You can watch more of the mead making process directly from Superstition Meadery on their channel: kzbin.info/door/mfqaSGdBs_p0LFbNP4H-lg
@dklurf3 жыл бұрын
In your case it's not gravity, but rather buoyancy. Just FYI man. I like what your making. I want to try that stuff. Honey alcohol sounds yummy.
@dklurf3 жыл бұрын
I really think what you guys are doing is flipping awesome. How do I buy some mead from you?
@PNWJEEPER013 жыл бұрын
@@dklurf You're perfectly incorrect. Specific gravity is the correct term. Should probably study up a bit before attempting to school people who make their living as fermenters and distillers.
@geoffwalters36623 жыл бұрын
Awesome Video! Thanks a lot!
@jonathanflud4923 жыл бұрын
Do u have a website for this
@saltysnake37743 жыл бұрын
"I'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead."
@IvanRodriguez-ro8hl3 жыл бұрын
Skyrim
@Pablo-Le-Fruge3 жыл бұрын
@@IvanRodriguez-ro8hl ya reckon
@QueenDaenerysTargaryen3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps
@natepierson56533 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many had the exact same thought clicking this vid.
@raiankeiji69543 жыл бұрын
"Mead, mead, mead... would it kill 'em to get some beer every now and then? Stupid bees and their stupid honey..."
@fluggenn3 жыл бұрын
As a beekeeper hearing you guys saying buying localy makes me happy. Really thinking to get into mead making aswell.
@Sebastian-hg3xc3 жыл бұрын
The thing is that claiming your honey is probably this rice sirup from China is ridiculous. Most of the world isn't the US, where you can label anything as you like. If you purchase honey in Euope, you will not get rice sirup.
@gabrielalbeldaochoa82343 жыл бұрын
@@Sebastian-hg3xc Indeed. The US is a weird place, fake food, fake women... what else?
@mcockerham20033 жыл бұрын
You should. I have a small scale apiary, so I don't really get enough honey to sell it, but I have made mead. It is fun, easy, and delicious.
@noahx.classic3 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 fake things exist everywhere. humans can be pretty fake as well.
@mcockerham20033 жыл бұрын
@Alex Adao Very comprehensive. I use a mix of fruit juice and honey myself. The plum juice and honey was delicious.
@revylokesh17834 жыл бұрын
I live in a small country, Luxembourg. We have a "national brand" for certain products (a label, really) things like butter, ham, wine, and honey, among others. If you buy a jug of honey with that label on it, you get the name, adress, and phone-number of the beekeeper your honey is from. And the honey (even from the same beekeeper) will be different in taste, texture, and colour depending on the season the honey was produced and what environment the beekeeper placed the hives in. Doesn't get more transparent than this, as far as traceability goes.
@ThisIsGoogle4 жыл бұрын
All of the EU does that. You are not special
@LoreShadow14 жыл бұрын
@@ThisIsGoogle Shut up :)
@austinweatherred57924 жыл бұрын
Damn, I never thought about anybody actually living in Luxembourg before
@aristobrat49874 жыл бұрын
@@ThisIsGoogle its wild you feel the need to do this, you didnt even put forth a comment worth conversing over lol youre just insulting
@tasteban98054 жыл бұрын
Schaiss letzebuerger sinn iwwerall
@Matty88K3 жыл бұрын
I am a homebrewer. One of my friends is a beekeeper and makes fabulous, award winning meads. One reason is he is so good is the effort he puts in, but his access to well harvested honey from his own hives is also a big factor. You can taste the difference in the honey before it's fermented and it is so much better than what you can buy.
@eddavanleemputten9232 Жыл бұрын
Mead maker myself, made my first mead over thirty years ago. You’re right: the better the ingredients, the better the mead. From season to season the honey will taste different and from year to year it will also be different. The honey from the Spring of 2023 can be completely different from what those same bees in a hove in the same location made during the Spring of 2022 or 2021. Their Summer honey will taste different from the Spring honey and won’t be the same as the Summer honey from the previous year. Have the bees feast on just one variety of flowers (like in an orchard) and you get a varietal honey and that, too, will be different. Use a different strain of yeast, and more subtle differences will appear. Play with your yeast nutrient schedule and it’s yet another variable that comes into play. And then, there’s all the added ingredients to play with: fruit, herbs, spices,barks. Barrel age it, allow it to age in a fermenter with the addition of toasted oak to mimic the barrel ageing or not. Do you want a tannic, higher alcohol sack mead that has aged for three to four years, or do you want a low alcohol hydromel that is supposed to be enjoyed after just a few months? Mead making is, at its basis a very simple process that’s hard to mess up. I believe it’s easier to mess up a batch of home brewed beer than to mess up a batch of home brewed mead simply because the fermentation and pre-fermentation process in themselves are (most of the time) less sensitive. Observe good practice (sanitisation, aeration, nutrition, and avoiding post-fermentation oxidation) and you’re pretty safe. At the same time it’s a craft you can hone and keep refining endlessly. And it never gets boring because the variations are endless. Happy brewing, and greetings from Belgium!
@jrenmo3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been fermenting mead for over ten years. It’s one of my favorite hobbies. I would love to work with/in/own a meadery. The best I’ve made was a wild blackberry aged for two years. I was amazed how it aged. Absolutely tremendous. This particular batch I gifted a bottle to a family member. Fast forward two years, I house sat for them and they still had it so I had to try some, right? It had mellowed out and perfectly balanced flavors. Complex and simple simultaneously. Really can’t describe it, there’s nothing like a really well fermented and aged mead. Cheers 🥂 🍻 🍷
@mcockerham20033 жыл бұрын
Hey! I make my own too. I made some with pomegranate juice that was delicious, if not a bit too sweet. I am currently aging it. What do you do when your sugar content is just too high for the champagne yeast to handle?
@erho29733 жыл бұрын
@@mcockerham2003 reduce the amount of honey used. Less honey means a dryer fermentation.
