how to home brew mead (fermented honey} part one

[ov3rcl0cked]

Keep the jar open, yeast need oxygen and sugar to grow.

[VoodooIrons]

You should use a script, so you can stay in place. Your hard to follow jumping around from sentence to sentence .

[MikeofWyoming]

Can you imagine a freaking viking making this!!!! That's like my great great great grandchildren reading in a history book about the first man on the moon being a columbian coffee farmer. Seriously? They made this stuff in between killing priests and raping women...Then drank it from an unwashed goat horn....You know honey gathering was a chore too, There be plenty of swollen swedes wating to get drunk!

[LoadedDesperado]

@MikeofWyoming they first took mead for their own when they sacked Lindisfarn island in england. mead is over 40,000 years old first made in africa.

[pot4201000]

tern off your T.V dumbass

[pronto355]

@pot4201000 i'll 2nd that, very hard to concentrate on what he's saying

[SSJ3Mewtwo]

Turn

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[thundamc]

Add Stella!

[jcondruid07]

hey i was wondering do you know how to make the alcohol content stronger with mead

[BVargas78]

add some vodka to the mead, lol!

[sgtbeetlebailey]

the traditional viking way to do it was to freeze the mead and since water freezes before alcohol just pull out the chunks of ice and it will vastly inprove the content. its just not the recommended way.

[6sixpounder6]

thats pretty clever. personally i add more honey and use yeast with a higher alcohol tolerence, but your way would allow you to excede the alcoholk tolerance of the yeast. thanks!

[13R1CK4]

Try to raise the sugar content in the mash but you would have to find the right thing to use.

[KOkinshobi]

adding sugar?

[aznkriss133]

wats the yeast called? couldnt hear

[2008ChargerSXT]

For future videos, I would recommend turning off the television, or keeping it at a very low level. It is very distracting!

[mrbahrt]

I dont belive that the vikings in scandinavia had lemon and black tea when they lived... lol

[6sixpounder6]

no, but mead was pretty common throughout the rest of europe.

[fractal420]

Why do you start the yeast in lemon juice and zest? I would imagine the acidity would hamper the growth. Obviously it works though. Is there a spicific reason to use lemon?

[sframptonjp]

You do NOT need to heat the honey. You destroy the flavour profile by doing that. As long as you properly sanitize your equipment, add campden tablets to your solution to protect your batch from spoilage until the fermentation is underway, there is no need to "pasteurize" it.

[schteek77]

*Enter Random Shirtless Man*

[Gaia1986]

Good video! Pretty straight forward. But did you smoke just before this? :D

[tehbeermang]

Adding lemons and raisins to the yeast starter = introduction of wild yeasts and bacteria.

[EdmundSquid]

Why not use a wort chiller?

[120voltss]

could you just boil 16 pounds of the yeast to about a gallon of water. Then add it to the rest of the four gallons? there by the cooling process is cut down and you wouldn't have to use so much ice? Or does all the water need to be bolied. Maybe if it gets boiled in advanced... then let to cool as the rest is being made. Just curious.

[egautreaux]

"float to the bottom"

[jnmccra]

If you add water to the ice, it will cool off faster.

[Dreoilin]

What type of honey do you like, and have you tried other types of yeast?

[mrkclngn]

thanks for the comment i have used orange blossom tupelo and clover so far the next batch i make i am going to use blue berry honey i have used a few differnt types of yeast and i found that premier cuvee yeast is the best that i have found once again thanks for the comment mark