Easy Home Brewing Mead (Honey Wine) - Part I

Mead is a wine made from primarily honey. Adding fruit to the mead can add great flavours, rendering it what is called, "Melomel". This is my first attempt at making mead. Thanks to Hogedruk for providing the honey used in this batch. I was also inspired by immolateus to use oranges and raspberries. Mead takes quite a long time to make. I will be documenting all the steps along the way, and possibly by the fall, we might be able to finally give it a whirl.

[matthewleonard]

Thanks Mate from Australia here and as always the videos are so informative. I do apologize but I was drinking and watched your bloopers and spat a mouthful of beer everywhere after you put your hand on the hot plate. Now that would be something I would do.

[jamesjamers]

Thanks for the video! You're likeable and a good teacher. I enjoyed watching this.

[MrNormalityisahoax]

These videos are so good! Thanks Craig!

[voltronsupremeFood]

On most five gallon batches of wine i make I add 8oz of orange juice, wont affect the taste but it helps prevent the flatness you can get for not using acid blend. so orange juice is a nice alternative to acid blend just as simmered raisain in water is a nice yeast nutrient.

[jadedhero]

I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but when you make a mead always make sure to get honey without preservatives in it. The preservatives can sometimes kill the yeast and can also give your mead a strange taste. Just a heads up!

[LongDogBrew]

Great video as always Craig, especially the bloopers! I look forward to hearing how it comes out. Cheers!

[SuperPablo]

Great Mead video Craig!, I am brewing a sweet mead. it's been in. the secondary fro 4 months. I will be adding more honey to it to sweeten it up. I am thinking of using have of my batch to make a sparling mead them bottle the rest in wine bottles.

Take care and cheers....Paul from Minneapolis.

[StreetMachine]

"When I transfer to second berry" - Love it Craig

[TIYX]

Wow I always just sliced each orange into 4 peaces and put it in the fermenter peels and all, you get a nice zesty flavor from the peels.

[MegaMackproductions]

hi I liked your video thanks for posting it, if you don't have a juicer, you can take one of the whisks from an electric hand mixer and use that as a hand juicer

[lilfear]

Hey Craig, You never showed or stated when you added the yeast nutrient. I just made one my self using your procedure and well added my nutrient to my fermenter then must then shook/stirred then yeast shook/stirred air lock. Hope it turns out. CHEERS!!!

[JanBorden]

Hey, Thanks for the video....good by the way...new to winery and like the idea of

[jakeanddar]

Great video Craig, I would love to try this one day, Never had it before, Cheers!

[absyntheaddikt]

hey man, as a mead maker, dont use regular bread yeast. either use Lalvin D-47 but be sure to use a supplement. or alternatively you can use a normal champagne yeast such as Lalvin EC-1118. sorry i'm not craig :)

[Excrucibo]

Great video! I look forward to following this.
About how long do you plan to keep it in the secondary to age?

[srhrings]

Hey Craig I started my bochet mead last night pitches re yeast and everything just have to post the next video

[sammyrussell]

Is it safe to leave all that head space in the carboy?

[simonisai]

hello craig i am a big fan of yours I am in mexico and have been making some of the brews and following your channel, with this one can I use regular bread yeast?? if so how much would you say to put in it for 4 us gallons... thank you

[SudsY]

Would you warm the frozen berries up to room temp then add? I started a mead on Dec 29th and would like to add something to it soon. A 1 gallon batch meant for next Christmas...maybe we can do a mead swap??

[ASRaithe]

@Lillianbini follow the directions. Typically 10g is what you'll need at that volume.