“Another Mouthful of Mead” is the title of my folk album.

@thepiratepenguin4465

2 жыл бұрын

Nordic hits 111AD

You and man made mead are the only mead channels I watch regularly. Two very different brewers teaching me how to brew better

I just bottled my first coffee mead! Followed your recipe and wow, what flavours, what colour! This thing is INTENSE. Ended at 1.020 (stayed like that for the last month). Very different from my other meads, but a real treat. If you like coffee don't hesitate to make this. Thanks guys!

Amazing video as always guys. I always learn tons while being entertained to heck and back. 👏😏

Made this today and OG was spot on 1.122! Excited to follow along with this one. Thanks guys!

thanks for all you do

We've started in Year Two of our mead making adventure. Coffeemel is on the list - maybe in a week (just did 5gal of Pomegranate M2E). Thanks for the tips.

Love what you two do. I just finished bottling habanero capsicumel (which seems to have been a resounding success) and, as a coffee lover like Brian, this is my next project. I'm so looking forward to the results!

Thanks! Very helpful.

7:16 my first mead was my own experiment and it was awesome, 2 oranges and a whole container of food city cinnamon sticks, racked after a month and aged for another 5 months to perfection

Oh, I will be making this! Probably, this weekend.

New to the channel-! Love the energy and the vibes...and don't waste mouthfuls.

NEXT. PROJECT. DECIDED!!! Thank you for doing this!

@georgecolby7488

4 жыл бұрын

I started my coffee-mel 2 weeks ago, bubbling along! I used the same beans, cold brewed, and 3 pounds of clover honey. The other differences: I used champagne yeast (to quote Brian: "because that is what I had!") And I added 1oz of raisins. Debating putting just a little almond extract in the finished brew. Testing will commence!

Thanx for the link on Honey! Got a gallon in the Cart. As soon as my Fast Mead is finished (hopefully by 04FEB...) I will delve further into this recipe and give it a try! Being a former Battleship Sailor..... well, Coffee is my Friend. Thank you for these videos! Looking forward to the Rack & Taste in 6 weeks.

I love this concept

Been seeing coffee in a lot of mead videos thanks for your video.

I literally just started learning about mead within the past two weeks, and have thoroughly enjoyed learning from your videos. Very engaging, thought out, and high quality videos. Much appreciated.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

Why thank you!

Can't wait to try this out

Man made mead has good information as well as cs brews. Rock on thanks to both channels.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for repeating yourself over and over and over, the physical and thought proces you have while making your mead. I'm just getting into it and I'm binging your videos. Every explanation helps reinforce the knowledge I'm gaining.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! We are here to teach.

Just found you guys recently and this has got me wanting to try making a mead. It sounds like at worst a fun little science experiment, at best I could have something to drink in the evening after work.

Started this today! Used 100g of locally roasted coffee beans roasted right here in Nottingham UK, smells amazing and tastes great! Can't wait to sample the finished product! Hydrometer reading was 1.110, so could be nice and strong!

Love your videos. Interesting enough earlier this year in May I made a coffee mead. It took nearly a week and a half before my yeasties started their job. I was thinking it was the oils in the coffee that retarded the yeast slightly. It turned out AMAZING though, very much reminded me more of an fall harvest cider than actual coffee

just started this the other day using your recipe and used the Fiji water (not a fan of plastic) but mostly because I do not trust our tap down here in SoFlo, 4 days in and it's already very VERY active. thanks for the recipe can't wait to try it!

I made one of these over a year ago (11/2018). The only things I did different was, I used Lalvin D47 and I added a split vanilla bean in secondary. Tastes great as cold brew and I even like to add steamed milk for a mead-latte. I can't wait to hear if the 71B adds any complexity.

I made this one, only change was that I used store bought cold brew. It’s called Stök brand extra dark. So far it’s five months old and I’ve stayed out of it. I’m going to drink a bottle here in a month and I’m very excited. I did have about a half bottle that I drank when I bottled it and it was very intense. Very coffee.

