Easy Beginner Mead - Racking and Bottling
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2020
- Easy Beginner Mead Finishing, Racking and Bottling.
Here's the Tasting Video of Easy Beginner Mead: • Beginner Mead Tasting ...
Today we rack and bottle the mead. We made a very simple, repeatable recipe for mead to serve as a "First Mead", something beginner brewers could easily reproduce and learn the basics of mead making.
The first video in this series, how to make your FIRST mead: • How to Make Mead at HO...
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So now we racked and bottled it... how does it taste? Watch the Tasting Video here: ruclips.net/video/Ub_DZvhS7RU/видео.html&ab_channel=CitySteadingBrews
if i am not wrong , there is a danger of methyl poisoning risk. what should i do to avoid it...?
There is a very small amount of methanol created in any wine, mead or cider, even commercial products. The amount is not dangerous, and ethanol os the cure for methanol poisoning anyway. Methanol is really only a problem of you use some method to concentrate it.
I learned a cool trick from an old timer about head room in your jug.... Goes like this.... Always keep a bag of sanitized glass marbles and if your Brew doesn't fill the jug enough then drop in enough marbles until the level of the liquid reaches the desired height in the neck of your jug.... I hope this tip helps someone it certainly has helped me ✌️
excellent tip, much thanks! 😎👍
oh my gosh thank you for this tip. I never would have thought of that but it's gonna come in so handy!
I hate the elitism in brewing. “Extract beer brewing is bad.” “Using bread yeast is lame.” “You can’t use liquor bottles to put wine in.” You have made a mead that is way better than anything in the store for pennies worth, I can’t believe that people would have a problem with that. Good on you two for taking initiative to show people how twisted that is, I’m glad you have success doing what you love
I recently bought a Carlos Rossi sangria 3L jug for my first mead, and stored the wine in some flip tops so I could get started. None of my local stores carry the apple juice in the glass jug. Bonus is I get to make and enjoy some mixed drinks while waiting for the mead to finish
I just wanna point out, that I appreciate the man in this video being a gentleman and letting the lady have first taste the two times during the process. Bravo man, stay classy!
In sweden we have used breadyeast for such things for ages, nothing wrong with it! Best honey-lemon mead I ever had was made with fresh breadyeast, about 17% alc. in it to, we became quite rowdy that midsummer... Thanks for a fun show!
Greetings from Poland, now I can improve my English by listening to what I like!
Brian & Derica, thanks so much for sharing. Made our first batch using this recipe. While ours is only about 6 weeks old, we are already stoked as it tastes terrific. Can't wait to try it again in a few weeks!!!
Best mead ive ever had! aged for 8 months.... 2 months into my second batch! you guys are great! thank you so much!
Omg Derica’s ‘no, no, no, d,d,d,d’ was great. Clearly she speaks the same language as my wife!
You two are the best at explaining straightforward, down to earth subject matter on wine making. So glad to have stumbled on your channel!!!...Thank You!!!
You guys are so cool cant wait to try this
So helpful. Thank you. Best help yet. You guys are great.
You guys are the best! I just started my first gallon batch of mead, which is fermenting like mad, and I am so excited I found your channel to keep me inspired and constantly striving to improve my craft. Cheers!
12:00 I love Dereka's NONONONO. I could see her doing that to you often. I just have a sense that she keeps you in line at times. :)
Also, thank you for the video, great timing because I am almost 2 weeks into my first mead from your earlier how to video. I'm a beekeeper and used all my own honey for this. I hope I have just found a way to expand my hobby! I think I've watched all your mead videos now.
Glad I found your channel. I love mead and love your videos!
Thanks for this!! Definitely going to try!! ✌️
Loving the new timeskip format.
We're working on it more actually. Trying to eliminate the wait between videos on the same brew to a few days rather than months!
Same💪🏿👍🔥
As a new mead hobbiest, this video really really really helped me. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
A pleasant watch. Enjoying your content.
Love the videos! I’m so glad I found you guys!
Thanks for watching!
Good morning yall, I just want to thank you for all the info on your videos, just racked my first ever brew yesterday. 8ish weeks in primary so I'm hoping in the next 3 or so weeks I'll be bottling. This was my test brew and so far I'm very very satisfied. I started another batch and really looking forward to how that will turn out now that I know it's going to be amazing. Thank you again!!
Love the colour of this one 😍
It looks amazing!
Tastes even better, lol.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I just love your Mead videos. Thanks again
Thank you for watching!
