buy lemonade and beer in swing tops, drink the contents and wash the bottle, get in touch with a bottle exchange if there’s one in your area and see if you can get empties for the price of the recycling fee: it’s usually lower than the price of new bottles. Take advantage of special offers for honey, fruit and your other ingredients. Forage fruit (safely!). See if neighbours/friends/acquaintances are willing to part of bumper crops of fruit in their gardens at below-market price or for free in exchange of a bottle of finished product. Make use of your freezer to store that fruit. Dehydrate of need be (dehydrators can be quite cheap) and store the dehydrated fruit. See if you can team up with someone to buy in bulk. If you’re part of a home brewing club, perhaps you can pool orders and save on shipping, make good use of codes offering reduced prices, etc. Two people buying together means being able to get that reduced price for 10 packets of yeast, when you both only want 5 packets. Add a few things for other people and presto: no shipping. Also keep in mind that a lot of webshops for brewing supplies also sell stuff for kombucha, kefir, cheese, canning etc. If you know someone who is into that, check if they need something and are willing to order together with you. Shop around. Different websites/stores might offer the same for different prices. When starting out: CHECK YOUR KITCHEN. You might have stuff you can use for home brewing that’s already been there for years. For those who are part of a family that has the habit of making wish-lists for one another for Holidays, birthdays etc: add brewing supplies and don’t forget to include the relevant links so you get EXACTLY what you want. Prioritise what you have/can easily get above what you want to make. I’ve got plenty of brews on my want-to-make list and go over it on a regular basis. When an ingredient from one of those recipes is on offer, I strike… until then that recipe stays on the list. A variation on bulk buying: reach out to your local baker, greengrocer etc and see if you can buy certain ingredients through them at a reduced price (once bought a large tub of wildflower honey through my baker, paid wholesale price; his apprentice had messed up an order and bought too much). Ask local vendors of fruit if you can buy almost-too-ripe fruit off them at a reduced price for your melomels. You wouldn’t believe how much ends up in dumpsters that is perfectly usable, unblemished. Go check out farmer’s markets and strike at the end of their day. The vendors will often be happy to unload fruit that won’t be suitable for selling the next day but is perfectly suitable today. It can get you 30% off to free. Reach out to local beekeepers. Some times they are willing to part with prime product at a reduced price in exchange for a free bottle of mead. Make it known amongst friends and family that if they want to give you a small token of their appreciation, a jar of honey is appreciated more than a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolates. Use left-over sanitiser to sanitise your kitchen. Why throw it out if you can use it to clean some extra stuff, right? Over 2022 I managed to get several gifts of honey totalling around 30 lbs, give or take. Foraged fruit netted me several gallons of melomel that were VERY fruit-heavy. Gifted bumper crops (in exchange for a bottle of mead) netted me several more gallons. Didn’t buy a single bottle, they were all recycled ones. Got one fermenter as a gift. All I bought was fruit on offer, a bit of honey, and some juice. Water came from my tap, I brought it to a boil and let it cool to get rid of the chlorine. I never factor in any tea that I buy because we drink gallons of the stuff anyways. I did buy some extras: tannins, nutrient, pectic enzyme. And I was gifted some. I did buy a new bottle of sanitiser.
@hayesginther897
@hayesginther897 Год назад
I was able to go to my nearby Amish store and got 4 fermenters just like you have for $16. Not trying to steal money from sales for you guys but I figured some people don't know that the Amish like to turn up sometimes with alcohol production.
@christopherbreznai1805
@christopherbreznai1805 Год назад
The only "downside" I've found is too many bottles of delicious mead around the house. Thankfully they make great gifts.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Very true!
@thatjonguy103
@thatjonguy103 Год назад
There are some apple ciders out there like McCutcheons that come in the exact same glass jug as you can buy on Amazon. Same company makes them and everything. I've actually gotten rid of some of them, though painfully, because I had too many of them. While the place I buy them from sells them for about $16 now, the jug itself runs around $5, the cap is another $.30ish, and the cider in the jug can be used to make some pretty good cider. Also check local brew stores as applicable as some of them have discounts on bulk purchases. Honey can be purchased in bulk as well to bring the cost down. I think the lowest I've gotten it to for quality clover honey was around $2.66/lb at the time. I'm sure it's probably around $3 now with how inflation has been going. But, honey doesn't go bad as long as you don't let other things get in it, so I'm fine buying in bulk.