Made 1 US gallon of this and bottled it about 2 weeks ago in 12oz bottles, I'm down to 2 left because everyone loved it! Gotta do a double batch now!

this will def be my next creation!

omg, my buddy made some coffee mead a few months ago and it was SO GOOD

I have a traveler coworker from the Philippines who brought me some coffee from her province. I just made some cold brew with it and will try making this with some local honey here, poetic bridging between her two homes in a bottle. Thanks for the ideas!!!

perfectly perfect

Ooo I have just the coffee in mind for this when we have made our first few batches. It may turn out that I have my batch and my husband makes his own cause he’s stuck on following what a friend told him to do which includes hot water and the manufactured yeast nutrients which watching your videos and other I don’t really want to use. Soo we will see. 😋 thank you for the ideas and tips!

Looking forward to this one. Good thing I have enough fermentation jugs to begin with a few different things. I do love my coffee. I will be replicating this recipe verbatim. I will check out the Man Made Mead channel as well, thanks for the tip Brian and Derica. This will be in the first three I begin with.

i have seen some of your videos thanks to my hubby and now i'm experimenting with any kind of fermentation i can find. the most entertaining part for me are the innovative recipes as much as the catchphrases like 'brian feels the need to rant'. always puts a smile on my face. my latest mead recipe, elderflower freshly plucked out of nature, orangeblossom and orangezeste.

@CitySteadingBrews

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds lovely! Thank you for watching!

Thank you for the video! I was planning on making my second batch soon. I made my first ever batch a year ago and it was a bust :/

I need to try this

Both you and Man Made Mead have come with back to back videos on meads that look so interesting.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

We did a cyser a while back too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nWd81LCPabaun9o.html

I'm having fun with your videos about making Mead guys, I'm going to start with this project now in the first week of August, I bought all the stuff including Big Bucket of Sanitation but mine is "The big black bucket of sanitation"

Not the one I made first, but totally on my mind, too. I was curious how it would work. Now I can just watch to see the mistakes to avoid! And if it's a good idea. :D Teach me, sensei.

took you guys long enough! hahaha. i'm making a batch os mead with spices

I was thinking of doing this style earlier today.

I used Chocolate Macadamia Nut Coffee for a coffee mead. It is a smooth medium coffee and turned out GREAT!

i need to coment, i love you guys and always see your videos for relaxing time, 3 years ago i say lets brew some mead and when was finish my brother and i get soo drunk and happy with the result all was wild and i made too much for both and after i experiment new flavours. after that i search and im here keep watching you for that time

I made a Coffee Mead a long time ago now, but wow was that a drink!!! One bottle was left for about 2 years and that one was even BETTER!!!!!!!!!

I just gotta say ... long live MtG! I started playing when it first came out and I'm hoping that my kids will get into it as well. I noticed your boxes a little while ago and I always check that they are still there in your vids.

@dracosdiabolis1769

4 жыл бұрын

see, now I cant unsee the deck boxes. lol, mtg and mead.... lol, now why i'm a picturing some brews inspired by or named after magic cards.

Just found this video, and I thought I would chime in as a former barista. Cold brew has another advantage that you inadvertently took advantage of: oils, or the lack thereof. Brewing coffee with hot water extracts a lot of the oils from the bean, and you absolutely want that with hot coffee, because it provides a lot of flavor. Cold brew doesn't extract the oils, simply because it isn't hot enough to. I'm sure you could use hot brewed coffee in mead, but you run the chance of the oils going rancid, and then you'll just end up with sweetened stale coffee. Something that might be fun would be to experiment with different roasts. A dark roast is going to give you a lot of your heavy flavors, such as oak, leather, and tobacco. A light roast might give you lighter flavors such as berries or citrus. A dark roast cold brew mead with either some maple or dried cherries might bring out some interesting flavors.

Your channel name must be Make mead with love, really appreciate the way you make things easier.

This is something I would really like to try at sum point.

Hi Brian, and Erka, this is, Ramon M iguel,thank you bery much, for your excellet way of teaching to make wines, and more, you make easy and fun, keep on, we need you,and love you,GOD bless you, with love, peace, good health, success and prosperitr 🙏👍😀❤️

Nice Man Made Mead shout out!

Giving this a try tomorrow. Cold brew doing its thing on the counter today. :)

@markphillips7538

2 жыл бұрын

Just an update: This was one of my best brews I ever made. Absolutely wonderous. It made great gifts and people raved about it. I actually left it in primary for a year before I remembered it sitting in the closet. Amazing.

Fiji water is absolutely delicious! I don't know if I would brew with it because it is so pricey but I love drinking it plain!

