How to Make Cherry Cheesecake Mead: Easy Step-by-Step Guide
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- We asked for recommendations for a dessert mead, and, wow, did we get them! Cheesecake was a very popular option and we both love cherry cheesecake so.... We decided to show how to make a cherry cheesecake mead. We give in depth step by step instructions on how we made this mead.
Oh, and the cherries were pitted. It said so right on the can, lol.
Ingredients:
1/2 packet Lalvin 71B Yeast: amzn.to/3L5xGcq
2 lbs (0.9 kg) Wildflower Honey: amzn.to/4eEIDiJ
96 oz Water
3 Cans Oregon Dark Sweet Cherries: amzn.to/3ROufe6
Additions:
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Back Sweeten with Honey as desired (we went to Specific Gravity reading of 1.050)
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I also should have said that this was your best episode. The pure child like joy you two have... I mean I'll have to flag this to watch anytime I'm in a bad mood. 😁
Lol, glad you liked it!
agree
"What? How? Why?" That was exactly my first reaction when I read the title. 😂 Now, I am thinking of trying it. 😊
I'm glad CSB is posting more often
We have done 2 a week for years!
@@CitySteadingBrewsThe last 2 weeks it seems like you posted 3 or 4 times a week, not all of those were brews though. Which I enjoy because it's informative and entertaining.
@bigfootwalker5399 yeah we had a few things to put out there 😀
Us too ♡♡♡
@@CitySteadingBrews That's cool! The vibe of your videos also helps me relax, and it's not realistic for creators to produce the content they want to if they're rushed to get it out by an arbitrary deadline.
Given how much you're also gaming nerds, using the candy math rocks to put the scores on feels very fitting.
A great illustration of the joy of brewing - nice to see your inner children being so playful
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
I was so excited to see a CHERRY CHEESECAKE mead video. Yes! I’m also glad Brian does the math and Derica gives the recipe. Thanks guys! 🍒
I had a banana wine finish at 18% a.b.v. it was a step feed and I used brown sugar as an adjunct fermentation sugar. I started with ec 1118 and added turbo yeast after the first rack along with my third addition of brown sugar. I'm going to run the 5 gal fermenter of wine through a Brita filter today to clean it up further and let it sit on half of a vanilla bean pod and 1/2 lb of coconut flakes that I will toast in a skillet.
When Brian and Derica drop an hour long video, it's time to get some popcorn and bundle up on the couch
Glad you think so!
now that mead is some pure eye-CANDY! (can't think of anything better to put in the word of the day).
The music on the Brian rants is such a good touch 😂
Thanks!
haha its always good when you guys get to do a brew you want to do. You're like a couple of kids! its great!
200k subs, happy for you
Thanks!
Today in the mad scientists laboratory...I like this kind of thing. Going fully outside the box and going crazy for something unique.
Fun video and fun concoction to make!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well, because, science and Mead just rocks! Brilliant
Key lime pie? You already have the graham cracker flavor.
True!
@@CitySteadingBrewsI wholeheartedly second the motion of key lime pie!!!
I do love me a good cheese cake. Every time you guys make a brew I wish I could just go down to the store and buy a bottle of it 😂
Same 😅 can you ship some to Denmark please 😅😅
I think cherry cheesecake doubles as a breakfast food, so I'm good with this mead... Better than candy to me!
Lol
I was looking for more dessert ideas, and a few that come to mind are 'Bananas Foster', pecan pie, S'mores'. We have started 3 meads and welchs wine. Meads are Grocery store, Fruit cake and Habenero pineapple❤❤❤❤
Next month, we will be doing this cherry cheesecake!!!
Candy........You 2 inspire me more then any other UA-cam brewers. I made an ApplePycer that is increadable because of you and the information yall have given us so thank you.
Thanks, and thanks for watching.
Dang it! You're clever!
I phased out about the time you picked up the calculator and phased back in again when you finished writing the notes.
I tend to put in what you put in and thank my lucky stars I have you guys. ❤
Glad you liked it.
Just thought i would let you know i enjoy watching your content. Will never be trying your recipes out for I quit drinking 29 years ago for i had a problem with it. But you videos are relaxing to watch and as well i will say this episode was one of your best. Had to chuckle and laugh several times. Cheers!
