How to make Valheim's Tasty Mead - easy at home recipe

[@mikemartinson2727]

Tried this recipe and it's turned into my absolute favorite recipe

[@PlastiForge]

Can’t wait to try mine.

[@eddy_with_a_y]

So smart, guaranteed to be one of your most viewed videos. I’d bet on it! Hopefully leading to the appreciation you deserve!

[@DointheMost]

Wow, thank you! I really enjoyed putting this one together.

[@nizvkfb7vsbvrsct723]

I have a feeling this video might blow up

[@mjanke28]

I really like the choice to go over all the steps in more detail and linking the Beginner Mead Making vid in assumption there will be new brewers coming from the game. Bravo

[@DointheMost]

Thanks! I had some folks look over this one to help make sure we hit a lot of the basics. :)

[@javierchirinos28]

Love it, let's get more gamers in the hobby

[@DointheMost]

For sure!

[@imududeplaynududedisguisedasa-]

Gamer here. Been brewing a while! Got wines and mead fermenting as i type. I play Valheim too! 🤣🤙...with Amon Amarth in on pandora🤘

[@Rannos22]

I found Townsend's from the pemmican in RimWorld so hopefully people find mead this way

[@joshlego4775]

How much fermaid did you add? you were not specific

[@PHMHarpGuitars]

I would like to see you take a swing at some Honningbrew mead from skyrim

[@duayinepu2103]

I love all of the 4 Elder scrolls meads

[@DointheMost]

I’ve seen a lot of recipes, and I’ve seen the ones from the cookbook. I would probably want to roll my own if I did them. :)

[@nittygrittykitchen]

Excellent video with good overall info for newbs.

[@crowjr2]

Great video ... may try that one this weekend!

[@DointheMost]

Hope you enjoy!

[@Brandon-jw5cv]

Seriously not even joking...I was playing Valheim while this video came up

[@DointheMost]

Coincidence...or CONSPIRACY?

[@joenefflen845]

Thanks for the idea about erythritol. It doesn't seem to be well covered as a way to back sweeten. I'm trying some out now.

[@babony5]

I was playing Valheim and wandered “is it really that easy to brew mead?” Well, I got a simple (water, honey, yeast) fermenting now, will be moving it to secondary fermentation in a week, and then I’ll be taking a crack at this raspberry and blueberry mead. Thanks for video, I’ll be getting some yeast nutrients to help the next batch out.

[@Indian0Lore]

Hey, it’s been a year. How did it turn out?

[@babony5]

@@Indian0Lore tried it twice. the raspberries made up most of the flavor of the first one and it went down fast. 2nd batch didn't have a strong fermentation, mostly tasted like fruit juice.

[@jackbussen7924]

How much fermaid-o do you add?

[@Regaleus]

This looks Delicious and simple! I just made a 5 gallon blue berry, black berry, and cherry mead, its gonna sit on the berries for 2 weeks. looking at a 15% abv

[@DointheMost]

Gonna oak it? Oak and berry blend is so good.

[@Regaleus]

@@DointheMost i got charred oak chips!

[@averagebars8867]

Don’t know if he said this in the video, but what did the ABV end up being?

[@DointheMost]

I showed it on screen but it was quick - approx 5.25% ABV. Probably a touch higher due to the fruit sugars.

[@averagebars8867]

@@DointheMost Awesome, thanks for the reply! Love the channel

[@imududeplaynududedisguisedasa-]

Man next time add 2 1/2lbs honey per gallon in that bitch with some champagne yeast. Get that ABV up. Drink like a viking!

[@vandorn50]

You can, of course, sweeten with fermentable sugars, use one plastic bottle, check it daily for firmness, then pasteurize the bottles and they won't explode. I can always taste artificial and non-sugar sweeteners, so that's the way for me. Or wait until the yeast are completely done and back sweeten then.

[@jharrison18]

How much fermaid o do you put in?

[@Nestlethehobgoblin]

I'm in the process of coming up with a dark souls inspired Estus flask mead... game inspired brews are just fun

[@OurKingdomIsNotOfThisWorld]

Hey I like this channel brother! You got a new subscriber

[@nizvkfb7vsbvrsct723]

Im just about to finish my lemon-drop hydromel and this is next!

[@DointheMost]

Nice! I was honestly surprised at how lovely this turned out!

[@josechavez5467]

at work haven’t watched it yet...but you get a 👍🏼!

[@DointheMost]

Hope you like it!

[@josechavez5467]

@@DointheMost great video...love the shirt!