@eddavanleemputten9232 Жыл бұрын
It’s fun isn’t it? I’ve been making mead since I was 18-19 (ish) which means I’ve got a little over 30 years of making mead under the belt. I absolutely love to see how a mead evolves over time. From bottling time onwards, I tend to test periodically and a six months old mead might be really nice but become mind blowing when it’s a year or two years old. It can turn into an entirely different beast. Some meads need age to come into their own. That’s why I like to keep records for each recipe I make and add the tasting notes to that recipe over time. Typically 6 months, 1 year and 2 years (if there’s any left!) but for recipes with a higher fruit and tannin content I keep a bottle or two aside for longer. I don’t cork seal all my meads, crimp caps or even screw tops are fine for short term storage. But for those special bottles it’s dark glass and high quality cork graded for long time storage. Last Summer I concocted a no-water blackberry mead (berries and juice) that I oaked. I added a smidge of vanilla as well. Some of the berries had literally dried in the hot Summer sun. The first tasting was very promising. My father’s already wheedled a bottle out of me, he’s babying it in his wine cellar along with his expensive French wines (he’s only just become a recent mead convert). There is no way he’s opening his bottle until it’s at least a year old and probably only if I promise him another one to taste when it’s 2 years old. Keep having fun making meads! I hope that for you it’s just as it is for me: every stage is a bit like opening a surprise present. 😊
@GundamGokuTV4 жыл бұрын
This man smelling the mead like it's wine and shaking it around destroys my image of Vikings smashing down mead in the halls of Valhalla.
@argonwheatbelly6374 жыл бұрын
It's kind of a melomel, though, rather than a straight mead. So fret not.
@officialdislikebutton97124 жыл бұрын
TGATS BECAUSE HE IS A GAY VIKING
@M1E1R4 жыл бұрын
Drinking mead was like the most exclusive thing around to get drunk on. Like fancy champagne, anno 900.
@barelyfree94274 жыл бұрын
It's like anything today, it's all gay-ized and feminized.
@gertbamse14 жыл бұрын
@Ahmed El-Mhemadawi In Denmark the land of vikings we drink Mjød = mead, in big krus = jug.
@haris.saputra.4 жыл бұрын
Thay guy explaining mead is so passionate with his world. I love it
@PlasmaOne4 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is, this is quite honestly the most simple fermented beverage you can make. And while he has some quite interesting trivia, it ultimately watches like an ad. A little bit of gripe through the lens of this being an advert: A lot of the things hes going though is basic practice even for microbreweries, its all in a days work to make a consistent product. Changing the flavor of a mead is quite difficult because its really only comprised of 3 ingredients. Barrel fermenting is interesting, but I doubt theres enough time in a mead ferment to actually impart significant flavors from the barrel into the product. Sourcing good honey might be a bit of a search, but like he said, look local. The last leg they're standing on is the flavor additives, and thats something you can do yourself too.
@essare39184 жыл бұрын
@@PlasmaOne As someone who both Homebrews (Real ale, Wine, Cider and Mead) and works in a micro-brewery (Real-ale) I couldn't agree more when you break up the process of brewing regardless of what it is you are brewing away from all the fancy equipment, etcetera, it is in nature a very basic process comprised of the same elementary ingredients, small changes can have significant effects on aromas, body and taste but regardless the process is still the beautifully simple thing it always has been, this video is both intriguing and almost an advert at the same time, for all he never directly tries to make you buy anything, as for what you said about barrel fermenting, I do have to disagree on that one, the potency of whatever barrel you choose to go with plays a role in what is ultimately imparted into the final product but port barrels, or instance, do not in actuality require massive timescales to achieve a relatively decent impression on the final product.
@mrastleysghost4 жыл бұрын
@@PlasmaOne It's barrel aging, not barrel fermenting. Mead has a fairly short ferment and then they age it, same as wine, whiskey, etc..
@logoseven33654 жыл бұрын
I have a friend who does this with coffee. Met a fella yesterday who loved his Ferrari’s like this. It’s knowledge, passion and the ability to communicate all rolled together.
@burstitdown94404 жыл бұрын
Hmm it's only 13%
@thousandeyes53574 жыл бұрын
As someone who makes mead, i agree with getting the best ingredients. When I first began, I would purchase cheap honey from the store, now I purchase honey from my local bee keepers. The difference in quality is astounding. Great video!
@PARAGRAPHIC4 жыл бұрын
Better ingredients, better mead. Very true in pretty much every culinary activity.
@alexandersupertramp71914 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to try mead. I've got access to some amazing honeys. How Easy is it too do at home? Is it as easy as leaving mixed honey water to ferment?
@JustinJurazick4 жыл бұрын
@@alexandersupertramp7191 A great channel to check out for any kind of homebrewing is CS Mead and more
@trbig674 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's that easy. 3 pounds of honey per gallon of water. I have never tried a "Flavored" recipe that I liked, adding oranges, or cinnamon and cloves. (Cloves ruin ANYTHING for me) If you like it on the sweeter side, use D47 yeast. Not as sweet? (But will still have some) Use EC-1118 yeast. Good luck!
@dutchomatic4 жыл бұрын
@@trbig67 Try Kveik....Voss works great for session meads and heavier! I changed form D47 to 71b years ago....and even kveik is better than those. Quicker yields too... Skál!
@JasonPalenske3 жыл бұрын
"We're making something no one knows about.." Stares at bottles of home made mead on shelf.
@Sentientcap3 жыл бұрын
When it's made from home, it's made from the heart.
@johannesbartsch87343 жыл бұрын
Maybe it´s just not a thing in America? I am from Germany and I can go to the supermarket and pick up some bottles if I want to. Same thing for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. In Poland, it´s a little hard to find and in any "southern" European countries but I wouldn´t have thought that it´s such an "exclusive" thing in America.
@JasonPalenske3 жыл бұрын
@@johannesbartsch8734 I've been able to by Mead at the liquor store for the last 30 years, it's totally a thing here.
@johannesbartsch87343 жыл бұрын
@@JasonPalenske This video kinda makes it seem like it´s not but thanks for the info mate :)
@JasonPalenske3 жыл бұрын
@@johannesbartsch8734 Yeah, I was kind of disappointed in how much they made it out like they were the only ones.
@seerrees2 жыл бұрын
I have made Mead in my house several times. Its an amazing and not very complicated process. The passion he has for mead shines thru his eyes once he gets to talking about to History of it all. Great video coverage!
