Lemon and Ginger mead - super simple recipe! 🍋🍷

[@dankturt8447]

I love how he’s filming in a cargo container while it’s raining. It’s so whimsical!

[@TheoWilton]

I’ve never made mead before and I’ve been looking for the right recipe for my first try. You, sir, have 100% sold me on this!

[@MrDeath9111]

He is like a skyrim character. its awesome.

[@dustymiller7758]

Never made mead, it's about time I had a go and this recipe looks like the one to get me started. Thanks for sharing.

[@ritchieveteran1495]

Looking forward to getting a cold in the winter now 👍👍👍👍 love your channel your a truly awesome man . I'm a veteran and suffer with PTSD and your channel keeps me chilled so thank you .

[@HappyHomestead]

Thank you :) Glad I can help a bit. I've served 12 years in the Army, and am still employed within the MOD - my message box is always open!

[@ritchieveteran1495]

@@HappyHomestead hi o really hope you and your beautiful family are ok ? Please don't listen to negative feedback from rude people . Your channel brings so much joy to thousands of people . Love and blessings to you and your family from Ritchie and Raven xx

[@ritchieveteran1495]

@@HappyHomestead hey brother I really hope you and your family are ok ? Your video's are fantastic and I connect with you because you like me are a veteran . Please let me and my wife Raven know you are all well ? Forget the haters and their negative feedback . You sir are a beautiful soul and your channel brings so much happiness . Love and blessings from Ritchie and Raven in Wales 🙂

[@HappyHomestead]

@@ritchieveteran1495 Many thanks - it's been a dire month for the family - long story, one that will be made public - very public once our legal team have taken action against the relevant parties. . . We have won the biggest battle, now time to tidy up :) Will be back to filming tomorrw :) Thanks for your kind words and message, people like us are never alone!

[@ritchieveteran1495]

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[@anthonyharrison9280]

Made a mead from four jars of the cheapest Aldi runny honey, wasn’t expecting it to be fantastic but it turned out wonderful. 👍

[@HappyHomestead]

Wonderful!

[@nblankensh]

Have made something similar. Can confirm it's tastiness! Good to have on hand in the colder months.

[@colinbrown4008]

Awesome as always. 👌🥃

[@MrScotchpie]

Blimey this sounds good. A panacea for all winter sniffs and coughs. I'll be making this soon, ready for the colder months. I have a mead on the go now. You have to love mead for its simplicity and flavour.

[@HappyHomestead]

Oh yes :) This is my go to heal all :)

[@brummiesteve3825]

Lovely..Defo gonna give this one a go

[@paulvinwebster]

Cant wait for the taste test video. I know its gonna be sublime :)

[@rebeccagharis-gallo8155]

Sounds fantastic and I will be mixing this up soon!

[@mitsujunkusha3026]

4:30 before work 🤫 🥰 OK I'll try that.

[@christineortmann359]

Where do you store all your wines? Sounds good, I’m working on a Rhubarb and cherry wine now. Love your videos. Cheers 🥂

[@HappyHomestead]

Mostly in the shipping container or the living room :) Where ever they seem to end up!

[@buddymc]

I agree with using the more affordable honey. I've made fantastic mead with big store honey.

[@ryanalbarado8617]

Is there any reason I shouldn't add the lemon to the ginger tea while its steeping? I tend to do this when making a ginger wine and I like how that comes out. Thanks in advance. I've learned so much from your videos.

[@davescearce799]

Speaking of meads, have you made a braggot? I recently got a bag of dry malt extract and added some to a batch of apple wine. (It's still slowly bubbling away, a month now after I started it.) With the DME that remains, I plan on starting a braggot (about 2 to 1 honey to malt extract).

[@edgarburlyman738]

I remember having some really good mead once and my imagination was like I was eight years old again, I was having dreams but I was still awake. I think I've got to use raw honey and wild yeast to make that kind of mead, and age it a long time, maybe in barrels.

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

I absolutely agree with you about fermenting cheap honey vs expensive honey. Honey is 80-90% pure sugar anyway. If I have a mead that requires back-sweetening, *then* I'll use a better quality honey for flavour. I made a juniper mead (your recipe, thank you very much!) that I back-sweetened with about 150g of pine/fir-tree honey. Much cheaper than using 2kg of it and more or less the same effect.

[@lifeeternal9823]

What a great flavor for mead. Have you ever used herbs with your fruit in any meads? I’ve seen some flavors like blueberry basil in stuff like Kombucha

[@GreenWitch1]

I use herbs in my meads

[@eliskull]

What’s a good general of thumb rule for a nice dry and high %

[@Sirwobblezz]

What's the role of temperature here? I'm in a hot country with AC that turns on and off. Beer is difficult - I thought mead might be a little better to try.

[@bobbyvogelgesang9467]

Hey james!!! Got a mead question im doin a gln. Batch banana and honey. Took a reading it was 1.158 4lb.honey 5lb. Banana boiled and strained.but within an hour or so it looks like it coagulated almost half the demijon of gel what it looks like.

[@HappyHomestead]

Bananas are pretty bad at thickening up like that - expect a fair amount of sediment to be thrown. . . replace with a honey solution and it'll be worth it

[@bobbyvogelgesang9467]

@@HappyHomestead oh ok so in secondary add a thinned honey to it to regain level right?

[@jasontheworldisyours]

Big like

[@stanleygrover2162]

Ginger mead, makes my arthritis in my feet 🦶 feel better!,

[@GreenWitch1]

I guess Ron was busy today 😜

[@HappyHomestead]

He's always so busy, and darting from project to project. Was hoping he would help, but he was admiring some cows.

[@GreenWitch1]

@@HappyHomestead 😂

[@elijahkaehler9369]

*ingredients needed* ginger, lemon, 3 lb of honey.... *continues to talk about 2 lb for a dry mead and 4 lb for a really sweet mead.... says he wants a medium sweet mead and is gonna use 1.5 lbs..... hope u like extremely dry meads Came here to find a good recipe for a lemon ginger mead but found a lot wrong with how you do stuff...

[@Gileseypops]

Couple of questions about this recipe: Just wondering if you need to worry about the lemon pips getting into the mix when you're squeezing the lemon? I hear they can spoil the taste. I've just sieved mine so I hope that wasn't crucial. :P Secondly, I sieved out the ginger tea into a sterilised pan and then mixed the honey into the ginger tea, before I added it into the demijohn, so that I could pour it into the jars of honey so that I could get everything out of them. Extra delicious honey. :) Would this method have any adverse effects? Or would the result end up the same? Thanks!