@lesm3652
@lesm3652 11 месяцев назад
I spent like 88 dollars +/- very close to that gorgeous 2 carboy with airlock auto siphon with hose yeast hydrometer and cylinder and star-san haven't gotten a wine thief or bottler yet have bottles around house so that is free and no scale but it came out very cheap for starter set up and everything I bought was off amazon so shop around before confirming purchase there's a compare button somewhere on there and was able to take original cost and reduce it by looking before hitting buy
@lesm3652
@lesm3652 11 месяцев назад
Don't know what was corrected to gorgeous but it's not what I originally typed before auto correct decided that's what I wanted to say lol
@maxlutz3674
@maxlutz3674 11 месяцев назад
I managed to start a bit cheaper. I already had a scale. The two fermenters were on sale at amazon. A set of two was only marginally more expensive than a single one ("free shipping" is not actually free). I had some tubing and a large syringe for bottling. I decided to just let the fermentation come to a natural stop and not get bothered with ABV. A comparison to industrially made mead is hard as the stores around here just don´t carry it. It worked out great. Meanwhile I aquired an autosyphon. I am contemplating to get a hydrometer.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews 11 месяцев назад
I highly suggest a hydrometer.
@jmorris9931
@jmorris9931 Год назад
A good summary of equipment and potential costs. Not sure where you live, but many of your costs seem pretty high. i.e. I buy 5 lbs of honey for $18. Bottom line: shop around, there be deals out there! Keep up the great videos!
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
I intentionally used Amazon since it's probably the most "universal" source for most items that the most people can access.
@vernmorris8898
@vernmorris8898 Год назад
​@@CitySteadingBrews Exactly. One can spend a lot of time and energy seeking out the best prices but not everyone is at leasure to do so. Amazon is often somewhat higher in cost but the convenience can make up for the added expense.
@maillewvr
@maillewvr Год назад
Trying my first cyser on my weekend, Thanks again for the ideas. I have 4 batches aging, trying something new with each one. for cider, how long should I let it bottle age?
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
You can age as long as you like. Generally 6 months is a good start, but more than 2 years doesn't see much improvement.
@julietardos5044
@julietardos5044 Год назад
I did an experiment yesterday that you might like to use for a short video. I used the hydrometer to measure the SG on the hottest water and coldest water that came out of my tap. There was a noticeable difference that would translate to a difference of 0.8% ABV. Unlikely in the real world with these extremes in temperature, but it's there.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Nice work!
@theastronomer5800
@theastronomer5800 Год назад
The 1.000 is at room temperature. Hot water has a lower density (about 5% lower near boiling).
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Even still… with that much range, the difference was less than 1% abv at the end. Not enough to get crazy about.
@julietardos5044
@julietardos5044 Год назад
@@CitySteadingBrews Oh, yeah, totally. And the day to day temperature swing in my house would be way less than that.
@henriqueribeiro8167
@henriqueribeiro8167 Год назад
I am such a Rascal. I use my jug-with-numbers-on-the-side as my TURBOS, and sometimes I use salad bowls as TURBOS, when I need the Jug.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
If you don’t need a huge batch? No need to waste it :)
@henriqueribeiro8167
@henriqueribeiro8167 Год назад
@@CitySteadingBrews As work my brews on the kitchen, I rinse the utensils with tap water, then dunk it on the sanitizer, I use 5ml per brew session.
@johngolden196
@johngolden196 Год назад
Yes rhubarb is growing on my garden just like passion fruit on yours 😅
@i_inf0din254
@i_inf0din254 Год назад
I got two 1 gallon carboys, scale, hydrometer with cylinder, funnels, already had a small tub for sanitizing, PBW cleaner, starsan, auto siphon. I got some bottles laying around, and i already had bread yeast. I got raw honey locally for $24/per 5lbs. I need to get a bottling wand. But overall I think I'm about $170ish in right now (including the 10lbs of honey) so if I can do it, anyone can! I just started my first two batched yesterday!
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Awesome!
@i_inf0din254
@i_inf0din254 Год назад
@@CitySteadingBrews after browsing for another carboy and a bottle wand I realized I overpaid for my carboys by a good bit lol they can be found for $10-15 each and I paid like $23 each. Ooofff.