Thanks!
I prefer long videos. I could watch them back to back.
Should we do the "movie" like gamers do and just string a bunch of videos together in one 8-10 hour video? Lol.
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The colour/color against the spaddle as you were stirring in sweetening ingredients was sensational. 🥰
Well, Larry and I share a favorite cheesecake with you both. As a matter of fact, our wedding cake was a cherry chocolate cheesecake. I just bought everything to make this. Hoping maybe I might have it done in time for our 9th anniversary next month. Hoping mine will turn out all CANDY like as yours did.
That's it, I'm getting these extracts! This sounds really amazing.
On an aside, I think this video is a good example of why I like the old system. An 11 on the old scale and you knew it was extremely good and a 20 sounds good, but it doesn't break the 1-10 rule in my opinion. If you called it a 21 I think it might come off as more spectacular. Not sure if I'm wording it right, I guess to summarize, an 11 just came across as a rule breaker for a reason, we don't have above a 20 atm. I love you"re content and I don't want to come off as critical.
I hope you both have a great day and thanks for this gem!
As someone who is looking to get into mead and wine making I have been watching a lot of your videos> One thing I would like to request would be a list of your favorite recipes, that being an independent video or just a playlist of the already existing videos.
We have done that a couple times.
I just had to look a little harder thanks for responding so fast tho.
No worries! Lots of content to sift through, lol.
Oh boy, I'm not afraid to say this made me excited :D I would love to see how much harder a raspberry or blueberry version would be, but as far as other ideas go, maybe a blueberry buckle?
Should be roughly the same idea.
I just ordered all my supplies to start brewing my own mead! Thanks for the really informative videos, appreciate all the help for us beginners! I’ll be using your basic mead recipe with black tea and raisins for my first brew, wish me luck!
Luck not needed, but good luck anyway. Happy to help.
Oh this is definitely a mead to try ….color is so intense 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☘️
I walked up to my husband and said "the newest City Steading recipe is cherry cheesecake mead" and his response was simply "yes".
This is THE best comment we have received in 6 years. Thank you! Enjoy!
@@CitySteadingBrews you're very welcome! ☺️
These recipes are insane! I love them
great video cant wait to take a stab at making it...i think a strawberry short cake with whipped cream mead would be a fun one for yall to do its my favorite dessert
I can’t wait to try this mead
This was a fun video. Another recipe on the list. Thanks for all you do.
Thanks for the great video. I can’t wait to try this. I’m gonna order the extract tomorrow. Thanks for all the great information and the great video and you guys do great. Have a great week. I can’t wait to see the next video.
This sounds and looks so yummy. Can't wait to try this.
It's seriously good!
I was thinking about this one last night! Glad to wake up to this notification, I'll definitely be watching this after work
Loved watching the two of you craft this brew!
Thank you for watching!
Awesome as always
Thank you!
Totally going to take credit for the cherry cheesecake idea 😊
Hi Guys, love the channel and have used your recipes for ALL my meads!
Thanks for watching!
We got our first 20 😂👍. I love the whole idea behind this. Cheesecake it’s one of my favorites desserts. Well done guys!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
This sounds amazing! Can't wait to see how it comes out.
Watching it as I pasteurize a jalapeño limeade wine. 💪😎👍
amazing video, small steps in the process, are something I still need to practice.
Candy, candy, candy! Nothin' but candy!
Now off to get ingredients to make cherry cheesecake mead!!
Lol
I'm going to try making this. It sounds amazing
It really is. Came together nicely!
Thank you for all your videos and ideas because of you guys I had a wonderful successful bottle carb for a delicious mixed berry sparkling mead
Awesome! Happy to help.
I will say the peach extract from a million videos ago has served me well and makes all my ciders taste like Candy, so I'm going to have to give these flavor adds a try too. Graham cracker crust cheesecake is the superior cheesecake, though.
I would love to see you guys try a tiramisu. I know I've recommended it before.
Wife just threw down the peach cobbler gauntlet as well
Cherry Cheesecake Mead sounds delicious!
