We made the WORLDS OLDEST FERMENTED BEVERAGE | Honey to Mead Complete HOW TO!
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This is a COMPLETE HOW TO from HARVESTING HONEY, what to look for, BEST WAY TO EXTRACT and then HOW TO MAKE MEAD and finally HOW TO BOTTLE. please share the video. We all need to learn the skills from yesterday! THIS IS THE MOST COMPLETE VIDEO ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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Awesome. I’m SO interested. Thanks again, Doug and Dr Leo.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing all your information and this man’s exceptional knowledge. Hope your mother is settling in nicely and enjoying the cabin you all built for her. God bless!
Are you going to let us see how you finished Mom's home at all? You never did show us the last part at all. & what about your Mom moving in to it??? I have been waiting to see that.
Pepto Bismol-Bismuth subsalicylate.
We have the same medicine as Germany for tummy troubles.
Very true simple is better
Genius is not made, they are born. Love these guys so interesting to listen to them. I think I will never feel lazy learning from them. Schools need teachers like this. 👍
Simply an amazing and superbly presented demonstration. Had me captivated the entire time, Thank you!
NAILED IT Partner!!!!!
Yeah...me too! SO informative
LOVE THIS! When I think of Dr. Leo these words come to mind: extreme intellect, complete passion for all things bees and compassion for nature and humanity, and appreciation for slow living! He is a lovely human and I appreciate videos that teach me something new. Thank you guys. And for those wound up about the cabin video content halt... Doug and Stacy are allowed to show other content - remember they bring us these videos for FREE & they get to choose when and what they show us, I think it’s disrespectful to basically demand certain content. Thanks again, keep up the great work!
Are you kidding? Research the $$$ made by UA-cam. Also, free speech is free speech no exceptions. People have a right to ask whatever they want...just as Doug and Stacey have a right to grant or deny the requests
@@ambergaia1448 Your 1st Amendment rights are certainly protected, just be aware there may be social consequences of saying stupid shit.
Until he put out a video explaining why they stopped, there were a lot of unanswered questions, which people are allowed to ask. Sounds like you are the one "wound up."
Doug&Stacy just ROCK X
Dr. Leo is brilliant, that’s one of the many reasons we care and respect him.👍🏻awesomeness🐝”
Doug, Leo, I could listen to you two talking for hours and did! You both have the knack of gently conveying information without ramming it down the students' necks! So thank you for this video, entertaining and informative. Regards, Stephen.
I love how happy and enthusiastic Doug is always trying to be.
wow!! what an education!! Dr. Leo is so thorough, easy to follow and appeals to my need to understand his processes by explaining why… I could really see Doug absorbing this information too!! I will dream about getting a gift of mead ;)
Wink wink
Love this video, so interesting and informative .. Dr. Leo is an amazing teacher .. I love to see Doug and Dr. Leo working together .
These frames and so beautiful!!! I love Dr. Leo's style of hives. Dr. Leo your daughter is so gifted, this print is awesomely beautiful! So cool to learn about mead, I have heard about it but did not know what it is or how to make it! Many thanks. I love learning from Dr. Leo! What a great tutorial with Dr. Leo.
I've been wanting to build a hive like that. The Langstroth ones we use are just to much of a problem.
I love it when you can tell within a few minutes that you share a philosophy on life with someone 100%. What a great guy, I will gladly buy the accumulation of knowledge that resulted from true passion from anybody, even if I never get around to starting my own hives.
You really NEED to try beekeeping! It truly is a lifechanging expérience! For the MUCH better!
Wow!!! Doug I've been praying for someone to show me how to do this! Thank you and Dr Leo!!! I've only read books, but like Dr Leo I've been interested in it for it's medicinal values. Think I'll be watching this video over and over, and sharing with friends! Thank you , thank you!!! Shalom!
What an education in one easily digested video. Thank you both!
wow, his daughter is very talented!
I’m so glad to see this video, I enjoyed the laundry one too! The cabin build was cool, but I missed the videos like those I mentioned!! But, thank y’all for all you share!!! I’ve been going back through videos and re-watching fermentation videos, many others. Y’all are a blessing to many. ☺️🙏
There's a laundry video!? Awesome!
I love it when Dr Leo is here! Doug and the Dr make a good team and share such important information about the bee’s and their care with the world! Thanks for this video. 😊👍 ~Sharon
Did you know in Europe, some people expose their backside to bee hives, in HOPES of a sting? The bee venom is supposed to help arthritis pain. Other health issues. Lambs wool, un-cleaned, helps with it too. The oil in the wool. All kind of old world remedy's. Grated potatoes for severe burns. Scorpion sting.
