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“Zero Waste” Mead
Do you find yourself in excess of fruits and juices that are lingering around your fridge or freezer? Summertime gives us a bounty in fresh fruit sales, and sometimes I find myself purchasing more than I can eat. Don’t think you’ll get around to finishing that container of blueberries? How about those browning bananas? Throw…
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Blackberry Blackcurrant Mead
Blackberries and Blackcurrants are a combo that most certainly works together, it just requires the correct balance of the two to be successful. The base was made using juice concentrates and water. Mistakes were made and blackcurrant still eludes me. I believe I have found the solution though, and that is to only add it…
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Tamarind Hibiscus Cinnamon Orange Mead
This was a fun experiment that had pretty satisfying results. Something to note after messing with tamarind, is that it is very high in tartaric acid, and hibiscus has an acidic taste as well. This mead was difficult to ground, and in fact, the cinnamon, vanilla and oak really didn’t make much impact. I do…
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Blackberry Apple Almond Mead
Blackberry Apple Almond is a delightful combination! I 100% recommend trying this mead, and even got props from other professional mead-makers on the quality of flavor and lack of ethanol heat. Feel free to play with ingredient amounts and the type of honey used. I highly recommend a yeast that performs well with dark fruits…
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Q&A With a Fermentation Teacher
Noelle answers some questions provided by viewers of my channel, a must see for newer brewers especially (though even if you’ve been at it a while, you may learn something new, I know I did!)
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Triple Goddess Mead // Red Concord Pomegranate & Maple Syrup
In collaboration with Derica from City Steading Brews and Stefanie from Making Pour Decisions, we each made a Triple Goddess inspired mead. Derica got Maiden, Stephanie got Mother, and I got Crone. I was more than happy (I think I even volunteered) to make a Crone inspired mead – aka a mead inspired by Fall…
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Strawberry Lemon Session Mead
This is such a quick and easy mead to make, all you need is a keg to force carbonate and you’re set! Of course this can be amended, simply make this a dry mead and bottle carbonate. Recipe:1/2 packet Lalvin EC1118 yeast1 tsp Lemon Peel1 lb Lemon Blossom honeyGoferm & FermaidO following TOSNAOptional: Opti-White Secondary:Racked…
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Strawberry Vol 2
This video went completely viral and has over 80k views! A simplified 3.0 version will be coming in the future as this video felt like a bit of a mess to me. For one thing, I was switching from doing a multi-video to single video format for my recipes. There are a couple of these…
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Fig, Pear, & Almond Mead
Can you make mead with nuts? This is a question that’s debated on in many forums across the internet regarding mead, and the answer is YES. The reason it’s such a hot topic is, if you ferment with nuts, the mead can turn rancid due to oil. Used in secondary, nut oil will leave a…
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Mango Chili Mead
This recipe is based off of the “Chili Mango” in “Big Book of Mead Recipes” by Robert Ratliff. I did not 100% follow this recipe – due to the fact that he uses stabilizers to halt fermentation instead of allowing fermentation to fully run its course. Yeast will clean up after themselves, so it’s really…
Faewood Mead
Exploring flavors one home brew at a time through mead, beer, and cider experimentation.