Today is a Good Day to Bottle! - Klingon Blood Wine
Today is a Good Day to Bottle! - Klingon Blood Wine. It's been a long road. We used a lot of ingredients. It fermented with honor. Any Klingon would have to respect the bold flavors and aromas of this Blood Wine. Any warrior worth his salt would find it pleasing to know the effort put into the making of our Klingon Blood Wine.
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So we learned how to make rice wine, we even added more rice to make more rice wine. Then, it fermented for a while. Now we have a quandry, how to rack this rice wine! While not necessarily the most modern or best way, we did use the methods others used when they made it. Now, it sits to clear.
Follow along in the How to Make Rice Wine saga!
How to Make Rice Wine or Sake at Home: https://youtu.be/AGEvnu0Ea_8
How to Make Rice Wine (or sake) at Home - Part Two!: https://youtu.be/N6LB1jUM-ck
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Today we show you how to make mead, buckwheat blueberry hydromel mead! Mead isn't that complicated to make, it requires a little bit of knowhow and technique though. Making mead at home is a great way to get in touch with ye olden days and make something our ancestors did. Buckwheat Blueberry Hydromel is a fruity, low ABV mead that will also be carbonated. There will be three parts to this meadmaking series. This is Part One: How to Make Buckwheat Blueberry Hydromel Mead. Enjoy!
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1 Tablespoon Thyme
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Capsicumel Mead - How to BackSweeten. So your mead came out too dry? Here's one way to backsweeten it to get it more to your liking. It's not that difficult, but there are some things to consider.
In this video, I found my capsicumel, or jalapeno mead to be a little drier than I wanted. Sure, it's still got plenty of sugars, but the heat was taking over a little. Also, a lot of people have asked for a backsweetening video so we thought we'd show how we do it.
There are ways to prevent having to backsweeten, and we cover that in other videos, such as https://youtu.be/6aLlJUMBEN0
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* Racking and initial taste of our Jalapeno Capsicumel Mead https://youtu.be/mBPZgdLXRGU
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Craisin Mead, Cranberry Mead - How Bad Can it Be? Well... I won't give it away, but... yeah. What's the worst that can happen if you make mead with those little raisin things they make from cranberries, you know, craisins? How bad can it be, right? A little honey, some dehydrated fruit pellets.... you know, meadmaking. This is the finale in the Craisin Meadmaking series.
If you missed the other two videos:
Making Craisin Mead: https://youtu.be/iGVBp_xM9yc
Racking Craisin Mead: https://youtu.be/mg6FJbT1yNg
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Avocado Mead - Additions, Flavor Adjustments, Back Sweetening and Pasteurizing Test! Yes, this is a long video. Yes, there's a lot to cover, and yes, I could have made 2 parts. But no, we didn't and no, I'm not sorry! (Use the history function in YT and you can watch it as you find time) There's so much to cover! We make adjustments to this brew, we test gravity and explain why, we do flavor adjustments, then, we backsweeten. Not only do we backsweeten, we pasteurize, but not ONLY do we pasteurize it, we test the open bottle vs closed bottle fermentation technique! So stick around, there's a lot of information packed into these 53 minutes!
Additions:
2 small Whole Clove
2 cracked Cardamom pods
20 Allspice Berries
Back sweeten:
Wildflower? Honey to sweetness of your preference (thanks Derek Skinner!)
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How to Make Fig Wine - Using Dried Figs. Figs have such interesting flavors, and lots of cultures have used them for millenia. Also, the idea of a wine made with fig and honey just sounds pretty amazing. So, we set out to concoct a recipe to make a fig wine!
Ingredients:
2 pounds Dried Figs
1/2 pound Raisins
Zest of one Lemon
Juice of one Lemon
1 pound (454 grams) Wildflower Honey (thanks Derek Skinner!)
Steeped Black Tea
Lalvin 71B yeast
Water to appropriate Head Space
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How to Make a Raisin Wine and are raisins really yeast nutrient? Well, almost any fruit can be nutrient if you use enough. So many people have argued, cursed, yelled, thrown tantrums and called us liars over nutrients and raisins. Well, the truth is we don't really use raisins as nutrients. They do have SOME, but probably not enough nutrients to be truly a nutrient for yeast. Raisin Wine however, uses soooo many raisins that it's not only a nutrient, it's the only source of sugar and fermentables in the wine, well, there's half an orange too for brightness.
For years, winemakers, mead makers and home brewers believed raisins were nutrients for yeast. Well, they are, but not as much as people believed. An interesting fact though is if you're making wine, you already have fruit in there to be nutrient and if you're making mead, unless you are making a pure traditional mead, you have other things in there for nutrient already. We don't believe in adding extra additives to our brews, so we try to avoid lab made nutrients when we can.
Yes, we did a test of nutrients vs yeast, but that was really only to prove that nutrients aren't 100% necessary. So what will happen if you use raisins instead of nutrients in your wine? Well, you might have a bit more lag time (that's the time it takes the colony to build up before they start producing alcohol), you might have a slower fermentation (not necessarily a bad thing, as fermentation can add flavor, think sourdough in bread, the longer it ferments the more unique the flavors 'can' be). You CAN get off flavors, and sometimes they aren't all that great, but the good news is those off flavors can age out.
If you add nutrients, you might get a slightly faster fermentation and might cut a few months off the aging time. You also might get a metallic or chemical flavor in your brew. I can taste the difference and thousands of people have told me they can too.
Anyway, back to raisin wine. Raisin wine used to be vastly popular because raisins were cheaper than sugar. Today, it's the other way around, but raisins still give a lot more flavor to the wine than plain sugar does.
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How to backsweeten mead with erithrytol. Today we're adding erithrytol to our buckwheat blueberry hydromel and finishing it up, bottling it and prepping it for natural carbonation. We're using erithrytol due to it being a non-fermentable sweetener so we get a sweeter taste, without worry of refermentation.
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Klingon Blood Wine One Year Tasting. Worf prefers it young, but how is it after a year in the bottle? This was an interesting brew, everything in this Klingon Blood Wine but the kitchen sink. No, there was no honey, but... well, you'll see if you watch the video of us tasting Bloodwine after a year of aging.
How to make REAL Klingon Bloodwine! (not some silly cocktail): https://youtu.be/gNLcJCOkBvM
Klingon Blood Wine Rough Rack - Getting the Bloodwine off the Fruit!: https://youtu.be/2XSmtInGbd4
Klingon Blood Wine Part 3 - Is it ready to rack?: https://youtu.be/Bq04b5NZlxE
Today Is a Good Day To Rack - Klingon Blood Wine: https://youtu.be/GE6ZivJQ134
Today is a Good Day to Bottle! - Klingon Blood Wine: https://youtu.be/fz3aMm43ByQ
What Does Klingon Blood Wine Taste Like? (tasting our Klingon Blood Wine): https://youtu.be/nEhQvd9D4vE
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