Blueberry Mead V2 - One Year Tasting! - AKA Backwards Blueberry Mead
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2024
- It's been a whole year, and this mead has been waiting to be tasted! Blueberry Mead... we've got a couple versions of it, but, this might be the best!
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I always look forward to the 1 year tasting videos!
Me too
I wanna see some 3-5 years taste tests
I look forward to these videos too.
It can a really fun ride listening to their reactions.
Same here❤
Me too too
Blueberries and honey. Yummy 😋
I just made a blueberry pineapple mead. It is incredible. 1 pint blueberries, 1 pineapple, 1 mug of black tea, honey, lalvin K1-V116, 1.07 starting gravity. Went dry within a week. Best mead I have made in years. Pineapple comes through like crazy! Should give it a try!
Sounds good!
I just bottled my Blueberry mead and I'm happy that my color, that I thought would be deeper purple, came out the same as yours. Mine is super clear too, and it is only 4 months old
I have the blessing of owning 60 acres of blueberry . Which gives me access to both blueberries and honey . This is the only mead I've ever made . I keep a few bottles up at the U -pick stand for the parents to taste when they bring the kids Iol😅
I really enjoy these 1 year tasting videos. Cheers 😀 👍 🍷
Sounds wonderful. Ive finally set a few bottles aside for 1 year tastings
I will have to second your reactions & scores on this Blueberry Mead~! We made some along with you last year and it has been one of our favorites, previously we only thought so because of the hard work picking all the blueberries made it taste better~! But after watching your video, we think this recipe is something extra special~!
Something we have found in any of our meads that we make with fresh/frozen fruit, is that the fermentation really goes wild. Our elderberry mead & mulberry mead both went totally crazy and the ABV skyrocketed. Another fruit that just kept going was from a variety of fresh apples (we used Gala, Honeycrisp, Golden Delicious, Enterprise, & Red Rome) that I steam juiced to use the juice in our mead, it was so yummy with the spices added to it.
We wondered if you ever thought of doing a PawPaw mead???? We had a bottle years ago and it was SOOOOO good. We have PawPaw trees planted in a small patch in our timber, just waiting for them to start producing....then we will be playing around with a recipe~! Thanks for all your teaching and ideas for awesome recipes~!~!
They don't grow here and have very short shelf lives... so... difficult.
Now that the season is upon us, I guess that this is my next project, though not in my usual 6 gallon batch. Due to the exorbitant cost of honey, I am only doing a single gallon. Boo Hoo!
I made a batch of blueberry mead, following your previous recipe. It turned out REALLY well, but I only got 4.5 bottles out of the batch, due to a spill during racking. I was planning on saving a bottle for a one year tasting...but...well...it was all gone in a month. Drank some myself, gave some bottles away, it's gone.
Today, I'm starting two batches in 1.5gal little bigmouths, and I'm determined to have a bottle last a year!
Excited for this one!
I made a blueberry mead last fall & it turned out amazing! I combined what ive learned from you & a a few of my own ideas & definitely hit a homerun with it. I cant believe how much better it is even now. You two are the best! Thank you!
Awesome! Great job!
We liked it so much we've stashed a couple bottles and getting ready to start a new batch.
Good plan!
ahah you both are so lovely. Thanks for the one year...hubby and I just last week chilled all cozy and stuff watching the predecessor (making of). I am 1 month into first batch of mead being done...4 more gallons to follow it because of course, I did one a week. I am going to pick one of them at some point to try back flavouring with Montemorency (tart) Cherry juice. I wonder how it will go.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don't even like blueberries, but I would like to try this!😁
Ahhh guys ❤❤❤ I'm all out of mead.. I'm refusing to open the best bottles and trying to gain a years conditioning on them.
Time to make more!!
@@EirsHandBotanicals Oh yeah 3 new one repeat have happened. 😁
Another great video! I’m going to try a blueberry mead as soon as the crop comes in in New Jersey, I was wondering what type of yeast you used, I’ve used D-47 and Red Star Priemer Rouge, still looking to try others. Keep up the great work guys! Cheers!
It should be in the original video... linked in the description.
I make a no water blueberry mead with blueberry blossom honey. Its amazing.
you guys should try to make a blueberry lemonade mead it's definitely worth it
One of my next attempts. 😋
The Pour Cam should always be your intro. It's so good.
We will for Tastings... not sure about recipe vids, but it could be I guess?
@@CitySteadingBrews I think it would be good. Maybe try it a few times and see if anyone comments either way on it?
Could try it.
We just finished our year blueberry mead in March. It was funny because we were actually making a beer and as a side note I was like we should really do something with that mead lets get it bottled. So we went to get setup and we didn't have enough bottles. So I was like there is an open keg lets keg it. So we kegged and force carbonated at 40 psi over night, never did this before, and it was fantastic!
Cool! Keeping it cold will help too.