Im definitely thinking of making a batch following your instruction. My dad is a hobby wine maker and i plan on borrowing his supplies to make it and then surprising him with the finished product.
Go for it! And... have fun! 😊
Amazing videos! I love that you perform the steps live while talking thru the steps. And, you don't really get off track /rant as much as you think you do. You're making really great content! Bravo!
Glad you like them!
You guys just inspired me to make my own mead! Gonna try to start the process in a few weeks! Cheers!
Just learning your instruction seem easy to follow thanks.
Greetings From Germany, i just found your Channel a few Days ago. I´m happy that i found your Channel, i will Start my First Mead and Wine next Week.
How'd it turn out?
You guys rule! And yes, bread yeast is more than ok to make mead. There’s nothing worse than geeks imposing stupid rules to make ancestral brews! Back then, they didn’t even knew about yeast!!! Love your channel!
True ancestral mead makers use the magic rod to mix their mead, none of that fancy pants "yeast" thing they pour in in blasphemy to the Gods of brewing.
Good deal I can’t wait to try myself
Great Video. ThankYou
Bread yeast YES! For anyone interested, I’m getting consistent 16 to 18 percent out of Red Star Platinum baking yeast, not a hard cake at the bottom (careful racking), but not noticing wispy’s either. Love, love LOVE all your videos and your back to basic attitude!
Rowrowrowrowroworow! (Star Platinum... Sorry, I'll go now.)
Bottled my first mead today and I'm absolutely over the moon with how it turned out. You guys helped me so much with the process. Thank you very much!
Yo do you know
Any way to rack it without any equipment bro can I not just scoop out the liquid
Awesome! Ours is ready to rack today. I started on July 4th and I’m so excited.
I've found that using a zip tie or two hooked under the handle and over the bung work much better and are more convenient(easier) than rubber bands or ties for bungs wanting to creep out of the bottle.
Just an fyi for anyone that has a few lying around
I just had a cranberry mango mead stall with a high sugar level and an abv of 5.5, so I added a jalapeño to it for a week, after two months of conditioning, and bottled. Folks love it. It’s tart sweet and fire 🔥. And the fire helps with the sweet! It’s a wonderful mistake. I share this because you two motivate me to try different things. Thank you 🙏 for doing what you do.
Nice idea! Glad it worked out!
Thanks for linking part two in the first vid :D
No problem
Just found you guy and am rapped! GREAT info given in a really lovely light n breezeeee presentation... THANK YOU!!!
Angel's share? Since it's mead let's call it Valkyrie's share. Skal. 🍺
Well... that assumes all mead is of Norse origin, it's not even the first mead, nor the only mead. Mead is universal, found in China, Egypt, Africa, North America and in Norse lands.
. . ...jejejejeje,, I said the same thing!!
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Well then, call it the Bees's share, better yet, the Queen's Share!
@@CitySteadingBrews fair point, but you cannot deny the mainstream association would justify the term
@@Cloudrunner5k sure, but that doesn't deny me the opportunity to be pedantic anyway.
I want to thank you both for making such approachable videos and making it pretty easy to ease my way into this hobby. I started my first mead after watching your super simple cyser video on 7/21/20, and now have four meads (Cyser, ginger, sack, and rhodomel) and two wines (elderberry and apple pie) started.
Awesome! That's great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Hey, I love the videos....always leaves me smiling. I've had so much luck making Meads from your help. I really appreciate the Videos keep em up.
These videos of yours are seriously the best ones I've seen . Informative and funny, I will be making mead this weekend!!
Just bottled this mead today! I brought some over to my experienced mead brewer neighbor and he said it was amazing =) . He couldn't believe it was my first mead. I didn't have the hydrometer when I started it 3 months ago but he suspected that ABV was around 6% which is perfect because I love sweeter meads. Thanks for making my first mead a success!
Love this! I made mead when I lived in the Congo. Authentic wild honey as it came with bees trapped in it. Used bread yeast came out great.
If you want to, you can always overproof this with a little rum. We did this for Christmas and it went down a storm.
Awesome shares. Working my first meads and plan to use this recipe for the next. Many thanks to you for sharing! 😄
Thank you both so much 💓, now I know how to make my own 💝💖💝🥂
I wanted to say "Thank You" to you both. I discovered your videos about a year ago. Couldn't stop watching them. They were fun to watch, insightful, and got me excited to try my own brewing. I have bottled my first batch, and yesterday I started a new batch of your orange and raisin, tea recipe. WITH Fleischmann's Yeast! LOL. You are right if it tastes good. who cares. Thank you again. Keep making your videos. They are so fun to watch.
