How to Make a Hopped Blueberry Session Mead (Super Crushable!)
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2021
- Today we're making a Hopped Blueberry Session mead! This is a mead that is generally lower ABV and super crushable. I think this mead would be perfect for summertime. Check out the recipe below and be sure to watch the video to learn how to make it. Cheers!
Hopped Blueberry Hydromel Recipe:
3.75 Pounds of Blueberry Honey
3 Gallons of Water
5 Grams of YLP-005
1 oz of Galaxy Hops
26.5 Grams of Priming Sugar (or the carbonation tablets)
Erythritol for back sweetening (if bottle carbonating)
2 tsp of DAP
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I wanted to say thank you, I tried this recipe out, bottled it a few weeks ago. I had a large group of friends over last night for a bonfire and we all enjoyed it… Love your content and recipes. Thank you for all the hard work you do.
I’m happy I could help and I’m glad it went well!
Time to pitch the yeast!
*Literally pitches the yeast*
JK, Looks great!
You could also bottle carbonate then pasteurize the bottles in 180 degree water for 10 min or so. This will allow you to keep is sweet with natural sugars, and kill the yeast so they don't explode.
I use my sous vide to help keep the temp up.
Happy Brewing!
I love that you used a fat tire glass, I used to live in fort collins. lots of brewery tours at new belgium in my time :)
Pitch it, don't ditch it! mead looks summer smashable though dude. Please keep em coming!
I haven’t made a low abv beverage yet. This one sounds pretty good. Thanks Garrett 🤗
I’m happy to share!
Dang, this one looks great. Might have to try it myself.
You should!
sad face when the yeast spilled. I get the white labs pitch pouches with the screw on/off cap so i can close it back up if i don't use the whole pouch :)
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Ooh! I actually just got a 5 gallon kegging system and I'm super excited to start using it!
Another reason why your fermentation may have never taken off with the ale yeast is because DAP is toxic to yeast in their wake up/rehydration phase. Usually it's best to wait ~24 hours after pitch and you notice fermentation has started (AKA after the lag phase) to add DAP.
Good point!
@@ManMadeMead I was recently schooled on this topic. Since I didn’t know any better, I’ve been adding the DAP along with my yeast. Low & behold, my fermentation’s are strong and I’ve seen no I’ll effects whatsoever by adding them together.
Going to try this soon
Let me know how you like it!
@@ManMadeMead I'm just about to rack my first ever mead thanks to you
I loved the part when you dropped in the cage... "Hey look it sinks." I LMAO. That was great! Your videos are well done even the blooper parts. It all helps those of us who are so new to mead making. I can't wait to try out this recipe. Is this recipe considered a 5 gallon batch or a 3 gallon batch? I have a 3 gallon and 5 gallon carboy. Not sure which one I should use.
Just found this today and I have a blueberry hopped mead in the fermenter. Weird coincidence.
trust me you dont have to tell me how many grams a half ounce is 😂 cool video dude!! ive been doing wines and ciders over covid but havent done a mead yet. this seems super fun
You should definitely try it!
I would really like to see this process done only with the honey. I like carbonated drinks and would like to learn how to make them with honey so they don't blow up.
Great video m8! When i saw the batch size I was thinking - he knows this is going to be great :-). I am a Centennial Hop fan have tried Galaxy Hops, Was thinking of trying Citra Hops but might skip to Galaxy. Have you tried any others listed? Also 2 days for hopping wasn't too much?
I actually felt like my ratio of hops to days worked well! It wasn't too strong which was great! I haven't tried a ton of other hops. That's on the docket for the future!
Hey great mead going there. I wanted to add that from my experience, k1v 1116 doesn't bottle carb well in general and i looked it up later on lalvin's site. it says that this yeast does not produce a prominent secondary fermentation when removed from its lees. It works great though with cold crashing i did that years ago with sack meads, one was finished and cleared in 2 weeks lol
Interesting! I haven’t had any terrible problems with carbing with it, but I could see why it might have problems!
@@ManMadeMead I forgot something else, its also a strain that can metabolize maltose, so maybe a consideration for making braggots? i havent done it myself yet but making meads flavoured with specialty malts works like a charm
Note to self: Try priming sugar in secondary. I do it all the time with kombucha. Why not mead?