Dr. Leo: "That last time I used, before doing mead, was to clamp the umbilical cord of my home born child." When I heard this, I grabbed my heart.. Dr. Leo is a book of knowledge. I enjoyed the video tremendously!
Used what? I don't understand
Is this beverage purely used as medicinal? If so, for what health purpose?
@@questionsfrog1918 his wife had a homebirth and they saved the clamp used on the baby’s cord to use in the mead making
Thanks for having Dr Leo on your channel. Wife and I drove cross country to attend his two day bee class this past summer, and we wouldnt have known about him and the Layens "micro" revolution without seeing him here in action first. Excellent stuff.
I love the different personalities expressed in the same activity. Dr. Leo is a GREAT educator and Doug a great student !
You guys have taught me so much, very impressed. Built my own hives thanks to Dr Leo and am now crushing with my own bees too!
🙌
Because of you guys, I am beginning my journey down this path of beekeeping!
What happen to mom's cabin you was building for her. We all would like to see the rest of the build. Thanks for shareing your and Stacie life. I am from North Carolina. Just really missing the video's. Hope to see more of your video's.
That's what I've been asking, too.
I was curious about the same thing!
Give Doug time to do cabin videos when he is ready. Be patient. He needs to rest and kept up on all his other chores.
Looks like they don’t have time to answer…maybe that the bees had to be done before …
Why no tasting notes?
I really enjoyed this video on making mead and working with the bees.
Mead is great, no hangover vs wine.
@@Off-Grid anyone got a recipe? Better..a tutorial? Link? Anyone?
@@cryingbroken8824 I thought we had a video on my wife's channel but I can't find it now. Hers is just The 5th Journey. We're building right now but I hope to make some mead again soon once things have settled down and I have time too.
I love these videos with Dr. Leo, very educational and entertaining.
From one mead maker to another...Dr. Leo, you have my deepest respect! My father spent most of his life making wine as a professional wine maker in Germany and was even one of the pioneers of winemaking in Denmark. However, since Denmark isn't ideal for grapevine to say the least (that's changing now with the climate change), in the late 1990s he had switched to mead making. So I grew up with it, and have been making mead myself for 20 years now. I honestly did not think I would at this point learn anything new about it, but I have.
I've heard long ago about raw honey having plenty of natural yeast in the polen, I established good relationship with a few local bee keepers and have tried the natural fermentation quite a few times, but eventually gave up on it as I never had success with it. Either the fermenting would stuck completely or could only go up to the beer level of ABV. It wasn't pleasant to taste...etc.
And now I find out the polen needs to be fresh!
I'll definitely try again, for my own personal pleasure, although I will continue using commercial yeast too as I need to turn batches every year, or even twice a year. The really cool thing with mead is so many possibilities for creativity even with commercial yeast. For one, there are so many different strains of yeast, so many different honey varietals, so many adjuncts to experiment with, and then on top of it all...even when using all the same ingredients and the same type of yeast, I've never had two batches that turned out the same. And no pressure for them to be the same, unlike in the wine industry where you need to blend with old batches because it Pinot Noir has to taste as Pinot Noir. I find that attitude suffocating.
Anyhow, I apologize..did not want to go on for this long, but I share the passion so seeing this has triggered so many memories and thoughts in me.
I'm so grateful to have gotten this video in my recommendations and for having the gut feeling I should watch it! Great stuff all around! 👍👍
Btw, the russian pronunciation of med is similar to danish mjød, except our d sounds more like an h sound mixed with a d.
Edit: When using auto siphon, you don't need to be pumping all the time. A few pushes will start the siphon and from then on out, gravity takes over.
And the trick with the bottling wand is to press the valve down while you're pumping to start the initial flow. Once the entire tube and the wand are filled, which again should take a couple of pumps and a few seconds, then you can proceed normally from there; push it down for the liquid to flow, and lift it up in order for it to stop e.g. while you're moving onto the next bottle.
Doug and Stacy & Dr. Leo, so greatfull I have this opportunity seeing this replay thank you for sharing and making it available . I really learn from watching these videos, the best space to be in learning knowledge is together with Doug and Stacy & Doctor Leo 🤗😇😇 I appreciate your time you'll sharing this very valuable revelation.