I ended up doing a coffee blossom traditional that I added coffee beans into conditioning. After racking off the beans the brew was aged over toasted French oak spirals. SG1.130~1.012FG. Considered adding toasted cacao nibs for a mocha but decided against it. I’ve learned a lot from your videos and I’m looking forward to see what you got in the future!

@davidbasten4623

Жыл бұрын

wondering how adding beans in conditioning turned out instead of cold brew in primary?

You up for some KZread awards with your fellow KZread mead makers. I made my votes. Good luck.

@CitySteadingBrews

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I just learned about it all. Made a post on our Community page about it.

I didn't think this was possible... My life is changed for the better now!!!

Been waiting for this one. It's one of the flavor combos I'm most interested in getting good at. Please please please, when you guys get to the bottling stage, do a couple different post-fermentation flavorings to compare. Since you guys have a lot of experience with mead AND love coffee, I'd love to know what combos work best for you.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer my coffee.... coffee flavored.

I Like your videos and learned a lot from them. If you like tea, I found a recipe online for tea wine from homebrew talks and it turns out fantastic! I would say it’s one of my best ones I made. I have a 6 gallon batch that I back sweetened with honey, can’t wait to try it. I might do this next since I like coffee! If you are interested I can send you the link to the recipe or even my recipe steps.

Best intro ever.

This is the exactly what I need to know how! Thank you for making this video. Question, do you have any suggestion for honey? Let's say palm sugar?

Everyone is only talking about the mead, which is important, but I'm going to take a moment to send some appreciation for your doctor who shirt. Love me some doctor who. That's for the amazing coffee mead video.

I personally do use chemicals when brewing and do things different from you guys but that's never made me feel you were doing it the "wrong way" or anything like that, I really respect your methods and love your channel. I do wonder why you guys don't reuse your Yeast though. I've heard a lot of great things from the no chemicals guys about reusing and basically generating their own Yeast strains just by dumping more honey and water onto their sediment and yeast after racking and starting their next mead that way without extra yeast. Also, if you ever do attempt another nutrient experiment I'd really recommend avoiding fermaid, Wyeast's nutrient has tons of minerals ect and there is some evidence that pure dap can cause ammonia to be formed by the excess nitrogen. I have to say though, I really like your natural style!

Mmmmmm now you got me thinking chocolate coffee mead or wine...you guys are the best.. Thanks for all you do!😄

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

We did a chocolate cherry mead a while back.

@archietyler6759

4 жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews I just watched the 3 videos on the cherry chocolate mead and now I have a new project!😂😂😂 Thank you for the info!

Just started my third batch of this tasty mead, this time a 3ga one as it doesn't last very long!

Are you kidding! Brings a whole new meaning to Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz!

I recently made an oatmeal coffee stout using an oatmeal stout recipe I've used many times over the years. I decided I wanted something more, so I thought about adding coffee. I finally decided to use espresso beans, kakao nibs, and vanilla bean to get the flavor profile I wanted. I put the whole beans, nibs, and vanilla bean in a vacuum sealed bag with vodka, beat it like a redheaded stepchild with a rolling pin, let it extract for a few hours and then dumped all of that into the wort at flame out. I left it all in during fermentation. It turned out really good. On another note: I've never used somebody else's recipe. I've always come up with my own, and I've never made an awful brew.

Sounds pretty good to me.

Imade some a few months back...and I DID make my own coffee mead recipe...I couldn't drink it cuz coffee makes me sick so I made it for my coffee hound mom and sister...i did try some...so aromatic and smooth...was great but couldn't drink more than a little cups worth.

This is definitely on my list of experimental mead recipes. any thought of trying to make a mocha latte flavored mead? :) thanks for sharing. I am getting lots of good fermentation information from your channel.

@borttorbbq2556

4 жыл бұрын

Coco nibs and vanilla bean

@mycrazylifewfawnlisette3582

4 жыл бұрын

@@borttorbbq2556 thanks for that! How much vanilla bean?

Thank you both for being my mentors as I am now living a life of endless bloop bloop bloop of my airlocks. My favorite so far is my elderberry pear cyser. I keep four, six gallon carboys blooping... I have been getting 17% ABV at about ten weeks. Smiling, George.