Last year I made blueberry mead that was too sweet for me ( I used juice instead of berries). So I brewed an extra dry mead to cut it with. Of course I lost some of the blueberry flavor, but the final blend was still delish. I drank two pints of it last night; I’m a little sluggish today.
That's a great idea!
Lava no. Blueberry Mead YES!
Has it already been a year? I saw this one back in november, immediately had to copy, and I have six bottles in the back of the closet now.
Not to get off topic, like making various in season fruit wines (plum, cherry, blueberry, strawberry)...thoughts on blending 50% previous brews with new year brews for 3-5 years or more...same yeast, methods except what fruit is available...keep mixing and tasting
Of course you can blend!
Just wanted to give you a new comment when you check em next! Im about to start the blueberry cider you have here. It looked nice. Hope it turns out similar.
Good luck!
I wish I had friends who also home brews. I made blueberry mead it tastes good I just feel like it's missing something and I'm not sure how to pin point what that is lol
Please, would you like to make a video where you talk about how to avoid off flavors and how to possibly repair a poorly balanced mead. For example, I am standing here at home with a mead that has acquired a strong aftertaste from having had a cinnamon stick in the mead for far too long - what do you do now? How do you get a good balance between sweetness, sourness and added flavors? What other tips do you have? Thank you for a brilliantly good channel and it is thanks to both of you that I currently have about thirty mead fermentations going on in the cellar 😎 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪 😊
Off flavors happen for dozens of reasons. Overextracted cinnamon is really difficult to fix if it can really be. You can dilute the mead and that's about it. It doesn't fade in time though it could mellow slightly. Balance is personal taste imo. If it needs more of something, we add it.
@@CitySteadingBrews Thanks for your quick feedback - very much appreciated.
Another tasting that makes my lower jaw tingle. 😂 This is definitely on my list to do. Have you guys ever given an 11 rating and if so, for what mead/wine/cider?
We have... not remembering which ones. We do have a scorecard of all of them though: city-steading.com/city-steading-score-card/
@@CitySteadingBrews Perfect. Thanks!
Hi,
have you guys considered trying to make a carrot wine or mead?
My second batch of carrot wine turned out amazingly good. My third batch will be ready soon.
But it has to age for a year to be really good, really young and it tastes like fire water.
We have something along those lines coming Sunday.
I'm interested to know your thoughts on when your scores go down after 1 year. Would you say that the brew was a little worse after a year or that your tastes changed? I guess it's hard to remember exactly what something tasted like a year ago.
Tastes change mostly. In rare cases they may have actually gone down.
My blueberry wine turned out petulant too, that's not typically a problem I have.
Mild fermentation occurred most likely bit it still had sweetness so it didn't fully ferment out.
I'm new to mead making. What's a good beginner's recipe to make in one gallon quantities? My bees are making the honey right now!
Easiest, but good tasting is probably this one: ua-cam.com/video/f7a8oKvGJOk/v-deo.htmlsi=ynC0sxoroQsgRYTB
What is your favorite yeast to use in your meads? And what is your second and third?
If I had to choose? 71B. Maybe Premier Classique after that, but yeast choice depends on many factors, and is dependent on the recipe really.
@@CitySteadingBrews what label making machine do you use? And have you seen one that you want but haven’t purchased yet for whatever reason??
I'm wondering if it feels drier than It was when bottled , and it's peddlent if it fermented. Maybe doing a hydrometer reading would give us more info?
It may have a little.
This is the one that you used blueberry juice correct? I really want to give this recipe a try
Yes it is. Added in conditioning.
So i have a 5 gallon batch of mead fermenting right now. when it's done i would like to devide it into 5 one gallon fermenters and make different flavors. one of the flavors i want to try is vanilla mead by adding vanilla bean to the brew and letting it sit. my question is would there be a specific amount of time i should let it sit with the vanilla bean or does it not matter how long it sits?
You will need to monitor and test. Beans are a biological product so there is a lot of variance.
Haha same score
Are you using "wide" to mean the opposite of it tasting very "one note"? Because that's how it makes sense to me.
Sort of. Mouth filling, broad, full. If that makes sense.
Is the propolis from the honey
Propolis is usually removed from honey before sale.
What does meat actually taste like? Wine or beer?
Mead is quite variable actually. Plain traditional mead is most like white wine though.
im gonna buy welches grape juice and the frozen mixed beeries then boil the boil!s omg then ima gonna nake sangria
Day 2 of asking you guys to make vinegar out of honey
We will eventually. Asking constantly won't really help.
So which one of you is blueberry and which one of you is honey :)
I cant drink any of my mead right now because im doing Keto and I have TWO GALLONS nearng the end of secondary conditioning lol. doh!
If has fermented out dry then most of the sugars / carbs should be gone :) did Keto for years and there are ways and means, for small amounts. Also if have the cheat day can enjoy some once a week.. Some spirits are easier than wine / mead level things to fit a bit in. Keep up the great work, loved the time was on keto!