New sub here, I have been binge watching your videos for about two weeks now. I made my first 3 batches of mead last night with your recipes. Holiday fruitcake, wild blueberry, and an older "beginner" traditional. All three are really acive not even 24h later. The brews you two make like this make me see everything in the grocery store in a different way. Thank you both for this new obsession. ❤
I had some folks looking at me like I was crazy...er than usual tonight. We dragged a broken bit of machinery out of the way, and someone asked, ''''What are we gonna do with it?'' To which I replied, ''We're gonna let it sit.'' And then laughed so hard I had tears. Took a long time to explain myself . 🤣 This is your fault. 🤣😂🤣
I made a 1 gallon strawberry mead and 1 gallon mango mead. Both had like 3-4 inch lees cake and much less than 1 gallon and on top of that they tasted "meh". Decided to rack and mix the two meads...After back sweetening with honey, the results were phenomenal!
I dabble in Chinese medicine and goji is valued for its blood building properties. I’ve been imagining making some wine with gojis I have on hand and I think this video is my catalyst to finally give it a go! One of the fruit blends for I use for a tonic is goji, white mulberry, longan, and jujube. Thanks for the video!
Never thought of using goji Ill give it a try. When adding acids I like to pour a sample for each acid and add a tiny bit of each and see what taste best then use that one.
i saw this but didnt look at the time it was posted😭 i thought it was another old video.. but its so awesome to see a new vid!!! im pretty new to the channel, and i love every vid ive seen, you guys have inspired me to start making mead, thank you!
I love goji berries! I soak them with my chia seeds and put them into my smoothies. They add an amazing flavour to every fruit I blend with. I really really really love blending them with pineapple, and I wonder if the acidity of the pineapple might act similar to the acidity you added to the brew. I always love your channel and I literally wait for you two to put out new videos. Highlight of my week! The new microphone is pleasant. I imagine your channel is going to get views exponentially soon. You’re going to hit 1 million… and I’m gonna be here rooting you guys on when you do! 🎉
It is strange how sometimes the most simple of brews turn out to have the most complexity. It doesn't happen often enough, but when it does, the amazingness comes out/
Lalvin ec-1118 is a great yeast like it for dryer wines chardonnay etc but for the fruit wines the Lalvin k1-v1116 just seems to me to bring the true flavor of the fruit out enjoy your videos.
Hi All, Have been loving your videos. (Living in Australia so including metric measurements is always appreciated) I was wondering that if instead of adding the second batch of goji berries after the first rack you dry hopped with something like Citra and Galaxy hops to enhance the fruity flavours? There are so many crazy hop varieties out now. I know it's wine not beer but who said that hops were only for beer?
Hops doesn't just add some fruitiness (in fact it's not that much fruitiness compared to actual fruit), it is a bittering agent, and would DRASTICALLY change the flavor profile of this wine.
I just bought the fermenter too, but I am confused to how the one in the video has an airlock. When it is sold there is not airlock. Can someone please explain.
As seen in the original video for it, you use a drill to drill a hole for the air lock and it's rubber grommet (sold separately). Go back in their vid uploads by a couple and they should have the air locks and grommets linked, but you'll need a drill with a big enough bit
Love the idea of using the Goji Berries~! We have bushes that we pick fresh goji every year. So to make this wine with fresh berries, we are thinking of freezing them first, would you agree, or should we dehydrate them like what you use???? I think the earthy flavors you depicted are very goji related, I sometimes can get a peppery flavor from them, love this new way to use them along with the other fruits we grow on our property.
This sounds like a very interesting brew! From your descriptions of the fruitiness, I wonder how you would say it compares to a Sangria. How would it taste with cinnamon sprinkled on top?