Just reminded me that I've had a half gallon test batch in primary in my basement for like 4 months, that i totally forgot about... Really hoping it hasn't gone bad, i see a light film on top

@ultimateaccount2186

3 жыл бұрын

How'd it turn out?

Cool video. I’m gonna mimic this. Was wondering if I go and rack this and need to top it off if I have to much headspace what do you guy recommend to use?

@theastronomer5800

3 жыл бұрын

If you rack it and it's still de-gassing with little bubble in the liquid then head space is not a big problem as the CO2 is heavier than oxygen and forms a protective layer above the brew. If your alcohol % is above ~10% then it's not a big problem either. My parents make a lot of wine and sometimes they top it off with a bottle of an older wine that is the same (otherwise you're diluting or changing something in the brew).

Do you really have the Bubbling airlock video..lol I was looking for it the sleep to.. Crazy like a fox.. Love the Idea!! Cold Brew is Brewing, Love ya Both!!

@CitySteadingBrews

4 ай бұрын

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Omg !!! Lol i might have to subscribe now!!! Haha damn, now i have to go get some more honey.... Wait, no i don't i guess i could forgo the orange cherry mead i was going to start soon. My whole house is going to be full of mead and strange brews lol. Right now i have a spiced mead going, an amanita muscaria ambrosia (don't ask) and a blue lotus (nymphaea caerulea) mead going, but i do have honey and some lavlin yeazy lol

Fruit in coffee....guwwhhh. I watched Man Made Mead's videos and a few others as well on coffee meads (I do like your videos a bit more, but he has some interesting info too). The main take aways I found were: cold brew coffee and a portion of a stronger flavor honey. I used 1 gallon of cold brew with 2lb local wildflower honey and 1lb star thistle honey. Somehow I got an OG of 1.14 and as of 1/1 it went to 1.008 and is finishing (second rack). I did use some of the cold brew to hydrate the yeast as well. I did notice mine hasn't really cleared much (rich dark coffee color, but a bit cloudy) though for some reason.

@borttorbbq2556

4 жыл бұрын

Buckwheat honey would be good

I just bought some Death Wish dark roast coffee. This is my next wine.

I'm brewing two one gallons of coffee mead batches right now. When cold brewing coffee might I suggest using a brew bag. :-) Cost $3 and it is reusable. Also no mess and no need for further filtering. I used 2.5 pounds of clover honey per gallon and Lelvin EC-1118. OG was 1.090 and in secondary I'll be adding a vanilla bean. :-)

You could siphon off some foam with your Turkey baster, just to make room. I have the same Turkey baster, btw...I can tell by the color!

I really want to try a coffee mead and have been looking at different yeast. No specific strains yet but I'm currently thinking a merlot-strain might accentuate fruity varieties.

Watching this video again to check your recipe for an upcoming coffeemel I'm trying, Heard your Fiji water comment, never heard of trying that, I have a rose water one going that might be interesting, so wondering if you guys ever got back to trying fiji water?

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

We never did, the Covid19 issue came into play.

I'm one of those that tried to go straight into my own recipes, and by recipes I mean throw the whole thing of honey in the carboy and top with water and GO!! I'm still trying to save those brews

Hello. Thanks for your video, it is really good and plan to use your recipe. I noticed that you didn´t use any raisins or yeast feed, does the coffee will do the job? Thanks again, keep it up!

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

Coffee does the job quite well, yes.

Quick question, I'd love to make a coffee mead and I have Lavazza Espresso which is amazing. Do you recommend a certain amount of it, cold brew, so it doesn't overpower everything else like the honey? And what kind of honey would you recommend? I get wildflower from my father in law's apiary, I buy them from him, and his bees honey tastes very lovely. Thanks again for the amazing content.

I’m about two weeks in on a half gallon of French press coffee with 3.5 cups of sugar with a wine yeast. Would this qualify as a wine, mead, weird amalgamation, etc? Love your videos by the way, you guys got me started about three weeks ago and I’m really enjoying it.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