Amazing! I am going to have to wait to try - brewing season is over. Too hot now :( Cherry cheesecake, black forest gateau ... some of my favourite things so I am sure I'll love this! Getting the right cherries is going to be tricky.
I have an admittedly wild suggestion for the mad mead scientists: coffee and walnut cake mead.
I've been watching for a long time but never comment. I'm hispanic and the first thing that came to mind was doing a flan mead. I was thinking either caramelize the honey lightly before fermentation or add caramel extract in post for the caramel flavor. Half my family is puerto rican and I grew up and still make flan de queso which is just adding a brick of philly cream cheese to the flan batter and it comes out like a cheese cake/flan-custard hybrid which is to die for. I would LOVE to see your take on it.
😳....oh my. Must do!!
I’ve never made mead before and would like to start. Watched your beginner video and hopped to this one. I’m definitely gonna try it now. Thank you. Oh yeah. Candy!!
Hope you enjoy!
One technique that we have had success with for simulating, creamy pies, etc. Is to use a combination of vanilla, lactose and vanilla wafers. The wafers, or even graham crackers, tend to sink to the bottom so they aren't exposed to air and prone to molding as you had Indicated was a concern
Fair enough.
12:57 it won't break, it won't break! It broke...
17:39 fuzzy wazzy was a bear, fuzzy wazzy isn't in there.
33:55 candy
45:29 but is it Dolphin Smooth?
55:51 Nat-20's, critical success!!!
Im also partial to cheesecake nice work gonna definitely try this one and perhaps a second with blueberry. 😊
You two teach us so much, and you make it more fun than should be legal.
By the way, something you said made me ask myself "What if someone doesn't have a scale to measure ounces of honey?", so I looked up how much a cup of honey weighs, and found it weighs 12 ounces. Two cups of honey is 1.5 pounds, and 1/3 of a cup is 4 ounces. Now I can measure my honey without spending the money for a nice digital scale. :D
I would still recommend a scale. Our small one is like $15. Far more accurate to use weight than volume: amzn.to/4eNFNs2
I like the new scoring system, but I would think a 10 point scale would allow comparison between the old scores and the new scores, espescially when you have a 1 year tasting on the old scoring system. Plus with this sytstem, there will be no more 11s... I'll miss those. On a different note, this is a FANTASTIC video. I can't wait to try this
This wine sounds amazing and I definitely like the improved scoring system.
Thanks!
First mead I made reached .992 and I was freaking out not knowing why it was so low I found out it was okay and now I’m glad it’s mention in this video. Abv below 1.000 is dry and strong alc
CANDY........will be adding this to my brew list. This week starting Mt. DEW real sugar mead. Root beer Mead and Peach mead
Wow, I couldn't sleep, so I have watched your latest brew video instead 😊
Its colour reminds me of ruby red cooked quinces, yum yum:)
I would really like to try making this sometime 😊
It's really good!
Made a batch of my “interpretation” on a Vikings Blood, had 3 lbs of wildflower honey, 3 lbs of a dark sweet cherry berry blend, added some elderberry some rose hips and a huckleberry black tea that I really enjoy, went to go take my original gravity reading and it was well over the last marking on my hydrometer! Super active and happy fermentation going on, had to already switch to the blow off tube for all intensive purposes haha
I wish you luck but a stall is likely!
@@CitySteadingBrews I was thinking the same thing, I have some yeast hulls and other yeast nutrient and the other half of my yeast packet left so hopefully I’ll be able to get it back up to snuff when all is said and done! Is that kind of normal with a higher og? Or was it with the elderberry and rose hips?
Haha, at 26:50 when you look at the cherries before racking, some of those cherries actually looked like the "eyeballs" you says to watch out for. 😆
Lol
54:08 said like a true Brit ! 😁
57:14 I don't know if it would be considered a desert mead, but a mocha mead has been in my head for a while.
Candy!! This sounds really good, maybe make it into strawberry cheesecake. 😋
Thank you for taking me to the candy shop.
Lol.
All aboard to the Fermen Station! Next stop Brewville!
Lol
Very nice thanks. I came to learn how to add a dairy/milky (or cheese) type flavor ina brew to pair with chocolate. I stayed cuz i was craving candy.
Just lovely. Also we do notice, especially when it's made of plastic not paper and the scissors come out. Candy anyone?