I made a Goji Berry mead. I hated it when it was bottled. I can't remember exactly what I added to it to make it taste better. It's been sitting over a year now. Maybe I should pull one out and give it a try. I could use the bottles.
my most recent in bottle brew is a cherry cranberry that was 35g sugar/ 250ml in a 1.89l actually brewed 3 with the lees from the previous cranberry cocktail brew.. I freeze to clear but this stuff didn't need it at all and has a very syrup sweetness. my initial yeast was bread yeast try the cherry cocktail stuff in the 1.89l if you can find it. super cheap $2 canadian each.. wondering what sort of percentage these should be getting. Brandy.. it drinks like a sweet brandy 42:00 I find it too sweet to drink without a soda base. I think we're tasting similar things. mine is stupid cheap I might mix gelatin and make popsicles
Oh man, talking about yeast, I have a Pineapple step feed wine going right now that's exceeding 17%. The intent was to step feed until the yeast hit tolerance and then sweeten with sugar from there, but so far it just doesn't seem to have an end as I'm on my 5th feed and fermentation just started up again. (edit) I forgot to say that this is with normal old Fleischmann's Instant Dry Yeast.
Great video - I love Goji berries. I have a question unrelated to the video though and I need some help. I am not a new mead maker by any stretch, although I'm definitely not a professional. I've run out of my stock standard hydromel which I make with black tea and boiled baker's yeast so I decided to make some more. 10/11% ABV, nothing weird. However, after the primary fermentation, I tasted it and it was very sour. Like a sour beer sour, almost like it lacto fermented? I used a LalBrew BRY-97 West Coast American Ale yeast. I am unsure whether I accidentally oxidised it and made vinegar, or maybe it was somehow lacto fermented even without pitching any kind of lacto. I definitely didn't swish it around after pitching my yeast... as I'm typing this it might've had something to do with my sanitisation? I just have a spray bottle full of diluted star san I use, no TRBOS or anything. Any help or insight from the pros would be much appreciated, thank you in advance Brian and Derica!
Sounds like some type of infection. Could be some piece of kit had it on it and the infection simply grew. Now, it could be acetobactor which makes vinegar or it could be brettanomyces which is used to make sour beers and ciders. Either way, it's not actually harmful and many people love sours. One thing though... thoroughly sanitize anything that came in contact with that batch to help prevent future infections.
I'm not sure if you guys already have a video on it, but the goji berries made my mind go to lychee fruit. Perhaps you guys could make a lychee wine or mead? I haven't made anything like that but it might be interesting
Sounds like if its not a sweet fruity sort of flavour and you're looking for food pairings, would you think an aperitif or digestif, maybe with some cheeses? It sounds wonderful and looking forward to see how it goes after a year. As always, wonderful video
🥂I have ??? On making amber blue agave syrup honey mead what method would be the best way? Of going with yeast 71B or ec1118 to help with aroma and taste . Thanks you
I have heard that invert sugar speeds up fermentation, and produces a better tasting distilled liquor. Is this also true for wines? I would love to see you guys do an experiment about this!
I have heard lots of opinions on invert sugar but the facts don't support them. It's good for some beer styles for flavor, but yeast literally evolved to concert sugar to alcohol and co2. No help from us is needed 😉
Good morning, another great video after watching your video I took a look around through all my stuff and found a 6 gallon fermenter and in my fermenter I am putting 1 pound of Goji berries for every gallon of water so there’s 5 gallons of water 5 pounds of Goji berries I’m also going with 5 pounds of sugar, the zest of five oranges, and if it turns out the way, I think it well which will be extremely on the strong side. I will increase the alcohol content with Everclear. It is an experiment I will keep you abreast on how it goes and if it turns out. If you have any other further instructions to help me out or to add to it, I would greatly appreciate it. Have a great day.
@@CitySteadingBrews it’s OK about the alcohol level. I plan on adding six bottles of Everclear to the mix so I’m hoping that it’s extremely strong. I thought about taking the Everclear and another fermenter and adding in three or 4 pounds of Goji berries to it and let it sit while the otheris in the process. Do you have an opinion?
While you were talking, before pouring the berries and water into the fermenter, a single berry slowly drifted down to the huge pile of berries at the bottom, and I was reminded of a Peter Capaldi Doctor Who episode. Do you know... Was the bird in the story an African or European swallow?