Awesome, thank YOU for watching and supporting us. It's great to see someone enjoying this hobby as a result of our videos!
If all goes as planned my next effort will be a 2-3/4 gal batch of this recipe. My most pleasant mead to date was with bread yeast.
@@bucmeister7713 - It’s fun, isn’t it? 😊 Got a Viking’s Blood inspired cyser waiting to be bottle carbonated and the mojito kilju is 27 days into fermentation and finally slowing down. Trying to decide on ginger beer or passionfruit wine/mead next. Ugh... decisions... yet it’s fun and self-rewarding because we get to drink the result!
It always makes me happy to see someone getting into home brewing so I couldn’t resist dropping you a note. I’m glad you enjoy it! Keep watching and re-watching the videos on this channel: you’ll find yourself adding recipes to your ‘want to brew’ list and thanks to the tasting notes on the 6 months and 1 year videos you’ll get a good idea of how the brews turn out over a longer period of time... which is absolutely great!
Great job guys it looks amazing and now I'm jealous. Guess I now have to go make myself some.
Yup, you do!
Did you? How’d it go?
@@eddavanleemputten9232 i did and although I did so some things differently it came out great. Not my best wine ever but age could make it an amazing wine
@@thewatcher2524 - That’s great news! I didn’t know you made wines as well. Mead is different and perhaps of you do add nutrients to your wine, you might consider doing so for mead should you make one again. I use home made nutrient (boiled baker’s yeast) and that seems to help a lot, along with de-gassing daily during fermentation. I love brewing meads, wines and ciders as each has its own characteristics I love.
Happy brewing!
Just bought my first mead kit. I'll definitely be referring to your videos. Sliante!
I’m so totally going to try this I saved your videos and you guys are so informative you’re amazing and thank you for your videos
When I made my own Mead it took 6-months to age in the bottle but it came out taste in fantastic
Try another but use Apple juice, You will love that. All the best, Karl.
Hello,
I make my mead the same way that you did this one, with the same yeast, and mine NEVER gets a chance to age, it gets consumed to quickly too. It comes out that good.
LOL, I age one, drink one that day, and drink 2 within a month.
I made some on June 20 its still doing its thing.
Omg... i love you guys, the vibe you give and everything about you, I came for the mead and subscribed for you.
Awe thanks!
I'd like to see your take on kombucha or a high alcohol kombucha.
Well... you won't like my answer. I don't like kombucha... I have tried dozens of types and just can't get into it.
love your channel, much thanks! 🫡
Wow thank you so much!
thanks for getting me into mead making
You're welcome.
This was actually the best two part tutorial on making mead, whenever I start, ill follow these videos
Edit: So right after making the inital batch, you leave it to ferment for a good 6 months or so, and, to my understanding, shake it every week/2 weeks? And then by the 3 month mark, test to see how its fermenting, rack it and then let it ferment some more and then by the 6 month, bottle it and enjoy? Did i get all that right?
Edit 2: How do you safely remove the stopper without having the mead shoot up out of the jug
We only did a couple months on this one... you don't always need 6 months. Take readings. As for swirling, I only do it daily for a week or so. Test after a month. Then do as we say in this video: ruclips.net/video/hsOd9rWRcSU/видео.html Also... follow the first video in this series as it goes over assembly, but this one does show all the rest of the steps.
@@CitySteadingBrews thank you!
Started a fermentation 3 days ago. The hardest part is waiting to taste it 😬
Give it a month or two!
Really needed a video like this, have 3 different meads on the go and the patience to wait is killing me :D
Just wanted to say thanks for the cool video. Just ordered everything to give it a shot - Hopefully I'll have some New Years mead!
You should have Halloween Mead actually. :) But for New Years it will be even better.
$30 for Chaucer's? How high is Florida's liquor tax?! Now I know why meth is so popular there.
Just looked it up, I must have it confused with another.... It's $14, still 3x what we can make it for.
im ready to pull the trigger on making my 1st mead after watching your great video ,just bought 10lbs of blackberry honey from local farm
Awesome! Enjoy!
Found you guys channel yesterday, a friend makes homemade wine and I want to try a mead. Ty for your tutorials
Thank you
great vid. that mead i made with the dehydrated honey and the dark berry mix was also made with bread yeast, and came out fantastic.
Howdy from Texas. I just started my first mead based on your recipe yesterday!
Awesome! Best of luck and happy brewing.
I waited 10 weeks to rack my first mead using y’all’s recipe and it was awesome! Thank y’all!
