Easy Home Brewing Mead (Honey Wine) – Part I
Mead is a wine made from primarily honey. Adding fruit to the mead can add great flavours, rendering it what is called, “Melomel”. This is my first attempt a…
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Should there be any worry of the pH of your water during this entire
process?
Holymolypatoly
March 16, 2014 at 4:16 am
You should ferment the mead with the orange peels. It”ll add even more
flavor and character to your brew. It wont matter if they are on the bottom
when you bottle it either because you never use the stuff on the bottom
anyways (it’s not quality, nor clear enough to pass off). And when you
siphon off the bottom part of the mead (where the peels will fall), you can
bottle it and use it for cooking. Also a month isn’t long enough. Add the
fruit after 2 months, then age it for an additional 4-7 more months.
mrtruefeather
March 16, 2014 at 4:45 am
Howdy Sir! Long time no type lol. Great vid, i just had an itch to try
brewing some mead. Thanks for the vid, and immos vid was great as well(
pass my hello). I will be doing a long overdue vid tomorrow brewing my
mead. Cheers sir! The humble gun is back.
Gabe The Gun
March 16, 2014 at 5:19 am
Hey, Thanks for the video….good by the way…new to winery and like the
idea of honey…..
Jan Borden
March 16, 2014 at 6:01 am
and how long should i let it stay in the secondary fermernter after i
transfer it
Justin Greer
March 16, 2014 at 6:41 am
Hey. I started a melomel about 15 days ago. The yest slowed way down at ten
days so I pasturized some sugar rack it and added yest nutrient and it very
active but it’s real cloudy is that bad?
Kevin Barker
March 16, 2014 at 7:03 am
Craig Where is the PART 2 of the easy home brewing mead????????????
Anselmo Maceroni
March 16, 2014 at 7:15 am
is he an albino? just wondering
Magnus øren
March 16, 2014 at 7:26 am
Hi Craig, have you made a plain mead? I’ve yet to taste mine that I brewed
last year without any other flavours. I’m still undecided as to whether I
should sweeten it or not. Do you like dry, medium or sweet mead?
Brew Tube
March 16, 2014 at 8:05 am
Great video Craig,I would love to try this one day,Never had it
before,Cheers!
jakeanddar
March 16, 2014 at 8:17 am
@Lillianbini follow the directions. Typically 10g is what you’ll need at
that volume.
ASRaithe
March 16, 2014 at 9:16 am
Yay! This is kinda like finding out a friend is having a baby at the same
time. I just started my first batch of mead in the start of January. I just
put it into the secondary, to clarify. I gave it a taste test and ended up
dipping in for a full mug it was so yummy. I didn’t add any fruit, just
13.1 pounds of honey at about 5.5 gallons. I also put a warming belt on my
fermentor after 1 week to keep the temp around 78F per recommendation of my
LHBS.
Jacob Y
March 16, 2014 at 10:01 am
Use spring water instead of tap and also when you’re pasteurizing, remove
the white foam building up at the surface; it’s an impurity.
NinjaPenguinCossack
March 16, 2014 at 10:25 am
Ya and that is about it just one type of microbe can survive in it, all
other bacteria can’t actually survive in honey, it almost chokes them out,
and the one type of bacteria that can survive in honey won’t actually
affect adults.
tmanrogers95
March 16, 2014 at 11:12 am
@ejlebert that’s how I started. Yes, it will work just fine.
ASRaithe
March 16, 2014 at 12:03 pm
13:05 has just made my day xD
thefuckestuppest
March 16, 2014 at 12:38 pm
hmmm. i will try this in the future. what end a/c do you expect?
spockady
March 16, 2014 at 1:38 pm
Would you warm the frozen berries up to room temp then add? I started a
mead on Dec 29th and would like to add something to it soon. A 1 gallon
batch meant for next Christmas…maybe we can do a mead swap??
Will Sutherland
March 16, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Cool Video, I’m planning on doing a Blackberry Mead very soon. I’ve been
wanting to do this ever since I tasted some Homebrewed Blackberry/Honey
Mead at a Local Homebrew Tasting where somebody had brought a batch of
Blackberry Mead. Very tasty. Cheers!
Pooka NC
March 16, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Nice. I’m trying to locate some fresh local honey for my first Mead.
Dactat
March 16, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Hi Craig! Amazing videos!!! Do yo have some website where I could find all
he ingredients and procedures to brew original mead? Before to start with
melomel and other recipes, I would like to brew just mead. Also, I am a bit
confused about to rack the mead on a second fermenter…It’s necessary?
Thanks!
Runes Mead
March 16, 2014 at 3:27 pm
making mead has been a dream of mine for a long time. think i will try it
very soon, and add some raw cocoa to it
foffilollipopp
March 16, 2014 at 3:59 pm
definitely wanna see how this comes out!
epicbeerdude
March 16, 2014 at 4:11 pm
@defiythelie I might add some zest in secondary.
CraigTube
March 16, 2014 at 5:07 pm
once you start adding all the fruit it is no longer MEAD
dee gee
March 16, 2014 at 5:30 pm