Joe's Ancient Orange Mead Part 1 - Brewing - The Infamous (and Easy) Recipe To Make Mead At Home

[@ActsOfTheStreetPreachers]

I followed your instructions in the video and prepared this recipe. I can't wait to taste the outcome.

[@loranthegedus5646]

HAHA! Awesome video guys. I'm going to make some starting next week.

[@trevisfenwick6382]

If I'm going to make a double batch do I double up on everything including the yeast

[@ErickandDerrick]

No. Don't double up the yeast. Everything else, tho.

[@Funpants94]

Have you ever considered making a modern jaom, or a best practices jaom video? Wine yeast, nutrients, racking off lees, etc.?

[@ErickandDerrick]

Yep, we have a modern JAOM video!

[@TheKris2615]

Good vlog...thankyou guys. Quick question..did you guys use any peptic enzyme

[@ErickandDerrick]

Not this time. We don't use it very often, now that I think of it.

[@davidbattrick3690]

Got to love the 1/8ths!!!

[@ErickandDerrick]

My favorite bit!

[@WoodstockTBL]

what type of sanitizer are you using?

[@ErickandDerrick]

Star San is that brand we use. - Derrick

[@jcat5150]

So, just to be clear; I need to add a bunch of raisons to my cyser for nutrients, correct? :)

[@ErickandDerrick]

AAARGH! 🤣😂🤣 No raisins! 😉 Unless they are 'magic raisins'. It's a secret recipe...

[@jcat5150]

@@ErickandDerrick ...lol...After making some barely drinkable meads, I'm finally making truly good meads so I wouldn't do 'em like that! That said, I still have about 30lbs left of the 60+ pounds of good wildflower honey my wonderful daughter (who knows an apiarist) got me awhile back. I may sacrifice 3 or 4 pounds for a JAOM just for the hell of it one day CHEERS!

[@ErickandDerrick]

Happy Brewing! 😊

[@sammcevoy14]

I decided to make this recipe with JAOM kit off Amazon. I didn't want the fruit so I just went yeast honey and water. I don't think it's worked. Is this because the fruit acts as a nutrient for the yeast???

[@jsymoneguillory5563]

Why didn’t you just go with a regular mead making kit? Why don’t you think it worked?

[@sammcevoy14]

Because as a beginner I didn't really know what I was looking for regards the kit i chose. Particularly as the kit was advertised as a beginners mead making kit. You'd think the clue would be in the name. I think it hasn't worked as it didn't respond the way that the instructions predicted. But having spoken to other mead makers post this comment I heard fermentation can take a few days or more to take place. However, the instructions were very jovial and lacked a great deal of info that "beginners" would crucially need to know. On the plus side, I think I have managed to revive it by adding some clementines along with the spices listed in this video. I witnessed some bubbling through the airlock so I'm assuming fermentation is taking place. To summarise, I know nothing of brewing and this is my first attempt and I spent a good amount of money on the honey and the kit so I am keen to know that I haven't wasted said money.

[@jsymoneguillory5563]

@@sammcevoy14 oh! Nice! I was just curious but so happy to hear you may have potentially gotten a fix! There’s a couple of TikTok‘ers that have really good beginner videos. I’ll go find them and come back with their names. Good luck to you in the mean time 👏

[@GreenWitch1]

BC sent me over 👋🏼 from Hawaii

[@ErickandDerrick]

I'm a big fan of BC's, also! Thanks for checking us out! -Erick

[@eltorpedo67]

"Sanitation is key!" Then proceed to touch everything with unsanitized hands, throw additions all over unsantized surfaces...😂

[@stanleygrover2162]

Go Joe!

[@dreaththekid9263]

Sam, the King of Mead! (SamMakingMead) has sent me! Skal!

[@ErickandDerrick]

Awesome! Sam is a very good friend of mine! Maybe we'll do a collab video one day?

[@juliaharbeck774]

But, there is something about what raisins add to the mouth feel that you miss if it's not there, so not a nutrient but it helps make a nice finish. I also always chop my raisins and golden ones taste really good in the finished product also.

[@ErickandDerrick]

They do give a nice mouthfeel sometimes

[@matthewflexen9478]

Ok so raisins aren’t a nutrient. Are there things I can add besides powder nutrients that will do the job.

[@ErickandDerrick]

Powdered nutrients are your best option. Second best is boiled bread yeast (from Walmart - boil it for ten minutes to kill it and it becomes a nice nutrient substitute.) -Erick.

[@matthewflexen9478]

@@ErickandDerrick thank you. One question? Please. What is your option of Mangrove Jacks mead yeast. PS. You guys are way more fun than any of the other mead or meade brewing channels I watch.

[@matthewflexen9478]

Opinion* I really should spell check.

[@ErickandDerrick]

I've never used Mangrove, so I couldn't offer an opinion on it. What I do know is that my favorite way to make mead is to use a starter of wyeast 1388 and a proper nutrient schedule. You'll find more information about that in our traditional BOMM video. If liquid yeast isn't your thing, some good dry ones are qa23 for lower alcohol mead and ec1118 for higher alcohol meads - but you'll still need a good nutrient schedule. You've given me an idea, tho - maybe I could do a video about different yeasts! PS - We love hearing awesome feedback like this! Thankyou so much! -Erick

[@wva6809]

In eights? Weaklings! I always cut them in at least 64s to get all of the juicy nutrients out there.

[@ErickandDerrick]

I used to do 64ths, but I am often too drunk to count that high...