[@lukecope4212]

Little late to the party, but what were those little things you dropped into the bottles for additional sugars so it could carbonate?

[@sunbro.solaire2965]

How many days does the fermentation take

[@deadtotheworld00]

In the video he said fermentation was about 4 days, 2days of cold crash and several days for bottle conditioning

[@Jesters-Jinx]

When's the next Valheim recipe!? Loved this one! 🍷🍾🍹

[@Indian0Lore]

Find me a frozen gland for the frost resistance mead.

[@Funpants94]

I love how many hydromels you have on your channel. Do you think there would be any adverse effects if the OG was raised to a 1.050 with a little extra honey, leaving everything else as is?

[@TheWalkingDude27]

That would probably be fine, it is a marginal increase. But maybe don't sweeten when you bottle prime?

[@sweetchillisourcream4634]

how much yeast and nutrients do you add?

[@0oJAMBIo0]

Can you double this batch in the same bucket? i have a 6 gallon that could handle it but was wondering if doubling the honey would affect the brewing process?

[@crowjr2]

Any concerns with sanitizing the fruit addition? Would it work to puree/ boil the fruit beforehand, or would that ruin things?

[@DointheMost]

Depending on what I’m making or how I’m feeling at the time I might give my fruit a dip in starsan before brewing. But i’ve used a lot of raw fruit in the past and have never had an infection issue. Just make sure to keep the cap punched down. I would never boil fruit for mead or wine, and puréeing is only going to make racking a real pain.

[@crowjr2]

@@DointheMost Excellent! Thanks for the advice. Hope this one gets you a zillion views.

[@VinnyBagODoughnuts]

I can't get those buckets to seal, but they seem to work OK. 🙂

[@DointheMost]

Fair, they could use a rubber gasket in the lid. But for primary, I rarely worry about seals. Thankfully that CO2 is a brew saver!

[@VinnyBagODoughnuts]

@@DointheMost Thats what a guy at work and I were discussing. We've seen you do the "paper towel/glass trick" and figured that it would be just fine for primary. 😆

[@vincentlabruzzo5368]

Do you have a kegging system?? And if you don't, if you did would you still bottle carbonate and use erythritol?

[@claclarolo1]

If you dont have a big enough fridge to cold crash, do you just leave it longer to clear instead?

[@l0tus4life]

Awesome

[@DointheMost]

Thanks for watching!

[@Thomas-cc1lj]

I circled back to this one after the latest Palette Expander episode. This sounded good at first viewing, but hearing MMM and you both rave about how good it was I had to try it. Instead I started 3 version this weekend. First used 1/2 lb raspberry, 1/2 lb blueberry, and 1/2 lb blackberry with everything else following the recipe. Second was 1 1/2 lbs of strawberries per my wife's request, adding 1/8 tsp grape tannin as this one is missing the skins of the main recipe's berries. Lastly is 1 lb mango, 1/2 lb pineapple, also with 1/8 tsp tannin and used Cotes de Blanc yeast. Hopefully in a month I can get back to you on the results. Just love the quick summer fruit drink idea.

[@Thomas-cc1lj]

Forgot to add that in the mango I will be adding a vodka washed (two 24 hour seperate soaks in vodka to mello the heat) habeneros for 24 hours mid cold crash.

[@lesowen4864]

Can you please tell me the temperature of the water you use please..

[@Thomas-cc1lj]

@@lesowen4864 I always use room temp bottled spring water. So normally 68-74 depending on the time of year.

[@panagos302]

When bottle conditioning with the carbon tablets, do the bottles need to be refrigerated or left at room temperature?

[@MissouriFishingWarrior]

Getting valheim in 2 days as well as in a month or two I’ll be brewing my own mead 🤘🏻🤘🏻ima have to try this!!

[@spanthrax]

Wouldn't adding erythritol after the bottles are filled create a headspace issue for carbonating?

[@kdh06004]

So popping off the lid to punch the fruit cap down doesn’t cause oxidation???

[@spikelove9533]

This sounds yummy, but I'm leary. If my stamana gets raised 300% I see serrios life altering injury possibly happening 🤕

[@DointheMost]

Haha! I’m with ya

[@19AKS58]

Could you use LACTOSE to add sweetness?

[@marcmiddleton2277]

If I wanted to use Blackberries or Black Raspberries would blueberries still work or drop the blueberries all together?

[@lukastojanovic8551]

Could you use a white wine yeast or kveik in this brew?

