Make Mead easily and Successfully
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2010
- This is a tutorial on how to make mead honey wine very easily and successfully. This is perfect for the beginner who never made mead but always wanted to. I show you a very stable and successful method of mead making in a one gallon batch size which is easy and inexpensive to do. Lots more mead making stuff on my website at:
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I made this mead according to this video and it came out great! My friends really enjoyed it!
Very good video. I've searched for over two hours and watched many videos on this topic, this one is the best one I've found and highly recommend it.
Thanks :)
This is the first mead making video I watched five years ago. I’ve made about a hundred gallons now and this video is still the best mead making tutorial out there. Cheers to this man!
12 years later I still use this everytime I make mead. I get great responses from friends. Thank you!
I would like to thank you for this video, I watched it over a year ago and I just finished bottling my first two gallons of mead tonight. An orange mead like you show and a huckleberry mead. They are both around 14 months old and taste fantastic
( the orange is a little better). So thank you for the great video !! it was a long process and there were times I thought the batch had " gone off" and was lost, but over time things mellowed out and now it is quite good !!! thanks again and good luck to those who are trying for there first batch... remember to be patient, just wait it out it will get better LOL.
Hi Will. My name is James and you were the first person to show me how to make mead. You and I spoke back and forth via email for a while. I want to tell youtube (and you) that you are a complete gentleman, a goodhearted person, and a huge help. Were it not for you, I would not have entered the homebrewing hobby. Thank you and I wish you and yours the absolute best.
James
If you’re a home brewer, I recommend using a fermenting bucket for primary. Transfer to the one gallon glass jug for secondary. Makes it a lot easier to throw out the oranges and raisins and stuff left over after primary. Can’t imagine it’s easy to get that stuff out of a glass jug.
your tutorial helped me make a delicious batch of mead :) thanks Will!
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!
What kind of honey do you use? I know on your page it says unprocessed, but by heating it to 140 degrees you are partially processing it. So would any store bought honey work?
I've been watching mead making videos for weeks...this is the most understandable one of the bunch!!!
Thank you so much. You rock!!!
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching. And be sure to visit my website for more!
Found this completely by accident after making the basic mead recipe on your website. The mead is wonderful! Thanks for the website and the vid!
I just tasted my mead I made a year ago, I forgot I had it till I seen this vid it taste pretty freakin awesome :D
Master Blader you sir just made a honey whiskey
@@barlas2740 how long does it take to make a melomel?
I tried it after seeing this video, all said in done it was almost a year and half after I originally made it. I was nervous to taste it, and I never ended up drinking it, but I have it to a co-worker and he loved it. Mine ended up fizzy like champagne
NOW i can get fucking drunk and play Skyrim with my friend,he is my favorite drinkin' body :D
lol
***** If i still throw down mead on my throat, i don't care :D
+Timofte DarknesWay Pmsl
Just as an aside mead with juniper berries is really good has a slight piney aftertaste.
I tried this about 2 years ago after seeing this video. I was bored and had nothing better to do so I ordered everything I needed that I couldn't get at the grocery store and tried it. I ended up aging it for a year in my closet after it was mostly done fermenting. It ended up kind of like champagne, it was fizzy. I didn't drink it, I ended up giving it to a co-worker and he and his friend loved it. 👍
You know how to make so many things, it's honestly impressive. Kudos to your talent and learning.
this is very helpful. thanks. the only part that bothers me is wondering how you get those orange wedges out...
Darcy Lane get a coat hanger and bend a small hook and wham you can get the oranges out
just add water
"I'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead."
five years on and I still refer this video to anyone who is looking to start their journey into being a meadmaker. once you get deeper into the science of it things really start to get interesting.
Thanks :)
Mr. Kalif I just want to say thank you. I’ve been watching your mead making tutorials on and off for about two and a half years now. Watching your videos is what peaked my interest to the point of deciding that I would eventually do all of this. Since then, I’ve been learning as much as I can about the process from different sources including your book. I’m actually in the middle of making my first batch of mead right now. Just waiting for my must to cool down to room temp, before pitching D-47
did you sanitize your counter where the orange wedges are in contact...just wondering
Yes, definitely sanitize everything that your ingredients come in contact with.
I sanitize a cutting board.
Man I'D kill for a moon sugar sweet roll...