Key lime pie
Now on to strawberry and Blueberry cheesecakes
Ooh. I have left over frozen tart cherries the candy store (Aldi). I might try this one now.
I liked Derika's reference of the "dear Liza" round. I remember it from Sesame Street in the early 70's. (There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza dear Liza, there's a hole in my bucket dear Liza a hole. Well fix it dear Henry......e.t.c. ).
Yup!
Sounds fantastic! I can't think of anything better on cheesecake than cherry, imo. Maybe a tropical fruit compote would be #2. I would do this one with a short cinnamon stick extraction for a lil extra kick.
Could do that, sure.
Ah DnD dice for the scoring!!!
:)
Another fantastic video!!! Love the new grading system too. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and we'd get the famous Eli's Cheesecake...YUM! I don't know which is my favorite cherry or blueberry. This will be on my MUST of meads to do...SOON! As for suggestions, we all grew up loving candy, but I'm a chocoholic! I love anything chocolate. You've done a few meads using chocolate, but how about a fudge-flavored mead?
Hmm... could check into it!
Another cool video. I scrolled through the old videos and either it hasn't been done or I missed it (LOL) but also being (South) Floridian maybe Key Lime pie Mead?
Yup, not been done. But, we are thinking up a recipe for it.
I got one of them spaddles. I can confirm its usefulness.
Pretty cool, huh?
I've used tart cherry juice from whole foods with decent results. Cherry wine or mead requires residual sugar to be palatable much like pomegranate.
I feel like some sort of warning should be added to this channel, and displayed on all of it's video's. They reel you in with an innocent looking lychee mead video that just randomly popped up on your feed and before you know it, your entire garage is taken over by fermenters and all of your friends are alcoholics from all of the free booze you're giving them to try out. Anyways, 10/10 would recommend. Thanks for the amazing new hobby!
Lol, too funny. Thanks for watching.
my store didn't have the oregon brand cherry but they did have the blueberry, so guess i will be making blueberry cheesecake!
We have links to the cherry in the description, but either works!
In some cases, leaving the cherry pits can actually add a very welcome flavor and aroma of almond. Several cherry liqueur and Brandy manufacturers will leave about 30% of the pits in for this reason
The cherries were pitted 😉
Candy!!
I just made a blackberry jam mead with a hint of mint extract
Candy?
Candyyyy!!!!
We need a super cut of every time Brian abuses the hydrometer in this video.
I really don't know why it kept happening!
No weezing the juuuuice 😁 Candy 😅 LOLz
Hello from the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia 🇦🇺 😊
Our local meadery makes a fruchoc mead, its desert like - as this..
Fruchoc, is milk chocolate and dried Apricot flavor... I'd love to see your reaction to tasting this!!!
We have our own bee's, we're hoping to make our own variety of mead's soon ♡
I believe the graham cracker would have come through easier if you had used Caramelized honey. You might try using caramelized honey on a mead in the future. When mead used to be extremely popular, making it from caramelized honey was considered one of the best tasting ways to make it. If you try it though be careful. When browning the honey you have to continually stir it so it doesn’t burn and it can spit. It may be possible to buy it caramelized though which would be much easier
It's a bochet, we have done a few on the show.
there is also powdered cream cheese you can use in it. I know, I didn't know it was a thing either and I am all about cheesecake so I am getting some lol.
I just sweetened one to 1.040 and I am not done dinking with it lol. My view is to do what the Mead NEEDS there is no wrong level of sweetness. If it makes your tastebuds happy then that is all that matters!
Exactly!
Question about back sweetening. I have issues with sugar. How bad would it be to do part sugar substitute and part honey?
Totally up to you. It will taste different, of course.
Would it be prudent to remove the fruit off the top between readings to assist with clearing?
It won't actually change it.
Candy, candy, candy!
candy... my fave candy at that
😮 Nice tease!
What is North Mountain Supply sending? Is it their translucent bucket?
BTW, I cannot tell you how much that pitcher has made brewing a lot easier.
Many things. We are working with them on products now too.
Candy wine sounds delicious!! Could you ferment Skittles, or even Sour Patch Kids?
I guess? Dunno.