[@ericpriebe]

Assuming you stabilize, back sweeten and keg, how sweet is the final product or what would the final gravity be/would have been if using a different back sweetener?

[@DointheMost]

It’s just a hair shy of dry. I didn’t measure gravity since I used erythritol, but I probably wouldn’t put it over 1.01 in backsweetening.

[@bushhippi]

@@DointheMost Did you stabilize this? how would that work? killed yeast wont carbonate the sugar tab you added right? Please explain this for me I really want to start carbonate some of my mead's...the way you just demonstrated.

[@DointheMost]

@@bushhippi This was not stabilized. You can only carbonate a stabilized brew with a kegging setup.

[@bushhippi]

@@DointheMost Thank you for your swift reply, perfectly logical....Thanks!

[@imududeplaynududedisguisedasa-]

Back sweeten with Xylitol, its an unfermentable sugar 😉👌 won't continue to ferment.

[@vicenteespinoza8521]

can I use Red Star Premier Blanc Champagne yeast for this recipe? where I live is hard to find wine yeast and this is the only yeast I could find :(

[@nicholashess5977]

Does erythritol taste like artificial sugars that are found in diet drinks?

[@DointheMost]

Just plain, it tastes like sugar with a slight cooling sensation on the tongue. In meads, I would very likely not be able to identify the erythritol version in an A/B test. It definitely does not taste like stevia, sucralose, or saccharin.

[@AdamPerkinsOneAndOnly]

@@DointheMostYou should do a video for a fruited hydromel stabilized, force carbonated, and backsweetened with honey showing the option to bottle from keg using something like a Blichmann Beer Gun. There aren't a lot of force carb mead video resources.

[@DointheMost]

@@AdamPerkinsOneAndOnly I’ve been going back-and-forth on whether or not I want to buy a beer gun. I know I should, but it’s a big investment and I’d have to get a new regulator to go with it. But you’re right, it’s not something talked about much.

[@sailedhaddock]

Where did you get your shirt?

[@DointheMost]

The bee shirt? I found it on r/mead :)

[@sailedhaddock]

@@DointheMost thanks I'll have to have a look

[@scottfree4935]

Can you make strawberry wine from frozen strawberry daiquiri mix?

[@thesadsadtruth4195]

Would you make an acid blend for this? Or is the tart/acid enough?

[@joshturner4741]

You should try a 2:1 ratio.

[@DointheMost]

For a stronger mead?

[@joshturner4741]

@@DointheMost yes

[@jkmessina1]

Does the honey have to be pasteurized?

[@philsentry1745]

When he said "pinch it off" I grimaced.

[@ftospark1389]

How long do you need to let it age

[@HisVirusness]

There's a lot of mead appreciation in video games nowadays, it seems.

[@DointheMost]

One has to wonder if it's helping elevate mead back into the public eye.

[@HisVirusness]

@@DointheMost Next stop: Television and movies.

[@AdamPerkinsOneAndOnly]

Unfortunately, only because it's all viking themed. Don't get me started on vikings...

[@nv3154]

@@DointheMost AC Valhalla got me curious! Now I’m here with probably wayyyy more invested in it than I thought 😂

[@Megamush707]

When you say gallon do you mean 3785.4 ml as I am in the uk a gallon is about 4500ml

[@meatfireeat1311]

How many days did you let it ferment? I thought I heard you say just a few days. I thought it takes 3-6 weeks to ferment mead. I am new to all this just trying to see.

[@nicklancaster3190]

When adding the Erythritol, do you stir or shake the bottles in some way or let it dissolve on its own? Never used Erythritol before, but am going to based on your success with it.

[@PlastiForge]

Pro tip, just did this. Mix the honey and water first. Also maybe take the gravity now so the berries don’t clog up your turkey baster. Also no mention of fermaid O, I guesstimated 2g.

[@johno7617]

Um... all mead is tasty. I wil start making my mead in a caldron

[@DointheMost]

Truth!

[@michaelparham1328]

So I had half a jug of crystallized honey. I knew this wasn't a big deal, I just needed to warm it up, and it would be fine. But I foolishly just added a cup or 2 of really hot water to the jug. So now I'm worried I compromised the stability of the honey. I also didn't get all the chunks melted, but I'll worry about that once I've solved this problem. Is there a reliable test to know if I've spoiled my honey?

[@jackiemferland]

Hey there! I just made this as my first mead ever and am cold crashing at the moment. It tastes and smells AMAZING as is, but I can't wait to have it sparkling. Question- when you add the erythritol, do you invert the capped bottle to mix? Or do you just leave it as is, and it will dissolve in the solution?