Excellent as always you two .... do you think the health benefits attributed to Goji carried through and survived the fermentation process? I'm thinking, after watching this to try making a batch of Goji Gin kind of like Sloe Gin. Thanks for the great video.
I broke my first Hydrometer. I feel like that is a rite of passage for any brewer. Accidentally smashed it into a 1 gallon fermenter in my sanatizer bucker.
Hey guys, have you ever considered fermenting hot sauces? Its a thing ive recently discovered and been interested in myself outside of brewing mead, cider, beer and wine
Random question, what do you guys do with batches that don't make the cut? Do you keep them still to see if time / age helps or do you cut losses and dump it?
EC-1118 must just hate living in the low 60's. I don't like the temperature above 67°, and I can't afford to heat the apartment above 65, so I've made five different wines with the 1118, and none of them would clear without me pasteurizing and then cold crashing. Also everything took twice as long to ferment than my regular bread yeast. IDK... Maybe the cheap stuff just fits me better 😂😅 As always, thanks guys.
Goji berries are one of those things that taste radically different for two groups of people. One finds that they taste how you described the smell, sweet-ish and citrusy, whereas the other group finds that they taste of soil. It's apparently genetic. Sadly I'm in the latter group. Could explain why you found a disconnect between the smell and taste at the first racking though.
What incredible timing, I just planned out a potential brew with Goji berries and Miracle fruit?! I was thinking of starting with a goji must and adding miracle fruit / powder after pasteurization, racking off of it at some point. Has anyone had any experience with miracle fruit and had any recommendations?
Question: You started by putting the berries in boiling water but the second time you added berries you just put it in. Was it because the brew was "safe" because of the abv the second time?
Happy St. Patrick’s Day I never try goje berries The not really common here in Germany. I thought maybe you try a St. Patrick‘s Day mead again. I found green Honey in the Philippines. The wild bees get the nectar from the bamboo. And the honey have a really nice green. Maybe you can get a glass. I can’t send one from Germany. But maybe there are some Filipino or Filipina in USA who can bring you 500ml. It’s enough to color a mead nice green
@@CitySteadingBrews I'll try. The concept should work. Dried mangoes then made powder. What can go wrong. Re-hydrating. Fruit is still there but in a different form. I'll let you know when I do it. Not now.
We didn't calculate it. But we probably spent like $3-5 per package of goji berries. So with the sugar, I would say less than $20 for a gallon, so about $4 a bottle or so?
fun fact, there is no such thing as a "sucking" force. When you drink from a straw, you are creating low pressure in your lungs and the high pressure of the atmosphere pushes down on the liquid which forces it up into the straw and into your mouth.
Yeast nutrients? The algorithm... the algorithm keeps sending me videos of home brewers from the UK, I think. One guy swears by crushing vitamin B1 tablets in his brew for the yeast. The other guy mixed about 1/8 tube of tomatoes paste into his must for nutrients and claimed the finished wine does not have a tomato taste. Have you guys heard of or tried either?
Heard of both, never tried either. We are realizing nutrients are overhyped much of the time. For a basic mead that is higher abv? Sure. A fruity wine in the 12-13% range? As we showed here... not as important.
if you look at the 10:35 mark...you can see you didn't have the lid all the way on...that's why it came out of the lid i would imagine....beneficial error i would say....off topic....i have brew that's been sitting on fruit(strawberries) for 67 days.....how long should fruit stay in initial fermentation?....
I see what you're saying, but it was on. Even if it was off slightly, after recording, we'd have noticed and fixed it. As for fruit, we leave it until first racking most of the time.
New sub here, I have been binge watching your videos for about two weeks now. I made my first 3 batches of mead last night with your recipes. Holiday fruitcake, wild blueberry, and an older "beginner" traditional. All three are really acive not even 24h later. The brews you two make like this make me see everything in the grocery store in a different way. Thank you both for this new obsession. ❤
Happy to help!
Normally goji is combined with Chinese red dates and dried longan. You should try to make a mead/wine with this tri-combo.