Thank you so much for a clear and concise tutorial. I can't wait to try making my own mead.
Thanks so much for your videos. They have been fantastic. Because of you I started my first batch of mead today. 4 gallons, 2 gallons regular, 1 gallon peach, 1 gallon blueberry. It's going to be hard waiting 6-9 months.
You sound alot like teddy from bobs burgers
Kevin Lee I thought he sounded familiar
Skyrim brought me here.
lol,me 2 XD
this is a really good video. I've been homebrewing and making mead for 3 years now, and have talked to and brewed with a lot of guys. I wouldn't exactly agree with everything you're doing here, but it is definitely possible to make a very tasty beverage exactly the way this video shows, and it makes it look easy. well done.
I love skyrim
Dovakin
but if you heat the honey it destroys all its good properties . I would boil water and add fruit then cool down to room temperature, then add honey and yeast.
I would just like to thank you for this very helpful video. I was interested in making mead and found recipes, but had questions about making mead. Your video answered these questions and set me on the path to successfully making my first mead. I have tasted the mead i made and it iz very nice. I have six pints I plan to age for at least a year. Can't wait to try them. Thanks again. You were a big help.
I really like your videos. You're straight to the point and everything you say is something that needs to be said.. thanks
clearly when the vikings made it they couldn't sanitize anything so what did they do?
+Dovahkiin No they would not, but each batch would taste different based on contaminates, season, weather, water, honey (available flowers) etc. by sanitizing and using exact measurements, you can consistently make a great tasting mead. Same concept applies to Dried meats, and cheeses
Up until around the mid 19th century, no-one knew that yeast was the driver behind fermentation. Beers and wines produced before that were what is now known as a 'wild' ferment. We're living in a period of time where beers and wines have been the best tasting and most consistent of any period of history.
does anyone else think this guy sounds like Vince Vaughn?
Maybe if he had a slight cold, then yes
Lou Ferrigno
You make some of the best tutorials on youtube.
Thanks 1000 times for the great video, and the otheres :). Now i made my first batch. Regards from the Viking land Denmark :)
This guy sounds like BaBaBooey
anyone else here because of skyrim?
Thank you for an awesome video. I never made this before and I want to make this. I will visit your website later to pull down whatever information I can acquire to make a successful mead. Thanks once again. ....thumb up
Very good tutorial. Well done. Thanks for posting it!
Mead is derived from the Slavic Word for Honey, "Med".
Mead was a drink that originated from the Ancient Slavic Tribes in Europe.
The Vikings learned to make mead from the Slavs.
Practically every group of people with access to honey and water have a variant of Mead. It's found all over the world. Africa, the Med, all over Europe. The Greeks called it Ambrosia. The name 'Mead' may come from the Slavs, the drink is pretty universal.
First ever recorded mead was from China 7000 BC
Cheeky breeky😂
You do realize the Vikings didn't have raisins or oranges right?
You do realize it's for flavouring right?
yeah the Vikings didn't do that with those fruits the would have used native apple plants and some spices that's seen in modern Scandinavian vodka, special sugar ie pearl sugar and when the came to the new world they would of added some maple syrup to it. you can do a whole lot better flavor wise than oranges and raisons and in fact its a disgrace to mead. this is not honey wine mead is Viking brew.
No they used elderberry and alot of it is used for ph balance as much as it is for flavor
your misinterpreting my post if they were to use a fruit at all it would have been an apple. they have so many delicious spices over there that the raisons and orange isn't necessary.
FearOps The vikings did have territory all over europe, and traded with many other cultures. Raisins are common in a lot of old English and other British food since they last quite a while, I reckon the vikings probably used raisins, oranges are harder to keep fresh on the trip up from spain or the middle east or wherever so I doubt they would have had them.
Thanks very much for this great video. Just made my first batch of mead following your tutorial. Demijohns bubbling away merrily. Can't wait to try it - I'll have to be patient!
Oddly enough, I began searching the process of making mead after I tasted some Jim Beam Honey whiskey. not the same thing I know but I'm always looking to diversify and learn more about different alcoholic beverages. Especially something with a lot of history behind it. Cheers brother.