@kickboxing69584 жыл бұрын
Mead ingredients: Beard, Honey, Water and Yeast
@sakirabbit9004 жыл бұрын
Don't forget your mead making accessories
@jcat51504 жыл бұрын
LOL...Rogue did a beer with yeast FROM a beard...those guys are pretty freaky for sure... www.rogue.com/stories/beard-beer-official-beer-of-no-shave-november
@jcat51504 жыл бұрын
@Harley Mace I believe that. I'm also not too keen to drink any of it...lol
@SilvaDreams4 жыл бұрын
Nope, just Honey, water and fruit. Beard isn't needed.
@SilvaDreams4 жыл бұрын
@Harley Mace Incorrect they chew the fruit to break it up so more sugars are easily accessible since the fruit isn't in a large chunk (and it likely has a low sugar content). The yeast comes from the skin of the fruit.
@brendanrandle4 жыл бұрын
it still blows my mind that in the U.S you can buy something labelled as honey and it not be 100% honey
@user-wr3vt8uq4s4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's a bummer. If it's a cheap deal then it's probably not real. Just buy from local hives or start doing it yourself. There are a fair number of apiary coaches who can help you get started or help outsource hives at your location.
@markgearing4 жыл бұрын
In Australia we have pretty strict laws against misleading or deceptive advertising. If the packaging says “honey”, the product has to be honey.
@Wabi-sabi85514 жыл бұрын
The FDA guidelines dictate that any honey product that includes added sweeteners or sugar CANNOT be labeled as honey. Honey products with added corn syrup/rice syrup are labeled as a “honey blend,” and include an ingredient list [honey as a single ingredient product will not have an ingredient list on its label]. When shopping for honey, you’ll simply want to avoid “honey blend” products.
@SilvaDreams4 жыл бұрын
I suggest you go buy your honey from some place other than the store.
@StuninRub4 жыл бұрын
Because that's bullshit. If it's not "honey" they cannot label it as "honey". If the ingredients says 100% honey, then it is 100% honey. Most of our honey also does not come from China like the video says. The FDA makes it VERY difficult to import foods into the U.S. especially if the intent is to create fake food products.
@alexanderaaron79304 жыл бұрын
"DRINKIN' MEAD IN THE HALLS OF WHITERUN ! THE MAIDENS AND THE MEN, WE SWIG OUR BREW UNTIL WE SPEW, AND THEN WE FILL OUR MUGS AGAIN !"
@youtubeMyspaceGoogleYourYahoo4 жыл бұрын
only reason I even knew about mead
@gamejunky30404 жыл бұрын
“YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FILTHY SKOOMA, IT MAKES OUR BELLIES BLEED. BECAUSE WHEN WE RAISE OUR FLAGON TO ANOTHER DEAD DRAGON, THEIRS JUST ONE DRINK WE NEED. NORD MEAD!!”
@imnotcreativeenough72084 жыл бұрын
Old Gav is underrated
@raymondfrye50174 жыл бұрын
@@gamejunky3040 Excuse me, but what is "skooma"?
@annafirth67384 жыл бұрын
@@raymondfrye5017 You must never get hooked on Skooma. It's made from Moon sugar and Nightshade. That's about all you need to know.
@mvcharisma3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like this factory’s toilet water is cleaner than the water coming from our taps 😂
@mcockerham20033 жыл бұрын
They also have an employee who is passionate about toilet water.
@StayMadNobodycares3 жыл бұрын
“You think you're fooling anyone with that top knot?”
@spicyafricanman24014 жыл бұрын
I love the way they talk about the making this mead, they're literally in love with the process, you'll never work a day in your life if you love your work.
@Khazandar3 жыл бұрын
No, that's not true at all. It's still work, no matter what romantic nonsense you wrap it in xD
@spicyafricanman24013 жыл бұрын
@@Khazandar I mean shit I can’t argue with that lmao
@weirjwerijrweurhuewhr5883 жыл бұрын
@@spicyafricanman2401 It's also marketing.
@hardwirecars3 жыл бұрын
@@Khazandar not really it just sounds like you are lying to yourself and you have a shit job.
@colemantrantham92643 жыл бұрын
And they are telling lies about their product. They have a passion for telling tall tales. That is all.
@Nauro503 жыл бұрын
"Bringing Back" seems quite weird with international audience. The mead never went away in many parts of Europe.
@bricktea36453 жыл бұрын
They are talking about America obviously.
@bricktea36453 жыл бұрын
They are talking about America obviously.
@Guldfisken903 жыл бұрын
@@bricktea3645 Why do Americans always assume they are the center of the universe...
@Myuunium3 жыл бұрын
@@Guldfisken90 I've found myself wondering the very same thing many times.
@Th0rnable3 жыл бұрын
Yeah ... you can get it an every renaissance fair here in germany ... is that different in the USA ?
@imperil76884 жыл бұрын
“We make something that no one knows about.” *elder scrolls players have entered the chat*
@xxbootywaterbanditboixx21693 жыл бұрын
*Assasins Creed Valhalla players enter the chat*
@ts13243 жыл бұрын
Except Elder scrolls players . If he was making Skooma I’d be surprised.
@jotuthegamingguru88093 жыл бұрын
Aye aye
@missmimosa7773 жыл бұрын
😂😂💯
@missmimosa7773 жыл бұрын
@@ts1324 I wish but Sadly I doubt it, has deadly nightshade aka Belladonna
@olofsvard82223 жыл бұрын
"We make something that no one knows about." 😂🤣
@jimcurt992 жыл бұрын
I just started making mead at home 6 months ago- and I'm SO glad I live in Arizona- the local honey is awesome- I'm learning so much- really fun
@realtalk63404 жыл бұрын
I love how enthusiastic dude was about his passion. Made me love mead and I Haven’t even tried it.
