David wanted to make something seasonal for the upcoming chilly months – so we decided to brew up a cranberry braggot. This recipe uses light liquid malt extract, honey, hops, and cranberry purée. But when a tasting halfway through the process yields questionable results, we had to do some thought-exercises around how it might be salvaged……
In this quick Doin’ the Most episode, Anna’s making homemade ketchup! This is a spiced ketchup with some heat and a ton of warm spices. Perfect for a surprise delight on your next burger. Let’s dig in! Also check out our recipes for mustard and mayo! Have you made your own condiments at home? Give us your recipes in the comments below!…
This is one of the early iterations of this recipe, where we used a cold steep for the grains. Current iterations use a hot mash, but this recipe is very smooth and well-balanced. BC loves a good barleywine, but they can be hard to find and relatively expensive. In developing this recipe, he set out to emulate those flavors with an ingredient he loves — honey! This is a mead/braggot…
Tired of plain old peanut butter? Or interested in making your own nut butters? Walnut butter is our flavor of choice. Great for its omega 3 fatty acids walnut butter is easy to make and delicious to eat. What’s your favorite nut butter? Let us know in the comments below!…
We’re making yogurt at home! We’ll show how to breed your own yogurt culture from a store bought sample and make two quarts of yogurt and two quarts of whey. Then you can use your own culture for the next batch. Yum!…
We decided to take on r/mead‘s recent fad of making bread from mead/mead byproducts. We decided for part one of this mead bread series, we’d take on SWEET bread. This bread is steamed in a coffee can over the stove, and could likely be adapted for muffins as well! Also check out our mead sourdough video! What’s your favorite sweet bread recipe? Let us know in the comments:…
BC eats a lot of sandwiches. Anna eats a lot of buttered toast. So it was only fitting we develop our own recipe for homemade sourdough sandwich bread! We took this opportunity to also show how to quickly and easily start a sourdough starter you can keep alive on your kitchen counter! Do you have your own sourdough bread recipe? Share it with us in the comments!…
One day, I was driving by the local Asian market, Super Cao Nguyen. Thinking of the breadth of various fruits and herbs that can always be found in the market, I stopped in and began hunting for session mead ingredients. I knew I had Citra hops in the freezer at home — and I wanted something that would pair well with those. I chose lemongrass, orange peel, and ginger. When…
Rather than juice individual lemons by hand, Anna prefers to peel and pulse them in the food processor! Check out her quick guide to making rich, citrusy lemonade in minutes.…
I know what this sounds like, but I promise you’ll be pleased you tried it. Skeeter Pee is a now-infamous recipe for fermenting lemonade. You’ll need some granulated sugar and three big bottles of lemon juice. Skeeter Pee uses the remaining slurry from an existing batch of wine or mead. So, for example, if you’ve just racked off your apple cider and have a yeast cake sitting in the bottom…