My First Mead Competition

Here it is! The video you've been asking about. I entered the Mead House's "Iron Bee" Competition this year and had a great time. The competition was a secret ingredient based competition where they send you a specific ingredient you have to use in your mead. This years was "Fenugreek Seeds" and I was very lost in the beginning on what to do with them. I'm excited to share this whole journey with you. This video is starts at the creation of the mead and leads all the way until the competition and results.
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The Recipe for this mead is:
3 Gallons of Water
8 Pounds of Honey
4 oz of Fenugreek Seeds (Made into Tea)
8 Pounds of Pears
Cilantro to taste
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[@ManMadeMead]

Skip 23:54 - 32:03 to avoid a repeated video segment. So sorry guys!

[@joeldysart5314]

You should've malted the seeds and ground them, then put them in whilst ground for primary fermentation. They'd settle at the bottom, but the oils, starch and tannins in the seeds would diffuse (like your tea did) but give a roasted, malted flavour profile to the mead

[@tux0beliver]

Another cat sighting!! Yesssss

[@dwadeweallin17]

I really appreciate you sharing your experience with the competition. I’m entering my first competitions this year, including the mead stampede! It’s always for friends and family to “like” my meads, especially since they are getting free booze. Getting this kind of feedback in invaluable.

[@ManMadeMead]

I'm excited for your entry!!

[@kjdevault]

Thank you for sharing your process and experience! This was great to watch! I’d say you did pretty great for your first competition. Part of the process is learning what judges are looking for. I love and appreciate your work!

[@ManMadeMead]

Thank you for watching!!

[@conradbo1]

Great video. Lots of fun to watch and I learned a lot. Thank you for uploading.

[@ManMadeMead]

I'm happy to share!

[@brooklyn4137]

I just started making mead!! I'm so excited and I've been binge watching your videos and gotten a lot of information. Thanks for that! So far we've made a Cyser (which turned out awesome) And we just started a traditional mead.

[@JeezumJurgie]

I have always wanted to try fenugreek in an Acerglyn.

[@buzzboop]

That sounds like alot of fun! Like drinking a salad.. I laughed because I have a mead I dubbed Stinky Feet Mead which everyone at work loved for some reason even after I warned them they will get a hint of dirty socks and athletes foot. It was very complex which started with honey and went down a road of spice, fruit and citrus and somewhere in the middle was a big WTF was that. Though if you read the flavor profiles of expensive $1000 bottles of wine its all pencil shavings, leather and dirt.. so wierd. I wish there was something local here like that. Another great vid I couldnt stop watching. Thanks for sharing!

[@jimjenkins7416]

I love using the Amoretti products in my home brew. I cant believe I never used it for my mead!

[@ManMadeMead]

It's so good!

[@johnburke8337]

I cook with fenugreek really often, so this is cool to see. I'd think it would do well in a bochet or something piney and citrusy, but that's just me.

[@ManMadeMead]

I definitely think it could be really good in a bochet!

[@timothyrichards5823]

Very cool. I love that you took on that challenge. Looks like the pectic enzyme worked. Good job man!!! Really cool getting the Amoretti flavorings as well. I’m looking forward to seeing how you choose to use those. I made a clover traditional and and racked onto Amoretti Blood Orange flavoring in secondary. In secondary now so, can’t wait to taste that in a month or so.

[@ManMadeMead]

Thank you so much! That sounds like it will be really interesting, I’ve used blood orange purée but that flavoring sounds like it will be even more successful!

[@dan-tv8kv]

fenugreek seeds... another thing to add to the list of foods I don't know about. I kinda think you went wrong with the cilantro. Stimulated the gag reflex first time I encountered it. guess its an acquired taste Maybe after you perfect your pear brew you should try a South American fruit called babaco. It looks like a ft long yellow bell pepper and is somewhere between pear and melon in flavor🤠

[@bcp5296d]

My take on that is drinking a salad=too much cilantro. Recipe seems good but maybe tone down the seed and cilantro notes a bit? Maybe make a tea with the cilantro and then add to taste? I dunno, seems fun though. Great to be able to learn along with you as always. I just made a 50% buckwheat trad yesterday.