@nunyabusiness85384 жыл бұрын
hell if fermented corn and mash can taste good i can’t imagine how good fermented honey must taste
@mk-15793 жыл бұрын
Meaders are very enthusiastic about our craft. In a world where commertial breweries, as well as many home brews, brew wine and beer and distillers producing hard liquor, meaders are a relatively underground subculture as the drink is not a popularized one
@colindruce-mcfadden90264 жыл бұрын
Hey neat, I worked with these folks a while back. I wrote on the early history of mead for these folks years ago. Glad to see those stories being shared again! Also: Superstition Meadery is very legit. Their meads are amazing testament to what the beverage is capable of being.
@PARAGRAPHIC4 жыл бұрын
Yes, incredible people with an incredible product. Cheers!
@sohailislam34164 жыл бұрын
I love it how they express their passion
@Kiterou4 жыл бұрын
"We're making something no one knows about.." *stares at all the brands in the store*
@lucascoval8282 жыл бұрын
Whoops.
@RustyShacklefordddd3 жыл бұрын
“Id be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead” - Some alcoholic guard
@chadtavatuna703 жыл бұрын
then he took an arrow to the knee
@clae87154 жыл бұрын
These guys are incredibly well-spoken.
@yongyea41474 жыл бұрын
Lol they are dealing with 3 ingredients
@Albreyjc4 жыл бұрын
@@yongyea4147 lol those people making vodka are only dealing with potatoes, lol those people making Sake are only dealing with rice! o_o the amount of examples in the world that make your statement both so very wrong and also so incredibly uninformed is astounding
@ishmaelcamillo4 жыл бұрын
Albreyjc they are dealing with honey
@reynardthefox90724 жыл бұрын
that's the mead talking lol
@ragnare4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm gonna need a source on that "amazing" etymology.
@broodfish4 жыл бұрын
I couldn't find anything online that it was related to that. Sounds more like a marketing trick to associate their mead with the word.
@aw2994 жыл бұрын
ragnare 😂😂😂🙈🙈
@m.a.19984 жыл бұрын
Amaze comes from Middle English amasen, from Old English āmasian, from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian to confuse.
@backwardshoe4 жыл бұрын
Both the "amazing" and "Honeymoon" stories are not true. I guess it's a fun lie to tell to visitors though.
@alex744173 жыл бұрын
@@backwardshoe The honeymoon story is true
@Highplainsdrifter444 жыл бұрын
My family heritage goes back many many generations in Scandinavia as far back as 1482. Mead has always been a big part of our family.
@lukeochoa39893 жыл бұрын
Paragraphic, you will be a giant channel soon. High production value, great animations, amazing B-roll. This is the first video I’ve ever seen of yours and I am hooked. I can’t wait to watch y’all grow as a channel because y’all deserve it!
@Winterborn52 жыл бұрын
I just started making my own at home as a hobby. Only have a 2 gallon bucket for fermentation and a few other brewing tools. Nice and simple. I plan on giving my dad a few bottles for his birthday.
@novastar24864 жыл бұрын
Haha "Mead is the most delicious beverage you have probably never tried"...*takes a swig of mead*
@Nexis17014 жыл бұрын
Lol same here
@nakona1234 жыл бұрын
Got myself a bottle of bilberry mead I'm waiting to crack open.
@deanwayne24404 жыл бұрын
Literally drinking from my horn watching this.
@josiahtheblacksmith4674 жыл бұрын
My first taste of mead was mead I made myself, it really is quite delicious! I actually like what I make better than what others have bought and let me try after I brewed my own.
@deanwayne24404 жыл бұрын
Josiah the blacksmith send me some, I’ll evaluate it.
@iggybe4 жыл бұрын
"This is something you never had before" - I hear this and laugh cause I live in Poland and drink mead every weekend.
@symeo27784 жыл бұрын
Me too! Our best national drink!
@cavanray67424 жыл бұрын
They're yanks, cut them some slack.
@sungod24294 жыл бұрын
I want to go to poland now!
@billmilne58553 жыл бұрын
@@cavanray6742 Actually mead is more popular in the US than many European countries... Just saw a video about a British mead brewer who first heard about it on a trip in the US
@MikeHesk7423 жыл бұрын
@@billmilne5855 The US has a huge homebrewing culture, a lot of mainland europe has mead as an established national product, like I know Poland has established brands I've tried. Here in the UK it's the worst of both worlds, homebrewing isnt as big over here (obviously still big but no massive brew stores and less sharing of techniques etc, and it's mostly beer or cider-focused) and very little in the way of established meaderies. Outside of Lindisfarne mead which is a weird (but historical) hybrid that you can get online, the rest are occasional side-products winerys might make for fun.
@haltestelle7933 жыл бұрын
I am planning my first mead homebrew! Mead truly is amazing. I've experimented with some spontaneously fermented young meads from wild yeast in my room.
@enricopallazzo32442 жыл бұрын
How did it go?
@realvargr10 ай бұрын
I'm starting my first batch this weekend. Mead is something very special and it's so fun seeing the mead "community" grow everyday.
@qaszim2012 Жыл бұрын
I love learning the entomology of words and this mini doc has tought me more than most documentaries. Honeymoon and amazing who would have guessed. Great job guys.
@RumiSleem4 жыл бұрын
Looks like I’m gifting a barrel of mead for all my upcoming weddings.
@PARAGRAPHIC4 жыл бұрын
They can enjoy a real honeymoon!
@codyx82734 жыл бұрын
That is where the term honeymoon came from. The village would all chip in and keep the newly married couple drunk on mead for 28 days. Drunk and sex for a full month to help the wife conceive.
@notahotshot4 жыл бұрын
@@codyx8273, that's a 19th century folklore. The only people who believe it are meadmakers and fools.
@codyx82734 жыл бұрын
notahotshot do you have proof? Cause otherwise it’s just hearsay
@exidy-yt3 жыл бұрын
@@codyx8273 ARGH again with this Victorian-era myth! NO that is not the origin of 'honeymoon' it has sweet bugger-all to do with mead. I WISH people would fact-check these little 'did you know?' anecdotes before passing them around. They are the mental equivalent of covid-19 imo, except it remains infectible forever.
@davelapointe87424 жыл бұрын
The archeological record shows that beer production predates mead by several thousand years (13k y.a. vs 7k y.a.)
@AlreadyAway4 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this.