[@theastronomer5800]

You don't need to mix but can. The yeast will get to the sugars :)

[@ianbaker2786]

Old video, but maybe I could get some help. I made a mead similar to this before seeing this video, but mine tastes like cough syrup. Any ideas what may have gone wrong? I used more honey, so ended up around 11% ABV with a FG at 1.030. Could it have oxidized? It doesn't have that acidic taste like vinegar, just very bitter despite the high FG. Thanks!

[@mitchspurlock3626]

Can you make a bbq sauce mead, would be good for cooking. PS awesome vid and recipe

[@DointheMost]

Great suggestion! I have another mead+food recipe I'm working on too!

[@michieldesmet9403]

@@DointheMost bqq sauce as a wildcard in brewslab...

[@DointheMost]

@@michieldesmet9403 👀

[@captainbashir5174]

Why the artificial sugar?

[@DointheMost]

It’s not artificial - it’s a plant-based compound called a sugar alcohol. Yeast cannot eat it, so the brew remains sweet. If using a fermentable sugar like glucose/sucrose/fructose the yeast will eat it and you’ll be back at square one. Or worse, have exploding bottles.

[@captainbashir5174]

@@DointheMost isin't that the kind of sugar that is usually used in atkins or other low carb chocolate? Does it taste like regular sugar? I've made bottle bombs before, lol. Not fun when you have two cases of bottles of cider explode in the basement. What a mess.

[@DointheMost]

@@captainbashir5174 Yeah my understanding is that it’s keto/diabetic friendly. In drinks I can’t taste the difference between erythritol and cane sugar. It seems to be the best sugar replacement that I have found so far, though some people recommend allulose.

[@captainbashir5174]

@@DointheMost Thanks! I may give it a try in something not so laborious first like a lemonade and if I can't tell the difference try it out in something like this.

[@donnybilbo8006]

Mmm gamer mead!

[@DointheMost]

Gamer fuel - that makes your skill gradually worse 😂

[@donnybilbo8006]

Oh, for sure! 😂

[@jasonmoore3980]

Did you add the whole packet of yeast for that small batch?

[@DointheMost]

Yep. I do that with small batches generally. I am typically not going to bother with storing partial sachets of yeast unless I am brewing two small batches around the same time.

[@jasonmoore3980]

@@DointheMost I didn’t know this was allowed. I’m doing this going further!!

[@DointheMost]

@@jasonmoore3980 oh yeah it definitely won’t hurt anything!

[@hrnekbezucha]

"Yeast requires a good diet making alcohol for you" [laughs in bread yeast kilju]

[@AndyB450]

Skyrim meads pls :)

[@DointheMost]

I’ll see what I can do!

[@cibdizzy]

I don't have patience. Can I buy this mead in Canada

[@ki4clz]

...I found you... Horray!

[@briant6669]

Since they put it in a Caldron it should be a bochet.

[@jamesthomas8481]

Using that conversion table (10 : 1 / 5 : 0.5) makes me wonder if there maybe some validity to the rest of the Valheim recipes. *NOTE* The "Game" doesn't need to state don't try this at home before starting the adventure of slaying, crafting & brewing. That being said may need to proceed with caution through these recipes. LoL

[@orinmayer1276]

Another gamer here but RPGs and Boardgames

[@DointheMost]

This comment makes me want to replay Earthbound.

[@orinmayer1276]

@@DointheMost I do more old school games. D&D, CoC, Traveler and of course Board games. But I do occasionally do computer.

[@DointheMost]

@@orinmayer1276 I was trying to get into D&D right as the pandemic started. Now I have these dice and books and no way to play. Blergh.

[@orinmayer1276]

@@DointheMost I run online via either Roll20.net or Fantasy Grounds. Both have search engines to find games to join.

[@orinmayer1276]

Nice thing about roll20 is you can join for free.

[@dutchomatic]

I bet Voss Kveik would do it in 48hrs.....6% session mead of this would be nice.

[@DointheMost]

Yes!

[@mikaelsolheim]

syphoning has nothing to do with "gravity", its called density

[@wyattames6785]

Ahem, in the game you only get six bottles🧐

[@AM2PMReviews]

Is Go-Firm a gimmick? I got some. I guess it might help but I dont see people using it often.

[@bigjonsfunhouse]

What’s a good way to make it more stronger? Want a good drunk off jt after the 7 or 8th glass

[@1DJSkittles]

How would you male this alcohol free?