@DZSabre
@DZSabre Год назад
The fermenters themselves are pretty economical since most 4L fermenters come with free wine.
@maluse227
@maluse227 Год назад
For people in canada Toronto brewing ships relatively affordable stuff to get you going, and Costco has unbelievably cheap honey for mead and apple juice for cider both of which produce good brews. I have a couple two gallon buckets and four one gallon carboys along with all the requisite stuff and I maybe spent like $100-150 for everything, and have more than made back that cost in savings from not buying booze.
@Bob.isnotmyname
@Bob.isnotmyname Год назад
I am quite happy with my Juice making pan. for apple juice or grapes. PS apple juice with honey is not bad. and you don't have to sift out pieces
@Winterborn5
@Winterborn5 Год назад
It’s been awhile but I think I spent $200 over the course of a year for equipment. Just getting pieces as I needed them. The only real cost I have now is the honey and whatever fruit I use. And that is maybe $40 to make 4-5 gallons. I make about 8 bottles at a time and give them out to my friends and family. Dad is normally a rum guy, but now loves drinking my brews.
@MrJohndish
@MrJohndish Год назад
I hit a problem with my brewing journey which is that my autosifon didn't fit in my fermantors. I know, stupid of me for not checking up front but I had the glass fermentors already and never seen an autosifon before. So piece of advise: MAKE SURE IT FITS! otherwivese you need to rack several times and lose that precious product!
@saddletramp1979
@saddletramp1979 Год назад
I use mason jars, I've even used the jar the honey came in.
@saddletramp1979
@saddletramp1979 Год назад
I started with gallon pickle jars, you got to put a hole in the top for the air lock.
@TheTSense
@TheTSense Год назад
My setup: 2x 30 liters fermentation buckets, 13 euros each on Amazon right now (~15 dollars?), with airlocks and tap. No need for hydrometer and cylinder, I don't care how much alcohol is in it exactly and I can do math. It is not like 20% honey and 80% water can result in more or less alcohol per volume on different days, it will always be enough sugar for 8.8%. That is 1 liter of honey on 4 liters of water by the way. 10% honey is only 3.9 (good luck not having that spoil) while 30% honey would go up to 15.2% my last one was 23 liters of water and 5 liters of honey, which will be 7.7% roughly. Also no need for siphon and tubing, this thing has a tap which will drain all but one liter of my brew (I am using the yeast of the last brew to start the next one). I have no bottling tools yet, but I am thinking about swingtops. Saver to carbonite and easier to seal for aging. I use no rinse sanitizing spray (5 euros, roughly 60% used by for my two brews), a boiling hot rag and a large cooking pod to get everything clean. Trying these old viking meads requires a lot of boiling water to clean stuff. No weighing required, the pod is filled by the kettle (which is marked on the water amount) and the honey comes in 500ml packages. 1 liter of honey is 4 euros around here, 5 packs of bread yeast is 1 euro. Don't ask me what the boiled tap water is. So all together, 31 euros on reusable equipment (that is like 40 bucks?) and less than 50 bucks the bucket. It is very dry and I suppose it isn't the most well tasting brew, mostly tasting of alcohol with a hint of honey without any sweetness, but here is the secret. I don't drink. I am just in it for the science. The only alcohol I had in the last 12 months are two glasses of my own mead, one I have half finished while typing this comment. It is just cheap booze.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
If you're in it for the science.... why NOT have a hydrometer? It's not just for knowing how much alcohol. It's to know if fermentation is complete. That's the sciencey part....
@Daily-bread98
@Daily-bread98 Год назад
I got a 25 liter bucket to ferment my drinks in, im almost done with my first wine, very happy with the result so far. up next I wanne try mead. but I wanne try the recipe from one of your videos. and and noticed that maybe 25 litre bucket is to big for that recipe. But what do think? will it be bad for the brew if the fermenter is way bigger than the volum of what I wanna ferment? gotta say, I love your videos :)
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
I would say that is a bit large for a 4liter brew!
@dougmaggard124
@dougmaggard124 Год назад
Don't fear the goodwill I just bought a brew demon 2 gallon fermenter new with bottles, wand with the springe thing tubing and beer mix.somebody paid 175 I paid 14.99
@Exit_343
@Exit_343 Год назад
My main hobbies, bbq and hotrodding...wish I could do them both for less than $250. Lol!!!
