How To Make a Watermelon Session Mead (Hydromel)
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Today we're making a Watermelon Session mead! This thing is mega crushable and super awesome. I can't wait to make more of this for summertime! I hope you will check out the recipe below and make sure to support the channel by hitting like and subscribe. Cheers!
Watermelon Session Mead Recipe:
3.6 Pounds of Blackberry Honey
5.4 oz of Amoretti Watermelon Flavoring
5 Grams of OYL Sundew Ale Yeast
1 1/2 Cup of Erythritol
1 oz of Lemon Juice
2.95 oz of Honey as priming sugar
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For those of you who would like to supplement out real watermelon juice for this... I suggest you juice 2 - 3 watermelons and use that as your water base. You can also look into buying watermelon juice if it's available around you. Just make sure to sanitize everything very well and pitch your yeast right after mixing. Don't let any bad yeast have time to take hold of the brew!
I reckon the sugar from the watermelon juice would also bump up the alcohol content but I'm not sure by how much.
I was excited as i just bought a watermelon..
It’s possible with real watermelon! You just need to essential juice the watermelon by straining out to only the liquid and then use that as your water base!
@@ManMadeMead this would have made a great video. I’m not interested in the prepared flavourings.
@@DisconnectedAudio I have a really great recipe if you're interested. It's been hugely popular.
I always love your content I tend to be drinking homebrew while I watch so sometimes I might make a stupid comment but the appreciation is always there
Yooooo.... HYDROMELON
I love it!!
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Great video!
Thank you!
I’m thinking of making this and juicing a watermelon to add to secondary & none in primary.
Let me know how that works! I've never tried it!
Your lables always look great, what program do you use
I think he hired a graphic designer.
I had someone help me design them! I use adobe indesign for my editing of them!
I’ve got a watermelon wine rolling now. I started with a white grape juice to get a rocking yeast colony going. 48 hours later used 1 gallon of the Arizona brand watermelon juice. Let it drop to about 1.010, added another gallon with 2.5# of sugar dissolved in it. Fed my little beasts lots of nutrients. Let it again drop to about 1.010, another gallon of juice and dissolved sugar and food. It’s up to 5 gallons, using those steps. Currently finishing, but has a bit of sulfur funk I’m hoping will subside with more degassing and maybe some copper mesh in it at bulk conditioning. Hoping this method works and have some watermelon flavoring to boost it if needed. Did you find this helps the flavor ok?
can you mix together a flavored mead with just regular mead? i just made a batch of five gallons and some of them are flavared but at the end the gallons with flavor end up half of gallon.
(sorry for my english)
I just bought my first bucket of honey, it was 40 lbs and I can't tell if you bought a small bucket or if you're so tall you just man handled it like a baby toy.
So my question is....using Amoretti (spelling?) is the watermelon flavour candy like or is it real fruit like? Thanks.
It’s a watermelon extract! So it’s flavoring with real fruit (like a super condensed purée)
You seem to favor hydromels as of late. Must be the summer fever. I've made watermelon wine long ago, and it was fine. I suggest hibiscus flower instead of lemon to help bring out the taste of the red fruit with its tartness (in moderation, of course).
Definitely summer fever! I'll have to put that in my things to make list!
Me? It's summertime and I am craving those high ABV meads. Got a mesquite mead going right now. EC-118 yeast. If the ABV is not in the double digits, I will hang my head in shame.
What do you do with fruit after your first fermentation? I know fruit tends to soak up alcohol. Do you ever squeeze/strain fruit to get out extra sugars and alchol, and transfer that strained liquid to your mead? Do you just disgard it?
I don’t normally squeeze or strain the fruit… I just discard it! I’m okay with taking a little loss.
What calculator or calculations did you do to how much priming honey to use
This is a good priming sugar calculator to use! www.northernbrewer.com/pages/priming-sugar-calculator
What do you call a Hydromel that is over 7.5 ABV? Just a mead?
A standard strength is anything between 7.5 % (or 8.5% as some people think) and 14%. Above that we start to call those meads "Sack Meads".
Something I want to drink!
@manmademead how much wine tannin would you have added? I am working on balancing my dry meads and just got some.
I would start with 1 tsp and then add more as I felt I needed!
@@ManMadeMead awesome, I will try that, thank you
What do you use for calculating the honey in place of priming sugar? Is there an online calculator? I have been trying to figure out the calculation for myself with knowing that the gravity for 1 lb of sugar being .046 and honey being .035 from what I have made and haven't found a calculator for it yet.
This one is good! www.midwestsupplies.com/pages/priming-sugar-calculator?psafe_param=1&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAyp-sBhBSEiwAWWzTnn3sBSd9njuGsPJcfcmLyVpjZ1hc6wHq7FXxMRWosHhNTNZM_M1A4BoCXVEQAvD_BwE
@@ManMadeMead Thank you for the link.
What do you think of the erythritol flavor? I've been on the fence about trying it.
There is none. I tried it in my last couple of brew and there wasn't any off flavor. I didn't use it to make a dry mead a dessert mead. But to bring some sweeteness in my ciders or hydromels, it's very good.
@@tim-tim-timmy6571 thanks! I currently got a hydromel going, was thinking about using on that but I've never used artificial sweeteners on a brew.
I love using erythritol in my brews, I personally can't taste the difference in a brew compared to sugar and other sweeteners, but that depends on how much you use and how delicate your tasting is
I honestly can't taste a difference between it and regular sugar. Of course honey has a different flavor, but erythritol really just adds sweetness without adding anything odd in my opinion. One day I will do a triangle test with some other back sweetening sources to see if I can really tell a difference!
Thanks everyone! I'll give it a go when hydromel is done.
Does anyone have a 1 gallon recipe?
You think he's blonde because of all the honey he consumes?
You caught me!
@@ManMadeMead Haha! Cheers mate. I got started because of your channel.
@@zombieplow I’m happy to help however I can!