@KLRHappyJack4 жыл бұрын
I thought so too but his point about how it naturally happens anywhere you store honey makes you assume it happened commonly on accident
@AlreadyAway4 жыл бұрын
@@KLRHappyJack you are forgetting that it is a bees job to make the honey stable. Yes, it can happen in nature but so can wild wine or cider, which would be more common as fruits are more common than honey. But the amounts in which it is happening is very small. Furthermore, the comment was to just give a correct timeline, not comment on the natural occurrence. All alcohol was found accidently. It's more important to know when man started making it.
@given-namesurname57404 жыл бұрын
@@AlreadyAway there are animals that understand the fermentation process and intentionallg wait for fruit to ferment before eating it
@piperar20144 жыл бұрын
What's the source on those dates? The Younger Dryas was about 13k to 11.5k years ago. I'm under the impression that the earliest cultivation of grains was 10k years ago.
@mikleman9963 жыл бұрын
"we make something no one knows about and really expensive to make" laughs in Europe Meadery all over the UK and north Europe
@TheDamibonf3 жыл бұрын
Slovenia! Try slovenian mead!
@mikleman9963 жыл бұрын
@@TheDamibonf Sounds good! do you have any recommendations?
@TheDamibonf3 жыл бұрын
@@mikleman996 I'm afraid not :( I found an excellent bottle a few years ago in a fair, drank it and loved it but I can't find who made it. Slovenia is the biggest honey producer in Europe and they're developing a great culture around it, I'm sure there's plenty of (cheap) choice
@Kronos09993 жыл бұрын
Such professional documentaries, holy hell. I'm so surprised at how low your subs are. You're gonna blow up
@Kronos09993 жыл бұрын
Hopefully
@jcman-lp6lg3 жыл бұрын
7:00 the man's smile was beamin when he's talking about it. A man that love his job.
@Taooflu3 жыл бұрын
Mead and beards seem to go together. Plus I just love the word mead.
@weirjwerijrweurhuewhr5883 жыл бұрын
It's just the mead version of all those hipster breweries.
@beurksman4 жыл бұрын
In Europe we actually drink a fair bit of mead. I'd love to see a craft mead boom, tho.
@josiahtheblacksmith4674 жыл бұрын
In the United States where I live it is hard to find. I had to make my own to be able to try it. It was worth the work though, I would like to see a craft mead boom here as well. Would be nice to not have to brew some every time I want some.
@eugeniusgentapradana82564 жыл бұрын
Oh, it will come
@ukaszbuczek92204 жыл бұрын
In Poland there is a lot of companies that make mead. It is called miód pitny
@jerryreedfan74 жыл бұрын
I'd like to think that here in the states that craft mead boom is just starting up and there is a company called groennfell meadery that makes craft meads and can ship it
@mrinfamouz4 жыл бұрын
Josiah the blacksmith quite a few meaderies on the east coast, I don’t know where you live but look up charm city meadworks. They have some good stuff from Baltimore
@gav16364 жыл бұрын
I wonder if anyone’s ever thought about making mead with the hallucinogenic honey from Nepal. I’m curious if it would make “magic mead”, or if the hallucinogenic effect of it would go away in the fermentation process.
@MrLordwen4 жыл бұрын
Yes! I'm interested to seeing what would come out of it.
@saintvictorie4 жыл бұрын
Hmmm good idea. I'm making a trip soon to the himalayas.
@alfreddoncarlo90044 жыл бұрын
Good idea.
@melonjuice74414 жыл бұрын
mead has been mixed with everythang baby
@gottago98244 жыл бұрын
the ancient greeks used to make hallucinogenic wine - they combined wine and ergot w/a mix of other herbs so who knows?
@toad20393 жыл бұрын
Got to love that he gives away all his experience with passion. I feel like I know all the tricks of the trade! Thanks
@MikeyMacMac3 жыл бұрын
I love it. This was probably the best youtube surprise ever. Superstition is among the best when it comes to mead, I mean they have the top 12 or so of top 20 meads ranked on tapped. I share it as often as I can!
@brockly79164 жыл бұрын
played skyrim years back and I just thought Mead was regular beer..
@HisVirusness3 жыл бұрын
It's so much better, especially when you make it yourself.
@eYeTrIcK773 жыл бұрын
@@HisVirusness I want to try to make some now >_
@HisVirusness3 жыл бұрын
@@eYeTrIcK77 Check out the channel Doin' The Most; the guy who runs it is very knowledgeable. It may seem overwhelming at first, but he has videos specifically targeted to beginners.
@biggnutz30923 жыл бұрын
Hmm I'm diabetic 🤔😱
@gabrielalbeldaochoa82343 жыл бұрын
@@HisVirusness TBF I would start from an old historical recipe book and from there start experimenting and force your family into tasting mouldy water for the next year until you find your spot in mead.
@repubblesmcglonky89904 жыл бұрын
For anyone who has never drunk mead, try it, it's the Bee's knees
@Dareios42974 жыл бұрын
And after that try a bee‘s knees, it’s the mead ^^
@repubblesmcglonky89904 жыл бұрын
@@Dareios4297 go home pascal, you're drunk
@notahotshot4 жыл бұрын
Actually it's not the bee's knees, it's the bee's vomit.
@BEEMAN69693 жыл бұрын
@@notahotshot a bee's got 2 separate stomachs. A food stomach and a honey crop.
@tomconnor25293 жыл бұрын
I bought two bottles of Bunratty Mead several years ago and took them to a friends New Year’s Eve party . Everyone that tried it dumped their glasses out after a few sips . It was basically a dry white wine with globs of honey floating in it . Absolutely horrible ! I haven’t tried anything else yet.
@onixtheone3 жыл бұрын
“Marketing is a helluva drug” -Rick James
@opensourceradionics3 жыл бұрын
the music is so inspiring, I have tears in my eyes ... well, I need to buy a bottle and try
@ironelegance3 жыл бұрын
I tried a bottle of theirs and it's really tasty. Strong too. Like a strong wine with a spirits finish but balanced really well. It's a treat
@AstroPatel3 жыл бұрын
10:28 "that means that if something is amazing, it is as good as being drunk on mead"
@mavwavesify4 жыл бұрын
Lol everybody in my country knows about this, its part of our christmas tradition to drink hot mead. I suppose more slavic country residents will agree with me
@nou14384 жыл бұрын
It depends what Slav you are. Here in exyugo we drink warm rakia
@mavwavesify4 жыл бұрын
Well, we have palenka which is basically the same thing, but never heard of someone drinking it warm.
