This is a complex brew using multiple types of fermentable and nonfermentable sugars, some of which must be caramelized to achieve the roasty toffee and butterscotch flavors of the brew. This brew is designed to be carbonated and sweet. If you will be bottle conditioning, this will require the use of a nonfermentable sweetener (here, erythritol) as well as a fermentable sugar for priming the bottles. If kegging you can…
Everybody’s playing Valheim, the new Viking game set in an afterlife. A big part of the game is the building and crafting mechanism, which, wouldn’t ya know it, includes making mead! There are a ton of mead recipes to make: Poison Resistance Mead, Minor Stamina Mead, Medium Stamina Mead, Minor Health Mead, Medium Health Mead, and Frost Resistance Mead. But we chose the one made with blueberries, raspberries, and honey:…
Are you wondering how to make your first mead? Or maybe you want to improve on your mead-making skills? Maybe you want to see a starter recipe you can work from to build a mead that works for your palate? Well, here we are! This video has been a long time in the making – and we can finally present you our Triforce of Balance. Acid, Tannin, and Sweetness are…
How do you make a dandelion wine or mead? That is the question that has plagued humankind since the discovery of the humble dandelion. Some of the recipes shown in this video are from the Great Depression and earlier. When we set out to make this dandelion home brew, we set a big goal: over two pounds of hand-plucked dandelion petals. And we exceeded it! This recipe is inspired by…
Home brewing a capsicumel can be an intimidating concept – what if it is too spicy? What if you can’t taste the chile pepper flavor? Infusing a mead with chili flavor and capsaicin doesn’t have to be difficult. In this video we present an easy recipe for a very simple, fruity chili pepper mead that has bold, fruity flavors, a nice whiff of spice, and drinks smooth. We call this…
If you’re ready to make your own home-brewed mead, then you’ve come to the right place. First off, we’ll encourage you to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we post weekly videos every Friday and do livestreams every Wednesday! It’s your go-to place for mead content on YouTube! We have dozens and dozens of mead-related videos – including recipes, how-tos, and tips+tricks! WHAT IS MEAD? Mead is an alcoholic beverage…
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!…
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…