It’s a joyous thing , harvesting all that beautiful honey .😋😃🐝🐝🐝
This was just so fantastic…unbelievably enlightening on how to make it yourself and the history all the way back to Egypt…and beautiful artwork as well….Just wonderful…thank you Dr. Leo for sharing all of this with us…you are just one of the best beekeepers the world is a better place because of you….thank you so much…thanks for letting us be part of the beekeeping community. Love being part of the old ways of doing things…Just the best
I really enjoyed the almost meditative gentle work with the bees and detailed explanation of the processes for the transfer to a horizontal hive. Dr. Leo is such a great guest! His daughter's art was astounding. I especially loved the Egyptian inspired piece. Thank you for sharing all this information.
Great artwork on the hive and good to see you and Doc👍🏻😊
Wow his daughter is talented 🥰😍 loved this whole video! I appreciate all this learning ❤️🙏🏻 thank you
This was such a fun video, thanks for taking the time to make it.
Wow so much to learn ,thanks for sharing this is so much info 🙏👌👍👍
Hey, everybody used to be saying we want more homestead garden, fermenting & they gave us fermenting mead. They have to get the bees ready for winter. Mom could be in & needs a break also. Be kind & a little patient. He'll get er done. I'm just glad to see them.😁
I agree!! ☺️
I was just wondering about Mom’s house. I watched the complete build up to where you were hooking up the electric, then nothing. Would love to see the finished house. Please!!
I agree with you. Was also wondering?
He just put out a story video where he talks about this a bit.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us. I love the press. God bless!
THANK YOU LOVE YOU DR. LEO
Another art master piece . Your daughter makes desirable art work .🤩
Oh my! This was so informative! Dr. Leo’s mead is so beautiful! That dark rich color… I love Dr. Leo’s passion for bees! Thank you, Doug, and Dr. Leo, for this very educational video.
I love Leo, he's such a wealth of information, and bees are on my 5 year plan, so I'm definitely paying attention.
Only 4 years away....the end of the world is coming soon....so maybe just consider going ahead and starting now :)
@@johnlovorn4641 Um, ok?
Hi, can you tell us about the log cabin? Missing the progress you were making on it.
Hope you are well, and hope to see your Moms cabin soon.
Thank you Dr. Leo! You are a wealth of information!
This is absolutely the most wonderful video I’ve seen in forever. I know you know you have the best mentor for natural beekeeping there is, Doug. What a great educational video. I sure would like to taste that mead!!! I bet it will be wonderful!
Mead does take many years to "mellow". The mead-maker must be very diligent to keep track of the dates of the bottled vintages (a label on each bottle is helpful).
Mead-makers - in the beginning - tend to get too anxious to sample their product before it has had sufficient time to properly ferment out. Young mead is very harsh
and will turn-off first time drinkers. I made mead back in the 90's and won some local home-brewer competitions but when Dr. Leo says "10 to 15 years"...that is not
an exaggeration ! Over time, the mead will develop a gentle carbonation and have a very dry, not too sweet profile, with a noticeable "alcohol burn" when swallowed.
It rly is
This is the quality of ed vid ppl pay gobs of money for
TY, sirs!
@@urbanurchin5930 wooooow
A decade?!
Thank you Doug and Stacy for sharing your lives with others. I very much enjoyed seeing the darling newborns and hearing nuggets of wisdom from your store of experience and knowledge. You have blessed me today as it was a difficult Christmas season. Much love and God's goodness to you and yours!! 🥰
Oh nothing better then liquid gold. Love watching and learning about the bee hives. 🐝 🍯
I love Dr. Leo. When he is in one of your videos,Doug, I am guaranteed to learn something about bees and honey.
Like you I have never tried mead, but I really want to taste it as I love honey.
Thank you for a nice long video full of humor and information. It was good to see you back at it.
Thanks Deb!
Mead does not really taste very much like honey. It is very dry, will sometimes have very low carbonation, and has a "hot" alcohol bite.
Young mead is very harsh and is nearly undrinkable. The statement by Dr. Leo about allowing it to completely ferment out for 10 - 15 years is a MUST !
Thank you Doug and Stacy for the awesome bee keeper video. 🐝🐝🐝🌹🌺🌷🌸🌻
This guy is brilliant. It also shows that he really cares about the bees and takes the time to do it right for them as well. Awesome video.
Love this video 😊 honey is so beneficial. Thank you for so much free information! Y’all are awesome.
YES!!!! This new season of OGWD&S is starting off ON FIRE! Our friend Leo Sherashkin shows up on the scene to instruct on the ancient honey flow goodness.....
thanks for that! everyone is complaining about moms and are being real selfish, updates on the way along with all this goodness =)
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY you say that but you never did last time. Just an explanation would help.
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY I bought a hive trap from Leo's website last year (thanks to your inspiration from a year ago), but, I didn't catch a swarm. We will try again starting early next year. We will keep you updated on the result of this trap.... Thanks again.....
