Let’s make a home brewed alcoholic version of tepache – a pineapple agua fresca style drink with a rich history! Tepache is a fermented beverage made from the peels of pineapples, and is sweetened either with piloncillo or brown sugar. It can be spiced with powdered cinnamon and clove — and it’s always best served cold! Even though tepache is fermented for several days, the resulting drink does not usually…
Everyone who grew up in the 1990s remembers Ecto Cooler. Literally everyone, it’s an undisputed fact. But with it being discontinued, what are you supposed to serve at a Halloween party? We’re bringing this ghost of a drink back to life. With tangerine, orange, and loads of honey, this fermented home brewed honey wine does the trick – while reminding you of that classic refresher you loved as a kid.…
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…
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…
Say you want to brew a braggot but don’t know where to start – and say you don’t really want to buy much, if any, new equipment? Let’s do this! This home brew recipe will net you a malty, grain and honey forward braggot beer with perfect hops and an incredible dark amber hue. Homebrewing doesn’t have to be hard. This mead beer is the perfect introduction to braggot fermentation.…
This recipe is ALL about the orange blossom honey. A good honey is critical to this mead’s success. At a low ABV riding just above 5%, this crisp, refreshing draft session mead is perfect for summer sipping. Why not home brew one right now? It can be ready in under a month if kegged. Note: If you’ll be bottle-conditioning instead of kegging, use about a cup of the non-fermentable sugar…
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……
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…
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…