Just discovered your channel today. Subbed after the mead making video. Excellent teaching content.
Thanks and welcome!
We moved into a condo a few years ago and I gave away all of my beer/wine making equipment. You have inspired me to try the small batch style of making mead and more, went out today and picked up the very few needed supplies. Thank you for all the videos.
I just saw your videos and might take my first attempt in making mead, or "hidromiel" (that's what we call it in Mexico). Loved both videos and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Warm greetings from Mexico:)
this channel is awesome
Why thank you!
i love the gremlin energy. thanks for the tutorials, gonna start making mead asap :)
Love these videos and the explanation of your steps. I'm just getting into making mead I'm awaiting the arrival of my base kit and just wanted to say thank you. Look forward to more of your videos!!
Glad it was helpful!
Watching from MN, started my first batches of hard cider last week. Going to try mead this week! Thanks for the videos! Enjoy watching!
Enjoy!
Thanks for the information video.
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful color. I ferment with nothing BUT bread yeast 😁. As always nu nice vid. Thank you for sharing.
i love watching your videos my son has bees and he wants to make so mead so i told him about your channel so thanks for the the video
That is awesome!
thank you for your videos! I'm planning on starting my first batch soon and I wouldn't have been able to do it without your videos, thanks for the passionate and informative videos!
Glad I could help!
i finally am going to embark on mead making. I've done homebrewed beer with good results always wanted to try mead. And I'm going to use this recipe to do it, wish me luck
Wow.
I have to try to make this.
Looking at all of the other types of spirits, they all look complicated, this looks like even something a novice like me can make. And not screw up.
Thanks for the video
You two are awesome and I’m excited to create mead for the first time.
Awesome! And thanks 😀
I just tasted my JAO. So much better than commercial. My first mead! I'm hooked! Thanks for your advice.
Cool channel!
Great video!
Cool people!
Thanks
Just racked my first batch about 10 weeks in, after your videos inspired me to get into this hobby. It's so much fun! My first is 10.5% abv, not bad at all! Friends, family, and coworkers are all excited to try it after it's aged for a bit. Thanks to you both for introducing me to such a fun pastime!
Just finding this channel, you guys are amazing, I just purchased everything I'm going to need after watching your videos, can't wait!
Welcome aboard!
So I have started my first mead and have gotten to the racking process...i pasteurized my 3- and one-half bottles and then took 2 bottles down to my basement for clearing...i put a half bottle and a full bottle on top of my refrigerator and in one day 24 hours...the ones on top of my refrigerator are crystal clear. This is something that you may or may not have addressed in your casts...the small amount of vibration and heat from the refrigerator have cleared the one and a half bottles more efficiently then the ones in my basement.
Thanks for this video, I have been making mead for years with bread yeast, and people ask how to do it. Now I can just have them watch this, much easier for me!
Thanks for making more detailed videos! I would love to see how you handle things like stabilizers too
We don't. :)
Just racked a simple red made with bread yeast, the lees were so hard I had to spray them loose from the bottom. Good stuff!
I just discovered your channel and have just begun my first attempt at brewing my own mead! Love your videos and am looking forward to watching many more of your videos
Welcome!
This was the basis to my first Mead. My dad and I just used honey,water,yeast. We shall see. Love your videos
I started making wine some 30 yrs ago and I am a huge fan of the yeast you folks are using in this video and the only yeast that I use.😉
Like the format too. Know might be a little more effort to make but for a begginer brewer, it shows the whole process. Thanks!
Well, get ready for even more improvement! We have a new ideas to shorten the wait for the updated videos!
There is a mead brewery in Manila near Tamworth, in country New South Wales. I became a fan of mead when I was posted to an Armour Corp. Unit headquartered in Tamworth. My great uncle lived on the Manila road, so I would stop by and visit him either on my way out or on my way back. My uncle would get a kick out of me turning up in a army land rover and sitting for chat and dropping off a bottle of mead. My uncle served in New Guinea during the Second World War during the defence of Australia, and he would salute me when I was in my uniform with slouch hat with emu feathers. I miss him and I will make this mead in his honour. Thanks for the video and information.
I bought some bottles! I was just looking for some for a white wine. I got to try the mead.
This is a simple mead, but it's my go-to.
This vid was a huge help. Started my first batch. Though I went with craisins and dried cherries. Also started an experiment with plums.. thank you for the knowledge on this vid
i love both of your camera presences on your video's. It feels like wer're personally friends and that its a back n forth educational conversation :)
Thank you! That kind of feedback means a lot to us.