@@lovemyfamily60 He sure likes to insult his viewers doesn't he? After watching the build for six months, people are curious that's all.
i am so getting a horizontal hive! so blessed for finding this channel!!!
Thank you, Thank you !
You definitely had my full attention through the one hour 26 minutes and 16 seconds
Just wait til you RE-watch them. 🥰😍
Bees take time. I only have 4-8 hives at any given time and it takes hours to harvest.
Thanks Doug really informative and great watch. Sitting in a hotel for 5 days of quarantine and still awesome to be able to learn new things!
Every single of your videos with Dr. Leo are so soothing and informative! Best hours spent on UA-cam! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My son listened with me this time he’s so excited to try and learn. Thank you
Amazing!!!! Thank you and God bless you for shared this knowledge!!!!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us. I love ❤️ learning about bees 🐝
I Can’t wait to have some 🐝 of my own someday
Fascinating! This video is worthy of watching over and over again in whole or in part. We keep bees and have wanted to make mead. I am so glad to see this process, start to finish. For me, as a natural beekeeper, this video is so very special. I'm very grateful. ❤️🐝❤️🐝❤️🐝
I've been keeping bees for at least 10 years. I always learn something from you and dr. Leo , Doug. So informative.
You have a great opportunity to make a jug or 2 of Mead for health, I'd like to try a glass
How is your mom's cabin doing. I never did see the finish of the build. A lot of people would like to see how it went.
I bet there will be a bonanza vid...xxxx to all.
Doug just put out a story video where he explained it a bit.
that was great Doug and Dr if only I had another 7 years and some bees
7 years? You can get bees in the spring and have honey by June. Start up isn't to much for one hive. I just bought a cheap $20 suit and gloves of Amazon and built the box then ordered the frames (unassembled). I did buy my first set of bees but realized quickly that you can catch them for free and split the hive sometimes in the first summer but at least the following spring. Haven't paid for new bees since. Go for it!
@@Off-Grid 7 years is how long it took Dr Leo to make the mead they drank....
@@rickypoindexter9505 must have missed it. Did they let it age for 7yrs? We typically drink our after only a couple months. Lol, it never lasts much longer.
Doug...you gotta be the most Amish looking Non Amish dude ever. TOTAL props to you and the Amish people are my heroes.
My Amish peeps say I look more Amish than them 🤣
Thank you very much~
There needs to be an Off-Grid School. Classes that teach, off-grid power generation and storage, alcohol making, gardening, water catchment and storage, etc... Homesteading is the future and more Americans need to be more like our Grandparents.
I know there are Expos and such with classes. We plan to go to one in March '22.
I don’t think homesteading is the future unless the world sees a massive decrease/dying/killing off of the worlds population.
Great video, Doug and Leo. I thoroughly enjoy the process and tips.
Thank you for this utterly delightful presentation! Dr. Leo re-inforces my high opinion of the Russian people.
I have made all types of wines including mead! Dr. Leo’s instructions are spot on. Yes, there are certainly ways to speed up the process, but this is one of the best tutorials on using the ancient methods. Brilliant!
How sweet, Honey! Making Elderberry syrup so need to get me somelocal honey.
My mother used to make elderberry brandy...it was REALLY sweet!! probably like the elderberry syrup.😌
What happen to mom's cabin you was building for her. We all would like to see the rest of the build.
Surely the cabin home is done & occupied.... if we're good, perhaps Doug will give us a tour one day ha
That’s why we watched for all those days, then just as it was coming to completion it all stops. Strange
@@Dermot40 Doug just put out a lovely story video and explained a bit about the halt to the cabin building videos.
@@StoneKathryn link? Please?
@@cryingbroken8824 he burned out and switched to other projects for now-I believe
Great video!
WOW~ OUTSTANDING !!!
Always enjoy watching Dr. Leo! Very informative! Also love how the hive is decorated! 💙💙💙
I've failed at making mead a few times, thanks for the info guys.
Our first patch didn't make it either. Next time we did four different flavors and three of those made it. Blackberry was the best.
And by the way Stacey did a very good job with the video with the washer machine I enjoyed it
Great videos! I always wondered how honey was harvested! Thank you!!! Dr. Leo’s daughter has beautiful artwork to make the hives gorgeous!!!
You can see when the finished product was brought out for bottling that Dr. Lee started salivating this must really taste good love to try some but I would not be able to go through what you guys went through and since They can’t sell it I guess I’m out 😕 I found this gentleman to be very knowledgeable in this video to be very interesting thank you
I just loved this video Doug, Stacy and Dr Leo! Thank you! I have a couple of young kittens who were enjoying it sitting on my chest. I have 3 girl kitties and they all love watching your videos! Maybe I can get one of the pics emailed over to you if they turned out! Shalom and have a great Shabbat!