Wine

Nice

Hi Brian and Derica. Speaking of the mesmerizing bubbling of the airlock, I just got a couple of the S-shaped bubblers to use instead of the two piece bubblers. Sounds great, looks fun, but there is a fine foam forming on top of the holey cap. No foam in the neck of my bottles, none on top of my headspace, just little bubbles coming up the inside of the bottle. Oh, this is the Sweet Red wine - the one I asked about a few days ago because it has “naturally occurring” sulfites from the grapes, and I started it about 16 hours ago, foam visible on top of the bubbler after about 8 hours. StarSan water is in the air lock. Here’s the numbers for my two 1/2 gallon fermentations (testing one with and one without added sugar). Sweet Red Orig spgr - 1.130 1 tsp _Fleischmann’s bread yeast (oops - was thinking gallon measurements not 1/2) 12 oz white sugar Dry Orig spgr: 1.066 1/2 tsp bread yeast Both are bubbling happily, and both have the little pile of foam on top. I suspect this isn’t anything to worry about, but I trust your opinions so I thought I’d run it by you. Thanks for the excellent information on your channels and for being the wonderful people you are 😊

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

What is the question then?

Have you thought of trying any of the Meads from the Skyrim cookbook? Love that you did this one by the way! I've been thinking of doing a coffeemel. Just need to free up some fermenters..... or buy more!

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

We might!

Really looking forward to racking/tasting video of this. I racked my coffee mel 2 weeks ago and I'm looking to bottle soon. I would like to compare notes!

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

Soon!

@georgecolby7488

4 жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews yay!!!

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

We haven’t done a follow up because it wasn’t ready yet. The mead, not the video.

@georgecolby7488

4 жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews I figured! I used a little less honey, so mine was done in 4 weeks.

Great video!! Love.yoir stuff. Been a making some wine.myself with help of your channel 👍 This is probably not the location for a suggestion but. Can you make a a Banna Wine video? Thanks Mike

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

It’s coming.

Just started my coffee mead last night, shes bubbling away!

Glad this channel is still active. It's depressing seeing all the good fermenting videos being 5 years old or so

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Now the smartass in me has to come out... So you’re saying... 1) none of our videos are good and 2) fermenting needs to have regular updating? It’s a 10,000 year old hobby. Just teasing.

I once saw something interesting at the site of the Brooklyn Brew Shop. Belgian bacon dubbel beer. From what I read just a standard belgian dubbel beer with a trimmed and dried cut of bacon added to the fermenter. Maybe you can give it a try sometimes.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

Ehh.... maaaaybe?

I'm making Viking blood right now now, this will be my next project. Brewing has become my new obsession.

This is going to go on my list to make!! I am new to brewing and this looks AMAZING and I love Coffee!!

Just started a gallon of Coffemel……followed your directions but my SG is 1.34……..should I panic or just wait to see what happens. New to this and my Vikings Blood is absolutely amazing. I feel like a mad scientist in my lab.thanks for all the videos!

The bubbling of an airlock is actually fun to watch.. Lol

I just started a coffee mead

Hmmm...I am so glad you made this video! I have been looking for a good recipe to use smoked honey in. Maybe this is the one! Any thoughts/suggestions?

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

You could... to me though, coffee isn't smoky, so...

When i Saw the title of the vídeo, ser tou use cold brew for the coffe , stop the vídeo and set up a cold brew . I've been thinking on doing a coffe ferment a longe time , thanks for the inspiration . But i try everyting on wines , becouse gere honey os a little tô expensive for me to do testing . Jeep up the good work

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

I always have to choose between wine and mead, since, as you said, honey is a lot more expensive!

@lucasbbv

4 жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews Sorry now i see my auto corret in portuguese mess ALL my text ... Hahahahaha

@lucasbbv

4 жыл бұрын

I'll start a coffe wine tomorow then i can try to tell tou How It game out , anyway thanks for the inspiration .

Another mead I can get behind. Love me some coffee in the morning and mead in the evening. Sounds like a perfect combination to me. I am going to make this along with you. I just read a way to get better filtering and less sludge at the bottom of your cold brew. Use a regular coffee filter in a fine mesh strainer and slowly pour it through that. I am going to do that with my cold brew and will let you know how it turned out. I am going to use the same amount of honey as well as the same yeast so it will be real close to the same recipe.

@CitySteadingBrews

4 жыл бұрын

I did that... three times.

@JoeWeymouth

4 жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews ah gotcha. I didn't catch how you filtered it.

@borttorbbq2556

4 жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews seelite

Hi, first of all a big "Thank you" for your channel! Did you try using a cold brew tea in any of your brews? If so, how did it turn out?

@CitySteadingBrews

Жыл бұрын

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