@rodrigorosas88774 жыл бұрын
It's also very common in my country, some restaurants even offer it for free at the end of a meal
@mavwavesify4 жыл бұрын
Rodrigo Rosas where are you from? Might wanna pay you a visit :D
@rodrigorosas88774 жыл бұрын
@@mavwavesify Portugal!
@RocRizzo4 жыл бұрын
I once had a discussion with some friends on the origin of mead. We came to the conclusion that someone left some honey out in the rain, and forgot about it. It was fermented by wild yeasts, and months later when it was discovered, the folks who found it, and drank it, thought that it was a gift from the gods!
@sipofliquid10 ай бұрын
more likely, since bee hives are natural, someone just drank from a puddle that had runoff from a beehive and realized it was good, and fermented
@jchin11176 ай бұрын
That's so beyond inaccurate and impossible. Mead was invented in the 1960s in America. STOP SPREADING LIES on KZbin!!!
@RocRizzo6 ай бұрын
@@jchin1117You forgot the sarcasm tag
@Kencival3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad I stumbled on this channel. All the videos so far have been really educational.
@genemcdonald40493 жыл бұрын
been making mead for years, always happy to see others doing the same
@cordramirez19994 жыл бұрын
Love this. My father-in-law has some fermenting as we speak
@Vinkie4 жыл бұрын
You're one lucky guy.
@1218omaroo3 жыл бұрын
60% absolute waffle, 40% good information. Great to see someone talking mead again though. :)
@blupyxi56693 жыл бұрын
Well I dunno anything about any of it so it's all golden to me 😁
@amaturearcadia3 жыл бұрын
It's so good, tried it at the farmers market yuuum
@googleanti-speech76183 жыл бұрын
Sir I and extremely impressed, not just by your knowledge, but by your passion for the product, and not only that but you treat it with utmost respect. And I like that!
@guycalgary78003 жыл бұрын
It’s a tasty beverage for sure , I mix it with ginger ale and serve it over ice for a great summer drink !
@joshuagarner69814 жыл бұрын
“Almost cooked and turned brown.” *insert credentials* As a beekeeper who is so passionate about keeping bees that I keep hives for our 1,000 acres of farmland even though I am anaphylactic shock allergic to their stings. *back to my point* The honey is brown at the end of the season because it’s dirty. More dirt tracked into the hives over the season. That’s all.
@NaughtiusMaximu54 жыл бұрын
A little floor spice makes everything nice
@MAJmufin4 жыл бұрын
that is a lot of bees! Good thing you do it too. Nature needs those lil fellas.
@xeropave4 жыл бұрын
That's all from your farm in your opinion. Ever tried strawberry field honey from Hawaii? Didn't think so. It is RED and so other sources can be differently colored. Open your mind a bit.
@helicocktor4 жыл бұрын
What's being measured with the liquid is not its "gravity", it's its "specific gravity".
@Lolwutdesu90004 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this.
@ANTSEMUT14 жыл бұрын
I almost read that as Gravy, looking in my peripheral vision.
@dillweed5014 жыл бұрын
bird up I bet you’re fun at parties
@given-namesurname57404 жыл бұрын
@@dillweed501 being able to tell people interesting things would contribute to a fun party
@leonlawson21964 жыл бұрын
Bye nerd
@adampolitowski3 жыл бұрын
“We make something that no one knows about.” It is funny how Americans are making something extraordinary out of something that is just common thing in Europe. But another common thing for Americans is to forget all the "old ways" of doing things in Europe and than making huge "re-discovery" in Ameican way. Dont get me wrong I am glad you guys are making it and popularize it in USA but honestly there is no need of revivig that beverage. Nothing has been forgotten, nothing needs to be rediscovered and you are definitely not in possesion of something that no one knows about. Half of European countries know very well and we have a few dozens of different producents of Mead just in my homeland - Poland (I am sure in other European coutnries as well).
@salmonfish11453 жыл бұрын
This is the same case with the sourdough craze. Sourdough was the original way of making bread before industrialised white bread overtook sourdough in popularity. Now it's being revived.
@LegonDamien3 жыл бұрын
Croatians get f…ked up every weekend with this
@sventer198 Жыл бұрын
Love how excited these guys are about their product 🎉
@Thulgore3 жыл бұрын
Mead is fascinating. I like how this is an ad......but at the same time the guy is encouraging people to try mead made by everyone. That changes it from an advertisement to a genuine love of the product.
@TheHelluvastudio4 жыл бұрын
He looks very happy after had his mead...
@zachariaswilliams17704 жыл бұрын
Going off how much an average bottle of honey cost i could only imagine how much a whole barrel would cost
@yongyea41474 жыл бұрын
$230
@claystanislaw22814 жыл бұрын
I use a little less than 15 lbs to make a 5 gallon batch, and that cost about $60 dollars in my area, depending on the time of year
@JeffreyQProductions3 жыл бұрын
@@claystanislaw2281 How long does mead 'keep' for? Indefinitely? Does it go bad?
@claystanislaw22813 жыл бұрын
@@JeffreyQProductions id be lying if I said I knew, because I've never tried to store it more than a few months. My boys usually drink it up pretty fast anyway, but I assume it is the same as grape wine,and only hets better with age
@miagy4204 жыл бұрын
This guy looks like Chris from Total Drama Island 🤣
@DocLumen4 жыл бұрын
Well THAT'S a show I haven't heard of in a long long time.
@pamelabratton25013 жыл бұрын
Summer honey is SO different from spring honey is SO different from winter honey from the same hive! I am on my second year with two bee hive! Just started my very FIRST one gallon batch of mead! I am STOKED!
@eddavanleemputten9232 Жыл бұрын
How did it turn out?