@jbreezy2k3
@jbreezy2k3 Год назад
This is not a brewing question. But in one of the videos where you were speaking about yeast, you mentioned you make your own bread? Do you have a channel for bread making? Or suggestion of a channel? Ontop of making my own brews I am interested in trying out bread as well
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Not anymore.
@timsid
@timsid Год назад
Watching my first mead bubble away next to me in my office! (Yes, dark and warm) Been a few days and boy, is there a lot of activity! Eager to see what happens. I used the mead recipe with raisins and tea, to the letter, and started with a SG of 1.120. With my Fleishman's, I expect it to be sweet, but I'm wondering; if I find it too sweet, and I am sure everything is dead(following your instructions to make sure fermentation is, in fact done), what is your opinion of pitching a higher tolerance yeast to bring it as dry as I like? Have you tried this before? As a side note, I used Yorkshire Gold tea, and I intend on naming my brew "C.S. Canadian Gold". Thank you for the videos. My wife thanks you as well, now that I have a new hobby to occupy myself and keep me out of her hair.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Adding a higher tolerance yeast if once everything is done and it is still too sweet would be a good idea.
@kevin_ninja_jones2363
@kevin_ninja_jones2363 Год назад
I spent like less then 150 bucks so far my first kit was like 60 bucks came with everything but bottles and juice or fruit
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
As I said... I used the prices from Amazon, but also bought doubles and triples of some things, a nicer hydrometer kit, and tub, etc etc.
@MarkBeardsley
@MarkBeardsley Год назад
I was wondering if you could do a Carrot and Safron Mead and/or Wine?
@ericanderson4436
@ericanderson4436 Год назад
This is also a hobby that can grow slowly. I started with an empty jugwine bottle, PVC tubing from the hardware store and, please don't use latex balloons. I now have gallon carboys, gallon widemouth jars, 5 gallon buckets, and more nonsense than this video covered. But starting as a lets see if I like it hobby? $25-$30
@TheExalaber
@TheExalaber Год назад
Do you have any thoughts on brewing without a hydrometer other than "don't do it"? I am interested in brewing rice wines, where it is really hard to get usable hydrometer readings because the saccharification happens in the fermenter after the yeast is added, and there there is usually a very large floating cap of rice.
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
That's a whole different animal. You really rely on the senses rather than readings for that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AGEvnu0Ea_8.html
@wm.nabors4243
@wm.nabors4243 Год назад
My wife has a whole yard full of chocolate mint. She is Very interested in making sum mead with the chocolate mint. Can you do a video tutorial on this subject. Love yer shows. Tons of info... B-ko
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
I love chocolate mint as well! I currently don’t have any growing. This gives me a good excuse to buy a new plant! 🥰
@cougarsax2005
@cougarsax2005 Год назад
I've noticed you guys tend to use the s trap style airlocks. Is that a performance thing or just a preference? What others have ya'll tried?
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Personal preference :)
@jeffberridge176
@jeffberridge176 Год назад
I have probably spent close to $300-$400 on equipment by now… honey and fruit only runs me about $100 for every six gallon batch
@heyporcupine
@heyporcupine Год назад
What is the name of that lemonade from Aldi's? I used to buy it and haven't for a while because I can't find it anymore. Maybe I can find it on the net
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
I have only seen it at Aldi. I forget the name but it comes in 750 ml glass swing top bottles.
@cody.g3332
@cody.g3332 Год назад
As an 18yo this seemed too expensive (few weeks of work would pay for it) but i managed to find the basics for £35 - this is for cider however so probably more basic but still fun stuff. Im lucky to have been given a large 5l (ish) tub of heather honey from my boss at work, anu idea if this stuff would be correct for mead ??
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Same gear really.
@mattclose4202
@mattclose4202 Год назад
If I were to add fruit to the conditioning phase for cider how long should I leave it in there? Or should I remove it after a certain time and let it condition longer?
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews Год назад
Usually a few weeks is enough.
@mattclose4202
@mattclose4202 Год назад
@@CitySteadingBrews then bottle it or rack it again and let it sit some more?
@Ali-rb1mq
@Ali-rb1mq 10 месяцев назад
3# of honey from local farm's in grocery stores in miami is like 13$ in 2023, not at large chain stores like publix or windixie or walmart
@CitySteadingBrews
@CitySteadingBrews 10 месяцев назад
Ok, that's a great price.
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