[@pancakeflux]

Great coverage, thank you for sharing! I wonder if the “like drinking salad” comment came from a person who generally doesn’t like cilantro...? I understand that some people taste it differently than others. Kind of a love it or hate it thing. Good luck in the future!

[@ManMadeMead]

Possibly so! Thank you!

[@toaluasaleupolu7060]

Nice one 👍

[@ManMadeMead]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jsaucee1]

Congrats! FYI, it seems your video repeats a portion of your weighing out the honey for backsweetening.

[@ManMadeMead]

Gosh! Thanks for telling me!

[@dswem79]

Wish I was earlier to see this. PFC Mead (pear, fenegeek, cilantro) with like the army's private first class insignia and man made mead would have made for a gnarly bottle label.

[@CommonSense_01]

Good luck.

[@HashFace253]

I wonder about a fennel/anise bordering licorice mead. Fermented citrus is booboo but what about adding lemon balm or verbena or lemon grass

[@pauldacus4590]

22:50 Hopefully you used the cilantro stems in something else! Many chefs actually use only the stems in recipes, as they are much more intensely flavored. This mead sounds good!

[@prelawconrad]

Perhaps the salad like flavor came from the way some people taste cilantro, as earthy and soapy. Depending on the genetics of their tastebuds, you might just have gotten unlucky with that.

[@jsaucee1]

I agree Jason, taste is very personal. I work in a dining establishment where I am asked, what's good all the time. I always say, it depends on the type of foods you like.

[@rcox27cnmedu]

It's literally an enzyme some people are missing that makes it taste soapy

[@pauldacus4590]

23:56 & 32:08 seem to repeat.. go to 40:25 to skip the repeated part & watch the beard & mustache disappear! :-)

[@MrAcuta73]

I was gonna put some cilantro in my Thai mead...really rather glad I didn't now. LOL It's pretty strange tasting anyway. Need to bottle it and forget it exists for some number of months.

[@leenasindhi2048]

Hey bro 😊 hi 😊 it's said that if we mix some glycerin into mead it will give a good mouth feel and flavor to it and a full body as well is it true can i add glycerin into my mead?

[@KacyKelly]

What would happen if you sprouted them I wonder.

[@ManMadeMead]

I'm not sure!

[@sarahsfitmess26]

Sounds like an interesting flavor profile but I thought you’d want to check your editing it repeats back-sweetening and taste test

[@CoyoteRoseCreations]

Its the Feeheeheeeeney mead (think boy meets world, Eric greeting Mr feeney

[@nathanhassey4724]

Where do you get those 2g bucket lids with the seal?

[@ManMadeMead]

I got mine at my local brew shop! I think you might be able to get them online.

[@Psiclone]

How long was the process from when you received the fenugreek seeds to having your mead scored? (in days/months)

[@ManMadeMead]

Roughly like 5 months

[@Psiclone]

@@ManMadeMead Thanks! I've had trouble gauging how long things should take.

[@km-bo3zx]

What was the score of the winner?

[@ManMadeMead]

I believe the highest person scored a 40.

[@km-bo3zx]

Well, that puts things in more perspective! Not bad!

[@klibstar8197]

that yeast nutrient looks like its just salt

[@ManMadeMead]

It does! But DAP is supposed to look like that haha

[@klibstar8197]

@@ManMadeMead do you use nutrient in all your meads?

[@HashFace253]

OK went legal right?!? Lets see a cannabis mead!!!

[@MrAcuta73]

Would be legal here in Oregon...and wouldn't surprise me in the least with all the extracts, edibles, etc available to buy. Not my thing though, so I won't be doing it.

[@controversialhunter8032]

Personal opinion, Amazon sucks and it's not only killing small businesses and local jobs its become the number 1 killer of made in America products. Don't get me wrong I've had to use it during this quarantine period but other than that I never buy on line unless I can order local products. I like supporting America's economy 1st and will spend extra money to get American made products. My parents bought 1 can opener when I was a kid and my sister still has and uses it they paid about what a china made one would cost now, difference is my sister still using American made one where the china made one will have to be replaced every year or 2. Americans take pride in their products buy American when ever you can even if it cost more.

[@roman9509]

Just shows how subjective taste is.