I've made your recipe a couple of times already, and its a favorite with the bunch here! The modifications I've made are: I've started steeping the water in Earl Grey tea ahead of time to give it a darker color and a mellower taste, I add a little more honey-water after the first (and sometimes second racking) to top it off and to "amp up" the alcohol content, and I ended up using Red Star Pasteur Champagne yeast which seems to work perfectly for me.
@epicfantasy I want to thank you again. With all the information I gathered and your video I "succesfully" made a batch of 2 x 5 litres. It slowly is starting to ferment!
I love you Vids man, I've been making wine for about 4 years now and thanks to you I feel comfortable expanding into Mead, always wanted to try it but it is so hard to find. P.S. I love that you stress cleaning your equipment, I've herd so many stories of people turned of wine making in the begining because of a contaminated first batch. ( Sucks to lose 5 gallons)
I really enjoy watching your videos
Love the video! Great format, mead is fun!
This is a great tutorial I was recently tasked with a project in social class (in grade 9) to study a part of Ancient Egyptian culture turns out they made a primitive mead and basically lived off the stuff. I asked my teacher if I could make some mead for the project and he said sure as long as you call it "Egyptian juice" and make sure it's non alchoholic so I just finished making a big batch of honey date mead
Don't ferment it by adding yeast. That creates the alcohol. I would say that you could try mixing honey water and dates in some way or other. You might come up with something tasty. I am not sure of the percentages. But... be careful with that too!! Over time it might ferment.
thanks for all these great videos. Thumbs up and subscribed! Now time to make me some mead myself!
I'm used to bleach so I used that for sterilization. Rinsed with boiled tap water after it cooled some. Although you could just use boiling water like canning I believe. But boiling a gallon jug might not be practical in the average kitchen.
Thanks for guide it was helpful as I didn't want to spend much money. Some of the best things are done dirt cheap.
Thank you so much! Very informative, I can't wait to get started.
Just racked from primary to secondary, smells awesome (oranges and desert honey!)! It is very dry, and high powered I've never had a beer be this high powered going from primary to secondary.
Thanks man cheers for the tutorial from Australia
I tried this recipe, as novel I was reading inspired me to find out what it was. So after doing two batches, I compared my second batch to a Commercial brand here called Maxwell Honey Mead, and although I let this recipe go to dry and did not back sweeten like the commercial brand, this one by far tastes way better and not like medicine, even after only 6 months this recipe is awesome. With age this is going to be great.
Thank you for your vids i have my first batch fermenting now and it looks like it is coming along nicley
I started making beer, but I am pretty interested in making mead as well! Good video, thanks!
I made this receipe many years ago. I used champagne yeast, it was beautiful.
Great video I am going to try this next batch of honey I spin out of my hives, Thanks
@lookin4space Grats on the mead! And thanks for the great tips. Seems like you are having fun with it all!
Cheers Will, Ill check those things out. Thanks! Your a cool guy!
@CDRK22 thanks for watching and subscribing. Have fun with the mead making and send me a message if you need any help/have any questions!
@ThisFlat thanks, great advice. Campden tablets are perfect and wine makers use it all the time.
Wow, I wanted to make some for this Xmas, but I think it would be for next year's.
Thank you so much!
Hey. I made a batch of this a few months ago. I'm a total newbie. Big fan of Lindesfarne Mead. After a few days, I notices what looked like mold growing on my oranges. It wasn't in the mead though. So I pulled them out then boiled the mead for a while to try and kill any bacteria that I could. (I don't know what this did to the yeast I wanted - remember I'm a newbie ha ha). Anyway, I cleaned my carboy very well before I made the mead, and then again before I put the mead... Please read next post
Great video right here!
@Tank35 This is a medium mead. Right between dry and sweet. To sweeten I would add another cup of honey and reduce by a cup to dry it.
great video! thanks man!
Awesome tutorial, I want to try this after my cider is done.
@Tank35 I have a bottle brush.Have to use it to clean a jug after it has fermented a batch. When I am using the bottle again, after sanitizing I just rinse. But some sanitizers are no-rinse.
nice, I usually use lemon rind and lemon juice for my nutrient. Always good to learn an alternative.
I just cracked open a jar I had sitting for a year. I passed it around the table for Thanksgiving and everyone loved it. Guess it's time to start working on another batch.
good tip. Thanks!
