You walk into your homebrewing space. And holy heck, it smells like rotten eggs. You’ve met your unfriendliest enemy: hydrogen sulfide. It smells terrible. Splash racking helps, and copper sulphate can be a miracle cure. But copper sulphate can be toxic. No worries, there’s an easy hack to solve rotten egg smell in your wine, cider, or mead with just simple copper wire. This how-to video couldn’t make it easier!…
Boozy Beverages/ Mead/ Recipes
FRUITED HYDROMEL MEADS with Blackberry and Boysenberry – carbonated and crispy
Having perfected our Crispy Honey Hydromel recipe, it was time to up our game. Homebrew Ohio reached out to discuss some fruit purées that might add a pop of fruity freshness to the recipe. We looked at grapefruit, blood orange, mango, raspberry, blueberry, and so many others. But we settled on homebrewing two thirst-quenching hydromel meads, one with blackberry and one with boysenberry. Purees were added in secondary and recipes…
You voted and we brewed! This pineapple fruity mead is robust. Home brewed with a gallon of wildflower honey and all juice, this honey wine came out so bold! We oaked it and bottled it, all within the span of just three months. Buckle up, mazers, this one takes a sharp turn there in the middle. If you love making cider, wine, beer, or mead, you may find this homebrewing…
Grab a bottle of wine, some glasses, and a few things from around the house and go on a journey with me. In this video, we’re taking the time to talk through the art of balance. What is balance in wine or mead? The core components are water, alcohol, sugar, acid, and tannin – but how does their interplay affect what your mouth and nose sense? Let’s do a simple…
We asked, you voted, we brewed. Through a series of polls, our YouTube Community page decided that we would brew a date and banana wine, sparkling, in the style of a big beer. We figured y’all would vote for a mead, but here we are! Start-to-finish this was pitch-to-glass in under one month. Not too shabby! While it kept a small amount of haze, the flavor is out of this…
After some of our YouTube friends suggested we look at alternative siphoning methods, we landed on the Easy Jiggler. It’s a racking cane that you… jiggle… to get started. But how is it? Does it work? We paid $40 to find out for you and review! Siphoning is something everyone who has home brewed wine, beer, cider, or mead has had to do at some point. Like many homebrewing practices,…
It’s finally complete – our four-part series on how to brew at home! Are you a beginner home brewer? Like just-starting-out beginner? Do you have questions about what equipment to use to homebrew, or how to put it into bottles? This series will take you through equipment, microorganisms, fermentation, and bottling. A lot of folks come to our YouTube channel or website looking for information on how to make wine or…
Peach country fruit wine is amazing. Peach mead should be even better! For this peach mead we went all in with 30 pounds of peaches and ten pounds of honey – then backsweetened it with another pound of orange blossom honey. It’s already tasting amazing as it goes into bulk aging. This homebrewing video takes you from start to finish through the process of making peach mead at home. The…
At some point we all turned to online how-to videos for information on making cider, beer, wine, or mead at home. Homebrewing can be complex! But there are definitely some common mistakes being taught online about brewing, including using raisins as nutrient! We’re breaking down ten of the most common faux pas seen in YouTube home brew content – especially those focused on beginner brewers. Lots of love to the…
In about a decade of homebrewing, I’ve learned a lot. Usually by trying and failing. And sometimes by looking for shortcuts that don’t impact the quality of the end product. For beginner homebrewers, there can be a lot of questions at the beginning. So we made this video help pass along some (relatively common sense) tips, tricks, and hacks for brewing beer, wine, mead, and cider at home. Silicone bungs…