Making Mead Part 1

[backyardsounds]

"MORE HONEY!!!" Says the mead maker.

[dooposaur]

what is music, please?

[ivankinsman]

Excellent video - very well laid out and very clear. May give this a go ourselves...

[nectarineblue]

very informative, and I really enjoyed the classic music to go with it. well presented.

thanks for sharing...

[bowow0807]

hehehe just made some mead must today had a .9 to1 gal batch of Dwójniak mead. it is a honey to water ratio of 1:1, at an SG of 1.175 I used Lalvin K1-V1116 yeast 18% alcohol tolerance 1/4 tsp DAP and 1/4 tsp yeast nutrient will add 1/8 tsp of both in 24-48 hours and again sometime later in the week

[chefcolby1]

why the bee pollen

[Nightrain80]

@chefcolby1  as a nutrient maybe...

[FALpwn]

is that the handle of an old craftsman screwdriver?

[Nightrain80]

Since it is an ancient wine, what people were using instead of hydrometer? They just knew mesurament?

[michiganshooter]

@Nightrain80 Maybe they had a recipe like "3 ram's horns of water, 1 of honey, boil in a goat's intestine until you get drunk" ....?

[MathPoke]

@Nightrain80 I saw one recipe where they said you added the honey until an egg floated to a certain depth. Pretty ingenious to me.

[TheGreg1516]

Are these US or imperial gallons? sorry to be awkward :)

[michiganshooter]

@TheGreg1516 USA

[MrGamerman001]

@michiganshooter firmentation time for one gallon of water and one jar of honey should take how long?

[Loredannon]

Amazing video, thank you for posting!

[ZiggyTrek]

Love the Craftsman spatula! 

[murray821]

where do you get those nice big jugs of honey

[carcano38]

15 lbs of honey for 5gals of water ? I've made mead and what I've learned is that that will be so sweet the only way of using this will be as a sweetener in coffee. As a person who's just started making this one picks stuff up quick and this is the wrong way, maybe not for everyone. If you sit around drinking many cans of hershey syrup at one time then you might like this.

[Adol666]

@carcano38 Thats not true at all. He's using a wine yeast which will ferment out most if not all the sugar. Leaving a semi sweet to dry wine. 3lb of honey per gallon is pretty standard fvor mead. You need to go read a book on the subject

[dthompson7373]

@carcano38 Actually 15lbs of honey to 5 gallons of water will make a mildly sweet mead. In fact that is a pretty standard recipe among the mead lovers. A good book would be the "compleat mead maker." And before any grammar police pull me over I realize "complete" is spelled wrong. They use the old english spelling of the word

[MrByronio]

I think that a pound of fermentable raises it 1%, so you know if it's at 8% and you add a quart of honey, it's going to be 11%, since a quart of honey is 3 pounds. That's easier than the hydrometer.

[Growley86]

Where can you buy pollen like that?

[Adol666]

@Growley86 You local health food all natural store stould have it

[Growley86]

Where can you buy pollen like that?

[JohannVF]

What's with the pollen? Never seen that used in mead production before...

[Adol666]

@JohannVF Instead of using yeast nutrient he uses bee pollen which contains all amino acids, vitimins proteins etc. In fact a human could live on nothing but bee pollen and water as long as you had some sort of fiber. Bee pollen really is wonderful stuff

[UtilitasNL]

My mead fermenting for a couple of days in the fermenting bucket, but i don't have a hydrometer. In the beginning it was bubbling like crazy, and now something like 1 bubble in 2 or 3 seconds. does anyone has a bit of a guideline when to rack it for the first time? thanks!

[TheCville812]

I never see anyone boil the wort? What are the pros and cons?

[Adol666]

@TheCville812 In winemaking its called the Must in beer wort. Anyways when making wine you dont need to boil the must. In beer you need to boil cuz Grains are very easy for bacteria to Grow. Wine Not so much as Bacteria hate acidic enviroments and with wine your working with higher Alcohol % 12% and above which kills most all bacteria. The only time I boil in wine making is I will take a Gallon of water and boil it and add my sugar as its easyer to dissolve in hot water

[trichinosis333]

@TheCville812 boiling honey isnt really necessary & could strip some of the flavor/aroma. heating honey to ~100 will make it pour/dissolve easier

[meadmiester]

Wow,i've done that before. I though yeast should be pitched at 68f to 75F i've never seen it done at 100F. guess if it works for rehydrating. I for one just sprinkle my yeast right on top of the mixture heard it lets it get more air before falling to the bottom.

[mbcyclery]

using metal to stir in that fashioned has a potential to scratch the bucket thereby making it more difficult to ensure it is sanitized prior.

[britelite2657]

that amount of honey in rip off britain would cost too much

[lonewolf7770]

it helps if the spoon or what ever you mix with if it has slots and warm water to mix with also

[captianusa]

Where is part 2 ?

[TAGSONOFSETH]

that yest isn't good for mead, try the wyeast lab sweet or dry, then tell me

[Adol666]

@TAGSONOFSETH Cote des Blancs is just fine for making mead

[alerick68]

where is the second part?