I guess instead of the Towel, Derica needs a real splash shield. Maybe a small viking shield would do the trick. 🤣
a mini riot shield so it is see through? 🤣
I had some folks looking at me like I was crazy...er than usual tonight. We dragged a broken bit of machinery out of the way, and someone asked, ''''What are we gonna do with it?'' To which I replied, ''We're gonna let it sit.'' And then laughed so hard I had tears. Took a long time to explain myself . 🤣 This is your fault. 🤣😂🤣
Ha!
I made a 1 gallon strawberry mead and 1 gallon mango mead. Both had like 3-4 inch lees cake and much less than 1 gallon and on top of that they tasted "meh". Decided to rack and mix the two meads...After back sweetening with honey, the results were phenomenal!
I dabble in Chinese medicine and goji is valued for its blood building properties. I’ve been imagining making some wine with gojis I have on hand and I think this video is my catalyst to finally give it a go! One of the fruit blends for I use for a tonic is goji, white mulberry, longan, and jujube. Thanks for the video!
Never thought of using goji Ill give it a try. When adding acids I like to pour a sample for each acid and add a tiny bit of each and see what taste best then use that one.
What a unique idea. Thanks for doing this one!
This video reminded me that I wanted to try making a gogi berry infused rice wine.
i saw this but didnt look at the time it was posted😭 i thought it was another old video.. but its so awesome to see a new vid!!! im pretty new to the channel, and i love every vid ive seen, you guys have inspired me to start making mead, thank you!
Happy to help.
I love goji berries! I soak them with my chia seeds and put them into my smoothies. They add an amazing flavour to every fruit I blend with. I really really really love blending them with pineapple, and I wonder if the acidity of the pineapple might act similar to the acidity you added to the brew. I always love your channel and I literally wait for you two to put out new videos. Highlight of my week! The new microphone is pleasant. I imagine your channel is going to get views exponentially soon. You’re going to hit 1 million… and I’m gonna be here rooting you guys on when you do! 🎉
😀 thanks!
Awesome video. This brew sounds amazing
It is strange how sometimes the most simple of brews turn out to have the most complexity. It doesn't happen often enough, but when it does, the amazingness comes out/
Lalvin ec-1118 is a great yeast like it for dryer wines chardonnay etc but for the fruit wines the Lalvin k1-v1116 just seems to me to bring the true flavor of the fruit out enjoy your videos.
Asian market!!! I made a comment about wanting to make Asian style mead/wine because of my girlfriend. Thanks for doing this one!
Hi All, Have been loving your videos. (Living in Australia so including metric measurements is always appreciated)
I was wondering that if instead of adding the second batch of goji berries after the first rack you dry hopped with something like Citra and Galaxy hops to enhance the fruity flavours?
There are so many crazy hop varieties out now. I know it's wine not beer but who said that hops were only for beer?
Hops doesn't just add some fruitiness (in fact it's not that much fruitiness compared to actual fruit), it is a bittering agent, and would DRASTICALLY change the flavor profile of this wine.
Excited to see the new fermenter! I just got mine to start working with.
I just bought the fermenter too, but I am confused to how the one in the video has an airlock. When it is sold there is not airlock. Can someone please explain.
As seen in the original video for it, you use a drill to drill a hole for the air lock and it's rubber grommet (sold separately). Go back in their vid uploads by a couple and they should have the air locks and grommets linked, but you'll need a drill with a big enough bit
Love the idea of using the Goji Berries~! We have bushes that we pick fresh goji every year. So to make this wine with fresh berries, we are thinking of freezing them first, would you agree, or should we dehydrate them like what you use???? I think the earthy flavors you depicted are very goji related, I sometimes can get a peppery flavor from them, love this new way to use them along with the other fruits we grow on our property.
I have never even seen fresh ones, lol. Couldn't say if they would impart different flavors.
This sounds like a very interesting brew! From your descriptions of the fruitiness, I wonder how you would say it compares to a Sangria. How would it taste with cinnamon sprinkled on top?
Eeh... nothing like sangria. Much more earthy and more like a slightly fruity white.
