How to make BOOZY Butter Beer | Simple homebrew recipe for butterscotch session mead

This session mead recipe is ALL about the bochet (caramelized honey) and all about the interplay of other sugars and how they are treated. A good-tasting honey is critical to this mead's success. At a low ABV riding a bit above 5%, this crisp, refreshing hydromel mead is perfect for summer sipping. Great either bottle condition or on draft. Why not home brew one right now? It can be ready in just over a month if kegged. In this video we show you how to make mead, but unlike a traditional mead this is a light and crushable drink more akin to a butterscotch-flavored or hard soda than a big, sturdy traditional mead. We've brewed this recipe several times, and it is now a trusted winner! 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.

0:00 Intro
2:49 The Recipe
4:56 The Process
9:34 A good deal on vanilla
10:30 Adding the vanilla
14:52 The Tasting
17:12 Flavor Chart

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Ingredients:
· Caramelized for one hour:
·· 5# honey
··1# sucrose (cane or beet sugar)
··4oz lactose

· Also for primary:
··1# dark Belgian candi sugar
··3g wine tannin
··Full five gallons water

· In secondary:
··5 vanilla beans (or 2 tablespoons vanilla extract)
··8oz Lactose
··8oz maltodextrin
··3# erythritol or honey (if stabilized or kept super cold)
··5g lactic acid
··1g citric acid

Recommended yeast:
· D47 or EC-1118

Carbonate to a minimum of 3 volumes up to 4 volumes with pressure-rated bottles. Aim for 4 volumes if kegged.

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[bybeezguepe]

If using standard beer bottles when bottle conditionning, I wouldn't go over 4Vol, they're not made to withstand that much pressure and can go boom (you can always use gueuze or champagne bottles, they can withstand more pressure)

[chaseyoungblood]

This is legitimately the most thorough and professional mead channel on youtube. You put so much thought into the video production, presentation of steps, repeatability, quality of sound/ video, presenting all concepts in a concise and thorough manner... etc etc. You're hard work really shines through on this one!

[Dogstickfetch]

I'm SO EXCITED about this brew! thank you so much for all your hard work on this! most people would have thrown in the towel after batch 3, or 4, probably. not you!!!!

[johnburke]

I love how fermaid-o stops stinky brews, but is itself impressively stinky.

Bravo on this work man! This is super impressive.

Thanks again for the super caution on bottle conditioning too. My friend got it stuck in my head by saying "The difference between bubbles and boom is planning" lol

[justincunningham]

I am just now sipping on my first batch of this mead and I am VERY impressed. Really beautiful flavour. I made the mistake of using erythritol and then force carbonating anyway, but it’s still delicious. I might make some minor tweaks next time, like not caramelising the sugars quite so dark, and adding a little more backsweetener, but these are just personal preference. Great recipe BC, thank you and well done!

[paulalarocca]

Top notch video. Again, thanks for all the hard work and dedication to perfecting this. I've been playing a HP video game for about the same amount of time you've been brewing this!! Anxious to give this a try and SOOOO glad you did this as a session mead. I prefer those in the mead world, primarily because you can go from pitching the yeast to pouring the brew in about a month!

[ignaciochipotle]

Unique brew. I like you guys are doing something different! Great content 👍👍👍

[EtherealPrelude]

Thanks for putting in all the legwork on this one. With the complexity of the recipe, I'm not surprised that this took 7 months to perfect. I'd love to give this one a try some day. Cheers

[mlotschek]

I've been brewing mead for about a year now and having a fantastic adventure... this recipe sounds amazing! I also need to try making your braggot recipe 😋

[twilli]

90’s... hot....
*cries in California central valley*
it’s supposed to be 115 for the next couple days.
Love the video!!

[rubducksu]

If you haven't subscribed yet, saying 'butterscotchy butterbeer beverage' three time fast deserves that sub! Great vid and good to know where to get quality vanilla

[mkmead]

Pretty cool, I’d probably try to do it with Meadowfoam honey on the backsweeten

[andrewcotton]

I can't wait to try this recipe. I have had a 5 gallon carboy set aside since your last post about it so that I could get started on it right away. I've been behind and watching videos and now I'm upset that I'm 2 weeks behind lol

[LantzBrauBrewery]

Outstanding video! This is definitely going to be more challenging than most of my brews, but I need to try it to drink alongside a Potter-marathon!

[kevinbutler]

I am making this tonight and couldn't be more excited! When I decided to get into mead making, this recipe was near the top of my list. Started with a high abv traditional, followed that with a skeeter pee on the old yeast and now I'm doing this one with a Belgian ale yeast to hopefully impart some banana cause I thought that would be nice.

[Coaltergeist]

Currently working through my first keg of this. It's so amazing. I'm going to head to the store to buy some more honey for batch 2 right now

[letswineaboutit]

Good work! This was a long video but I had no trouble watching to the end; very entertaining!

[baileyj]

Looks awesome! Looking forward to giving this one a try in the near future.

[becomingelduende]

So excited to try brewing this! Thank You!

[Benjo_games]

i've learned so much from this channel and now have a couple mead and cyser recipes that i can reliably recreate and enjoy very much. sadly, i think this beast is still beyond both my current skill set and equipment. great video though and thanks so much for all the good info you put out there!