Thanks, Bee Team! And it was neat seeing the artwork on those two hives again.
Who is this guy ?? Now you guys are really blowing me away.!! Right on time, very respectful of Mother E., SUPER informative & correct. I'm re- watching this one again. I have extensive knowledge of beekeeping, honey production, some knowledge of queen rearing & while you guys were going thru the hives I couldn't help but ask, why no mention of what we know of, as the rainbow? Above all the brood chambers, the bees store pollen directly above the chamber & it's known as the rainbow. At least thats what I've learned. Readily available to the nurse bees to access easily for the new brood, up & coming.
When working with my friend & commercial beekeeper in Florida & elsewhere, the pollen is the bee's proteins, honey are the sugars. When viewing the rainbow, it is called that because, of all the different colors of pollen the bees store in the cells, same colors, same plant pollen, etc. Such amazing creatures aren't they ? Way to go, Doug & Stacy !!
The old ways of doing things always seem to be the best ways. Even with bees. Great video.
Yep, a lot of it now adays is just another way for some company to make money.
A most fascinating video. Thank you both so much!
Missed you. Glad you're back
Tell your daughter that her hive artwork is AMAZZZING! very beautiful, great job :)
A GREAT VIDEO DOUG. I WANT TO HAVE HORIZONTAL HIVES WHEN 8. BUY MY PROPERTY IN N. IDAHO NEXT SUMMER
Fantastic information, showing all the steps in detail. Incredibly empowering! Keep up the good work ☺️
Oh Oh DOUG I remember the TUBE us kids did the wine POTATOE WINE that Moma & Dad made we couldn't crawl up the basement steps we were only in grade school hahahaha !!! My Son makes wine of all different types in Northern WI. he has made some wonderful wines beautiful colors !!!
I love these videos with Dr. Leo! Thanks so much for posting! We are getting bees this spring, but after seeing this series have decided to switch from vertical to horizontal hives. Also, as a side note, I brewed beer for several years. The auto siphon, tubing and racking cane are totally worth the investment. Makes life a lot easier and all three put together will probably cost less than $40 and you can use them for wine, mead, beer making forever!
This was absolutely amazing to watch. I was thoroughly entertained and informed. Thank you so much!
Omg Doug you are hilarious! 🤣🤣😂 never resist leaving a head space! The first time I bottled my homemade wine, topping off was a needed experience…lol I don’t remember much after the 10th bottle…ha😂
beautiful painting of his daughters
Enjoyed this video. I'm not a wine drinker but this is very educational. I didn't even know you could make wine from honey
FYI- if you put half the water and shake it heck out of it. It will dissolve the honey. When you add the rest of the water just a little mixing.
Wouldn't it also mix better if you put water in first? Then the honey might ribbon in the water, when you add it?
Many thanks for this great video, very interesting and most enjoyable watch! I believe this is how bees should be worked with. Loving bees, honey, and mead :-) I loved learning so much with you here!
Nice to see painted beehive fronts. In my country (Slovenia), painting beehive fronts developed into folk art few centuries ago. There were dedicated painters to paint them and they were regarded as true artists.
Dr.Leo, Renaissance man. Thoroughly enjoyed the entire demonstration and video.
Just love how yall left everyone hanging on your mom's cabin build way to go Doug.
Patience grasshopper patience!😆
Please Stacy, let us see how things went with "Mom's Cabin", My husband is driving me crazy :) He's been following you guys for over a year. I have been following you for 5+ years. He's a retired carpenter. He lives vicariously through Doug, as many do, I suspect.
Here I come, tell em I burned out, he will get it
I would like to know also I was enjoying watching the house being built
*OFF GRID WITH DOUG AND STACY Honey Oldest fermented Beverage MEAD Listening from Mass USA TYVM 💙 Doug & 🐝 bee- expert horizontal hives*
mead is great... especially around Christmas and since it is so easy (although sometimes expensive) to make at home, it is also a great gift if you have done few batches already and have experience and thus be sure you are gifting a quality mead :)
U need 7-10-15 yrs even before it’s ready. Take that into consideration
@@YeshuaKingMessiah nonsense. It is like wine, there are many kinds of wine, most of them are bottled, sold and drank within 2 years after harvest of the fruit. It is same for mead. You can let your sit in a bottle for 15 years if you want or enjoy perfectly fine mead after just one year. Hell you can have mead after just 1 week if you want (quick mead is what our ancestors drank for millennia).