@ericneyens3 жыл бұрын
I just found this channel today, and I am immediately in love. I love the content here, and the types of people and industries displayed. Do refreshing and inspiring to see
@hatboyal71814 жыл бұрын
Literally have a jug of mead brewing in my sauna
@sauceman56163 жыл бұрын
How was it?
@hatboyal71813 жыл бұрын
@@sauceman5616 a bit poisonous, but overall quite nice
@TickyTack234 жыл бұрын
I can see this being a very lucrative business to help the bee population.
@McGovern19814 жыл бұрын
Ya thought the same thing! Drink this and help support pollination!
@nanocowie4 жыл бұрын
The more business there are for beekeepers, the more beekeepers there will be. Wish there were a few more where I am.
@Matty88K3 жыл бұрын
Bee keeping is very hard work and low profit. We need more bee keepers, but good bee keepers, because lazy amateurs have contributed to the problems of varoa mites, foul brood, and other diseases devastating both domestic and wild bees in the US, Canada, and Europe.
@lazygizmo4 жыл бұрын
Today I learn what honeymoon meant and im not ok... Oldest and most wholesome tradition. urk my heart.
@notahotshot4 жыл бұрын
"Oldest and most wholesome tradition." Also completely false. The etymology of amaze does not have anything to do with mead or the cup called a mazer, beer had been brewed far earlier than mead, and the 19th century theory that honeymoon has anything to do with mead has been rejected by scholars for a long time now. Everything he said was just marketing hype.
@lazygizmo4 жыл бұрын
@@notahotshot Sorry I dont speak wrong. I'm going to use mead to break the ice in social parties and have mead on my honeymoon.
@Laticia19903 жыл бұрын
@@notahotshot you don't even need to "brew" mead though. it's just honey, water and time.
@sethhardy8663 жыл бұрын
I am a small bee keep and I never went back to eating other honey. I loved honey toasted bread. Always went to the story and get a bottle of it. But when I first harvested honey and tasted it I was blown out of the water. Not to mention you can promote natural flavoring for your honey. If bees eat oranges while doing their job your honey will flavored with a tangy orange flavor.
@eddavanleemputten9232 Жыл бұрын
Use some of that honey to make mead. Trust me. It takes time but you’ll love it. Just remember that like wine, mead is better when it gets the opportunity to age. Ferment it. Wait for it to clear. Balance the flavour to your liking (sweetness, acidity etc). Stabilise it to avoid re-fermentation in the bottle (you don’t want a bottle to explode on you). Keep a few bottles to drink at different points in time (after 6 months, after 1 year, etc). The process in itself doesn’t take a lot of work. Most of it is waiting: waiting for fermentation to end, waiting for the mead to clear (for the floating yeast cells to settle in the bottom), waiting for it to age. But each and every stage is fun because it’s a new discovery. Even when you make the exact same recipe, the end result will be subtly different because no harvest of honey is exactly the same. I’ve been making meads for over 30 years. Trust me. If you can spare a few lbs of honey, it’s worth a try. Just a tiny little warning: making your own meads can be addictive. Sharing your home made meads can make you popular among friends and family.
@saraha82763 жыл бұрын
Polish mead is also great, it's called Miod Pitny and comes in 4 categories, from dry to very sweet as they all contain different ratios of honey to water. It's also traditionally mulled and drunk warm. It can also be fermented with fruits and local berries sometimes, which is great. What they are making in the video (2 parts water to one part honey) is considered Trojniak (Truy-nyuk) and is the second driest.
@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean "bringing back"? They've been brewing it on Lindisfarne here in England for centuries.
@hyenaswine3 жыл бұрын
Right. Lindisfarne...center of the world lol. Still living in castles too, i'm sure.
@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.3 жыл бұрын
@@hyenaswine As opposed to that glittering metropolis Prescott, Arizona...?
@hyenaswine3 жыл бұрын
@@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. Sorry? Oh I see you thought this mead was only for people in Prescott, Arizona and this youtube video was only for people in Prescott, Arizona. Try and keep up, this isn't just for you. It's on the Internet.
@telpeloth4 жыл бұрын
> Never heard about Please, I'm Polish, supposedly Polish knights declined participation in crusades, because there was no mead in Holy Land. That's like XII century Not to mention that I used to keep bees, and my last name literally means "beehive".
@MikeHesk7423 жыл бұрын
Legend :D I've had some polish mead, I love that it's mostly survived in Poland. Here in the UK it pretty much died out, there's maybe one established brand that is a mixture of mead and white wine from Lindisfarne that has historical links, but apart from that the only mead you can find here is stuff that's maybe made from winerys as a hobby. Which is why I brew my own.
@notleviathan8553 жыл бұрын
I think he's just talking about like "in general" not Niche countries where mead is like important. Here in the states mead isn't popular, unless you go to very specific stores you won't be able to find mead. So we can just assume he's speaking directly to Americans when he's talking about it. I never heard about mead unless it was in videogames. I knew it was a real life thing, but I just thought it went out of fashion until a couple years ago. Just goes to show that a majority of the American Population grabs a six pack, and calls it a day. I didn't even know the ingredients of mead until this video, I thought it was a bunch of fruit mashed together, and sat in a barrel. He's not talking to an international audience. He's an American talking to Americans about mead, and how much culture, and history is behind it.
@timm11393 жыл бұрын
“... I wonder if Velard is still making that mead with juniper berries mixed in ...”
@xXCREEKSTARXx3 жыл бұрын
Im making my own at home, with absolute success. Every 5liter batch takes 4-5 weeks, with the pulled off yeast after 4 weeks always surviving a few more weeks, making the rest of the mead reach something like 13-15%. My base-mead now reaches something between 8-10% within a few days, give or take and top out at now 15%. My yeast is a powerhouse lol
@RageKing8973 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Absolutely loved watching this video! Well done 👏
@xBurzurkurx3 жыл бұрын
"So it's like 1 part honey and 2 parts..." *Superstition Meadery has left the chat*
@smokey41444 жыл бұрын
I legit mistaken the guy for Harley epicmealtime.
@TheBelrick4 жыл бұрын
Well as a beek i made mead over the lockdown and 3 months later i ended up with something that tastes just like white wine. Which is great and all but i drink beer. So i made honey beer instead and am now secondary fermenting that mead as methomel
@frizzybob4 жыл бұрын
no.