@Starbat88 yes, definitely. You are absolutely right about the honey. It's true. But once you add water to it, or fruts, it becomes a feeding ground for bacteria or wild yeast. This is why your yeast grows so fast and turns it into mead. But, we want to prohibit any unwanted organisms from growing. Great question.
This guy is a lot more gentle with his mead... I like that
I mean I'm not gonna be that delicate but you can definitely see how much care he puts into his work
You are very welcome. Good luck and have fun!
You are very welcome. And thanks for the kind words!
Well we just set up our first 2 batches and were good to go, thank you for your presentation it helped us a lot. I'm really looking forward to experiencing the drink that started it all. How did they even come up with yeast, it still blows my mind that our ancestors harnessed it. I' m sure the little chariots were tiny but they've taken us an one hell of a ride XD
I would add sanitizing the counter as well. Great tutorial!
@epicfantasy
Got 2 meads going now fella ! thanks for all your help in the videos . . . they really are great.
my first mead i used dried cherries, an orange, yeast, honey, 1 jar of english organic honey and spring water - it's bubbling well.
my second one is raisins, pear, rasberry, yeast, honey, 1 jar of manuka honey and spring water. That one is not starting quite as quick which was a surprise, but i put it down to the pear/ manuka honey change i think. Hopefully it'll start churning !
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching and good luck if you make mead!
You are welcome. Have fun!
Good video! Thanks!
They get very soft and come out very easy with a pencil or something like that.
doing this recipe tonight...thanks!
Great! Thanks so much for the advice. I will let you know how it works out.
The oranges are optional. Its fermenting now for three days. Looking good to me! Champagne yeast is probably fine, follow the specific instructions for starting that yeast though.
Thank you for your excellent videos :)
I have started my first batch of mead today following your instructions.
Just wondered why do you have to heat the honey?
Awright! Just finished my batch. Looks exactly like epic's I'm pleased. Going to check it every few hours and see if it starts bubbling!
Question:
I keep my house at 87 degrees. Does anyone know if this will this be too hot for it while it's fermenting and kill the yeast, or will the heat just help it?
Okay, I finally made this recipe today, however, I made a few minor adjustments:
1. Instead of 4 cups honey, I only had a 44 oz jar, so I used black strap molasses for the other 4 oz. I read someone else's blog that did that and it made the mead darker but it worked.
2. I added an orange like you did, but I also added a sliced up pear. I also added a pint jar of pear butter we had made ourselves.
I guess I'll find out!
Awesome video, learned a lot for making my first batch! But question, may sound stupid but after racking do the oranges dissolve and become mushy so you can just rinse it out or do they stay firm? What's the best way to clean all the gunk out of your carboy?
they do sell carboy carriers, its a cloth thing you wrap around the jug, has handles.
Thanks for the video. I made two batches of mead, one with the oranges, and one with peaches. The only thing I did different was that I used regular bread yeast instead of the lalvin. But, to my surprise, it turned out to ferment completely and they are both very good, strong, but good.
The batch of peach turned out better than the orange, to my opinion. The orange turned out to be tart and very acidy, which is not quite to my liking, but the peach has a much smoother and just slightly sweete
thanks. Pretty good ideas!
I did this recipe 4 days ago and I am very happy with the results so far, it is possible to see lots of bubbles and it looks nice, much better than my previous attempt. Thank you.
I just have a question: in the first 2 days the smell was very good, but today I noticed a more "sharp" smell, as if the orange was becoming rotten or something. Is this normal?
back in after boiling. That was about a month ago, now I've tasted a little of it. It tastes sooo bitter. As I'm new to this, I wanted to know if i should just throw it away and try again or if I should add some sugar or honey and hope for the best? Thanks for any help you can offer me. I really appreciate you teaching me how to make this.
Will do thanks for the help! Appreciate it. If this messes up, I will follow your recipe exactly next time. If the smell persists do you recommend trashing the batch?
looks brilliant. going to try your "cheats" mead method on your website using just the gallon bottle as the carbour. as my first batch test
Thanks for this recipe! It's easy. My first batch ever has been fermenting in the basement for a couple weeks, and so far so good! Can't wait to drink it.
How long do you think I should let it age?
@mikalwilliams You can use whole or you can juice it. Typically I freeze them then crush them. It breaks up the molecules and releases the flavors. Have fun!!