[@MissouriFishingWarrior]

This may sound weird but you sanitized the orange but why not the raisins, clove, and cinnamon? 😂 Jk,jk,jk. I’m going to make this exact recipe in a month!! So excited to try and make!!!

[@MissouriFishingWarrior]

To add, the yeast used is the “Active dry flieshmans yeast” right?

[@johnaustin8089]

I really advise not to buy honey from Wal-Mart. Most of their go at products and not honey but instead honey flavored corn syrup or ,more increasingly rice syrup from China. That being said it will still ferment but it will be more of a wine than a mead.

[@ErickandDerrick]

This is so true in 'proper' mead making. Walmart honey can barely even be called honey, lol. But in JOAM, it's fine, IMO.

[@duncemonkey14]

So if the ingredients only say honey on the back from one company or another how am I supposed to believe or trust one and not the one from Walmart??just because it's Walmart?? Unless you're going to the apiary and watching a honey come out hives yourself there's no way to actually guarantee what you're getting doesn't have corn syrup in it... regardless what store you buy it from you have to take the word of what's on the back of the bottle...

[@ErickandDerrick]

Have faith!

[@MAGACOPP]

If you are watching this make sure you get a wide mouth carboy for it. The Fermonster or Big Mouth Bubbler

[@ErickandDerrick]

I like the pressure fermenters from MoreBeer!

[@LailokenScathach]

Raisins getting no love. Yeast don't want those micro-nutrients like; potassium, copper, magnesium, Iron, proteins, carbohydrates, calcium....etc. Nah, they just ignore raisins for some weird reason. :D

[@ErickandDerrick]

I love raisins! Just not as nutrients, lol.

[@micahmann6967]

Yall are cool lol

[@ErickandDerrick]

Thank you!

[@terrycuyler5659]

Out side of making sure I sanitize I don't care what the so called rules are its my mead and I'll make it however I want. With that set aside I recwntly made a mead that is a riff on MT. Dew. 1ts 1 can frozen lemonade, 1 can frozen limeade, 1 can frozen orange juice 2 Oranges, 1 lemon, 1 lime and an Oleo Saccharum made of the peels and sugar that I added to the mead and will make later to back sweeten. I used champagne yeast. I call it Skeeter Pee Dew.

[@terrycuyler5659]

I've taken a taste it's quite dry and has a nice citrus tart taste.

[@ErickandDerrick]

I may have to try it one day!

[@bharatamarnani7879]

Will be using Himalayan raw wild forest honey collected from mountain cliffs and trees by traditional harvesting methods. with your method is it OK i also do not sanitize the MUST for bacteria's present in it.

[@ErickandDerrick]

I've never sanitized the honey. Undiluted honey isn't a very hospitable environment for microbe growth!

[@bharatamarnani7879]

@@ErickandDerrick thank you so much to clear my doubt's

[@bharatamarnani7879]

Can you share a basic recipe with minimal available ingredients at home

[@ErickandDerrick]

@@bharatamarnani7879 JAOM is pretty simple, but if you want the easiest of all, try this one - kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3mpnX6hidScesU. It's a hydromel (low alcohol mead). Out of every mead this one is the simplest - it's just 4 ingredients - honey, water, yeast, and nutrient! You can even make it simpler - use bread yeast! Get three packs of bread yeast. Boil two packs in water for about 20 minutes to kill it, then use it as nutrient. Pitch the other pack dry into the must! You won't get best results like this, but it'll get the job done! It won't turn out gross or anything. Alternatively, you could try a cyser! We haven't done a video about that, yet, but we will, soon! Cyser is mead and cider mixed together. Buy a gallon of PRESERVATIVE FREE apple juice and a couple pounds of honey, mix them together and add yeast and nutrient! You can even do this in the gallon jug that you bought the apple juice in, though you'll have to pour some of the juice out to fit the honey in. OK, I really want to do a video about this, now! Keep an eye out for it! If you are short on homebrewing equipment, check the description of any of our videos for the mead making kit from Home Brew Ohio. It's only $40 and it has EVERYTHING you need to make mead (in one gallon batches). That kit really is the best starting point for mead making. It even comes with some yeast and nutrients!

[@victorinesara9743]

All my meads are made this way lol

[@ErickandDerrick]

Sometimes the easy way is the best way!

[@iraph]

Remember to sanitise your oranges

[@ErickandDerrick]

Sanitation is key!

[@GreenWitch1]

I have never sanitized my fruit. Just a rinse with tap water.

[@ErickandDerrick]

I'm of the mind that I'd rather do too much sanitizing than not enough - I always wonder how many people's hands have been all over it before I get hold of it! I know lots and lots of folks who don't sanitize the fruit, tho - so I'm sure it's fine! 😊

[@captaincarl3644]

I think it should be pronounced "jayome"!

[@ErickandDerrick]

Or Joyame!

[@Tj-50mag]

OMG ugh...what did you guys watch a few mead making youtube videos and decide to do your own after an hour of googling stuff... amateurs..sorry but its true.

[@ErickandDerrick]

Yes, it's true! We are amateurs - every KZbinr that exists today began as an amateur - and we're no exception! Maybe one day, in a few years, we might actually start being good at this 😉. Until then we're just happy to have fun, push record, and then get too drunk to follow our script properly! Thanks for the awesome feedback! 😊 Even negative feedback helps us learn and improve! Could you point out some specific parts that you didn't like?

[@justthefactsmaam321]

@@ErickandDerrick you are so much nicer than I would be! It's why I can't have a KZbin channel. LOL

[@ErickandDerrick]

It always pays to be nice! 😊😊

[@fainnetworking271]

What are you using for sanitation?

[@ErickandDerrick]

StarSan