You should start saving all your sediment junk I na nice clean bucket and see how much it clears and ship it off to a distillery and see what happens haha
Was this a 5 gallon batch? I assume the carboy is 6 gallons and that's why it wasn't filled up all the way. Super keen to try this recipe.
This one was actually closer to 3 gallons!
recipe looks great...can you explain in little more detail how you pureed the blueberries and when and if you added pectanase how much etc...be good to understand how you created as i am beginner thanks so much
You can puree them with a blender or you can just use a something to smash them up quite a bit! Add the pectic enzyme or pectic enzyme when you start the brew or right on the fruit 24 hours before you start the brew!
If you added more carb drops or primed it like a beer I assume it would carb more?
It would have definitely helped add some sugar and hopefully bottle carb it better!
Any recommendations on scaling down to a 1 gallon recipe?
I would just divide by whatever you need!
I have a question concerning K1V-1116 yeast. I have some but have read that it is a yeast killer. So, being super paranoid, I have not tried it out yet. Is this something that will get into a plastic fermentor and take over in future batches of homebrewed beer, mead, cider? Or am I just super ocd/paranoid? My sanitation is on point. Thank You
That only matters if you are trying to use multiple yeasts in a brew! It shouldn't matter otherwise!
After backsweetening with erythritol, taking an FG reading is skewed since it's not as sweet as other sweeteners, right? For example, if you had two dry brews and both were backsweetened to 1.010 but one was backsweetened with honey and the other had erythritol, wouldn't the brew backsweetened with honey be discernably sweeter since the gravity points of erythritol and honey are comparable?
I definitely think there could be a difference in sweeteners. So - you're right! I think the final gravity would definitely be different from if I were to back sweeten with regular honey or some other substitute!
how many of conditioning tablets would you use for a 750 ml flip top?
I would add 2 tablets! Most are graded for 12 ounces of brew each
So you need to carbonate more at the end typically? Doing my first mead right now.
This brew is way better carbonated! If you don't do it carbonated, I would recommend doubling the blueberries and honey to make it a stronger mead... it'll be pretty watery without the carbonation.
what would be a good alternative yeast I could use? I can't find this yeast in Canada. And what would be an alternative hops I could buy? I'm in Canada and it's like $50 to get.
Can you get Lalvin yeasts there? Also, any hop profile that highlights or compliments blueberries! You can lots of hop characteristics online!
i don't know a lot about melomels and hopped meads, but i'm kinda confused about the total time, with my traditional mead it took several month to be barely drinkable (around 3weeks primary + 2/4 month secondary for clarification and carboy conditioning, correct me if i'm wrong), here instead it ends in 9 days + 2 days of hopping + 3 weeks bottle conditioning (1 month total)...shouldn't it be yeasty as hell? just asking, i just want to know more :)
I was curious myself, I’m about to start this recipe myself. I’ll comment later on when it’s finished if you’d like and let ya know how it turns out.
I almost exclusively make hydromels, but have made some standard, higher ABV meads and understand your concern. The short answer is no. Unfortunately I’m not knowledgeable enough to know exactly why, but I think it’s due to the yeast only consuming 50ish points of gravity in sugars, there tends not to be nearly as much yeast compared to it fermenting on 100+ points. It’s not a linear scale as ABV increases, it’s orders of magnitude more yeast, so more yeasty.
I've read some conflicting information about bottling carbonated meads and wines in regular wine bottles. Is this okay or should I use beer and champagne bottles?
You can’t carbonate something in a regular cork wine bottle. The corks will fly out! You can cork in champagne bottles with the cages on top because they’re intended for carbonation. Beer bottles (bottles with crown caps) and those champagne bottles are graded for pressure. Regular wine bottles are not!
For how long did you hop it? How much per liter//gallon?
It was only hopped for about 5 days. I did .5 oz for the whole 3 gallons because the hops were strong!
@@ManMadeMead thanks!
Do you drink mead at room temp or chilled?
I find that really depends on the mead. I usually try to taste mine at room temperature before I chill them to see how they go both ways. In general I'd say fruity/sweet meads are best chilled and spiced/dry meads are just fine at room temp
It depends on the style!
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How long did you hop it for?
This was hopped for 5 - 7 days but you should just taste yours regularly to know when you want to take it off the hops!
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