@amaturearcadia3 жыл бұрын
Umm *Mistook *From
@kenta0000074 жыл бұрын
"Honey from the grocery store is probably just rice syrup from China." HUH????
@henryorsomething4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, there's an episode in a Netflix docuseries (think it was called Rotten) about how China is undercutting domestic honey markets with rice syrup and what not.
@texlad044 жыл бұрын
Buy local products. It really matters.
@MrTuubster4 жыл бұрын
I am so glad the EU consumeren rights forbid advertising sugar syrup as honey.
@alethia58744 жыл бұрын
It's true tbh
@juanvco4 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if that's true. I simply love honey and used to live in south america and eat honey all the time. I moved to north america and I recall buying a bottle at Walmart that was so pale and bland tasting that for sure wasn't pure honey as stated on the bottle.
@CitySteadingBrews3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Love this. Really awesome to peek inside a commercial meadery and get some of the background on mead making. One thing... the honeymoon story is a 19th Century Victorian invention that was passed on. Sadly, it's not really the origin of the word.
@jumbee93 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. Well shot and cut. And I learned something about mead. Very cool.
@ernsthaft9193 жыл бұрын
To all US-citizens ... here in europe we are able to consume more then cola, gatorade and bud light... ...and the stores here sell this stuff too!!!
@TalonsRebellion3 жыл бұрын
...I literally have a booze supermarket 20 minutes from me as an American. Mead isn't some foreign thing here. I drink it all the time, and the local ones are really freaking good.
@studlymuffen4life4 жыл бұрын
I can listen to these guys for hours
@MAJmufin4 жыл бұрын
after hearing about the honey being rice water from china being sold as honey in the US, I sure am glad about the law in the Netherlands stating that if an items wants to carry a name of a product it must have atleast 80% of that inside, like rice milk is now named rice drink here and almond milk too. Honey though, that is stricter , I think it must be atleast 95% honey.
@billmilne58553 жыл бұрын
Yeah the US has the same laws. The concept is to be secretly breaking the rules which could happen anywhere. If you research it, it's a global problem
@Matty88K3 жыл бұрын
Don't be so smug. The honey sold in the US that is rice syrup and other aduletrants is counterfeit honey from China, and it's not legal. Sorry to say that you have the same situation in the Netherlands and all over the EU.
@tuckerscreek52213 жыл бұрын
2:51 "The more locally sourced you can find the honey the better."......... AMEN BROTHER!
@iamM4SK3 жыл бұрын
dont know why youtube decided to recommend this but im so glad it did! might order a bottle now! great video!
@TanakaMatsumoto3 жыл бұрын
"bringing back" Watch this man pretend like he's the only mead maker left in the world. BRINGING BACK???? Really??? Shit never left dude.
@hardwirecars3 жыл бұрын
you cant find mead in the states idiot you have to order it online and that only changed a few years ago 500 producers in all of america let that sink in.
@TrikSeSpicatymKloboukem3 жыл бұрын
@@hardwirecars You could also just, you know, make mead at home????
@hardwirecars3 жыл бұрын
@@TrikSeSpicatymKloboukem i am working on it only part that confuses me i got a kit thats not the best it comes with everything but it does not tell you what to do with it. i am wanting to do it right so i want to do the santization part but it comes with a pill and powder and i have no fucking clue when to use each... should be fucking easy but noooooo
@colemantrantham92643 жыл бұрын
@@hardwirecars No you don't. I buy it at a place in Lenoir, NC in the mountains. I have been in the area where he makes it.
@hardwirecars3 жыл бұрын
@@colemantrantham9264 talking about stores man not everyone has a man in the mountains or mountains for that mater lol
@ineedthatent53704 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a really nice guy lol
@Lemon.Lime.69z3 жыл бұрын
His passion for what he does is really cool
@Dainichi_Nyorai3 жыл бұрын
Impressed with these guys' professionalism and knowledge. If I drank, I would buy bucketloads of the stuff.
@t_c52663 жыл бұрын
"bringing back" meanwhile mead is readily and commercially available everywhere still
@Heiryuu3 жыл бұрын
In the US it’s not as available because our temperance movements back in the 1920’s killed most if not all of our breweries, distilleries, and meaderies. So for the US at least they are bringing it back.
@t_c52663 жыл бұрын
@@Heiryuu no they aren't.
@beepIL4 жыл бұрын
10:23 Errr.... no, sorry, where did you get that etymology from? the roots of mazer (mæser) and amazing (amasen) are completely different mæser, later known as mazer, is just "maple" which is the type of wood used to make this bowl, it is a maple wood bowl. "amasen" means something completely different... Sorry :) But yeah kudos on the good marketing, that almost convinced me there for a second
@hexxon774 жыл бұрын
Go to Poland pal. It's a land of one of the best meads on the planet. And still produced in quite large quantities. There coming in four grades based on the honey wort (brzeczka) proportion to the water: one and a half (półtorak), double (dwójniak), triple (trójniak) and quadruple (czwórniak). Ps Still in many Eastern European countries you can buy many different types of mead and quite cheaply too.
@andrewlitvinov72664 жыл бұрын
AFAIK Medovukha/Medovina is not the same as mead. The former is simpler/faster to make and thus cheaper.
@jorisdecoene39944 жыл бұрын
Indeed there's some great mead tradition in Poland. I discovered it 4 years ago when I visited my Polish girlfriend. Her father made some great trójniaks, sometimes aged for more than 15 years. Now I started my own brand in Belgium. Check out www.baronhoneymead.com Na zdrowie!
@hexxon774 жыл бұрын
@@jorisdecoene3994 Well done! And good luck! It's good to see that Western People are coming back to the old European traditions. Na zdrowie!
@zk14793 жыл бұрын
Thanking you. And greetings from Abuja.
@zluz43 жыл бұрын
I have been doing mead like 5 years, cheap yest and water from the rain, but here in México we have diferent kinds of honey, that give a lot of properties and flavors. I dont have much but i can share it with family and friends. I hope in the future travel there and taste that art.