I always use tea size muslin bags for my added zest or spices because they are so cheap
I made a Goji Berry mead. I hated it when it was bottled. I can't remember exactly what I added to it to make it taste better. It's been sitting over a year now. Maybe I should pull one out and give it a try. I could use the bottles.
my most recent in bottle brew is a cherry cranberry that was 35g sugar/ 250ml in a 1.89l actually brewed 3 with the lees from the previous cranberry cocktail brew.. I freeze to clear but this stuff didn't need it at all and has a very syrup sweetness. my initial yeast was bread yeast
try the cherry cocktail stuff in the 1.89l if you can find it. super cheap $2 canadian each.. wondering what sort of percentage these should be getting.
Brandy.. it drinks like a sweet brandy 42:00 I find it too sweet to drink without a soda base.
I think we're tasting similar things. mine is stupid cheap
I might mix gelatin and make popsicles
Sounds like it didn't ferment. Not enough sugars there to make it stay sweet without failed fermentation. I estimate a 1.050 or so starting gravity.
It's got some sugars but it's got something else happening
Oh man, talking about yeast, I have a Pineapple step feed wine going right now that's exceeding 17%. The intent was to step feed until the yeast hit tolerance and then sweeten with sugar from there, but so far it just doesn't seem to have an end as I'm on my 5th feed and fermentation just started up again. (edit) I forgot to say that this is with normal old Fleischmann's Instant Dry Yeast.
We have heard of it going that high!
Great video - I love Goji berries.
I have a question unrelated to the video though and I need some help. I am not a new mead maker by any stretch, although I'm definitely not a professional. I've run out of my stock standard hydromel which I make with black tea and boiled baker's yeast so I decided to make some more. 10/11% ABV, nothing weird. However, after the primary fermentation, I tasted it and it was very sour. Like a sour beer sour, almost like it lacto fermented? I used a LalBrew BRY-97 West Coast American Ale yeast. I am unsure whether I accidentally oxidised it and made vinegar, or maybe it was somehow lacto fermented even without pitching any kind of lacto. I definitely didn't swish it around after pitching my yeast... as I'm typing this it might've had something to do with my sanitisation? I just have a spray bottle full of diluted star san I use, no TRBOS or anything.
Any help or insight from the pros would be much appreciated, thank you in advance Brian and Derica!
Sounds like some type of infection. Could be some piece of kit had it on it and the infection simply grew. Now, it could be acetobactor which makes vinegar or it could be brettanomyces which is used to make sour beers and ciders. Either way, it's not actually harmful and many people love sours. One thing though... thoroughly sanitize anything that came in contact with that batch to help prevent future infections.
That rumble jar looks sweet, just ordered one lol
Yea I can see how useful they can be, plethora of uses for sure!
Great video!!
If my must is too warm before I add my yeast, I add ice cubes instead of water to bring it up to a gallon. So far that works well for me.
I bought some quart jar fermenter lids, might start experimenting with them
thanks for always inspiring fun trials
I've done that when brewing beer. It works well.
I'm not sure if you guys already have a video on it, but the goji berries made my mind go to lychee fruit. Perhaps you guys could make a lychee wine or mead? I haven't made anything like that but it might be interesting
We have a lychee mead coming soon.
Sounds like if its not a sweet fruity sort of flavour and you're looking for food pairings, would you think an aperitif or digestif, maybe with some cheeses? It sounds wonderful and looking forward to see how it goes after a year.
As always, wonderful video
Thank you.
Sounds like an interestingly tasty wine
🥂I have ??? On making amber blue agave syrup honey mead what method would be the best way? Of going with yeast 71B or ec1118 to help with aroma and taste . Thanks you
We have made agave wine but not mead. We don't have a recipe for this, sorry.
I have heard that invert sugar speeds up fermentation, and produces a better tasting distilled liquor. Is this also true for wines? I would love to see you guys do an experiment about this!
I have heard lots of opinions on invert sugar but the facts don't support them. It's good for some beer styles for flavor, but yeast literally evolved to concert sugar to alcohol and co2. No help from us is needed 😉
@@CitySteadingBrews thanks for the info!
Great video! I've watched it all already, just trust me.
Erm... nope. 👍
@@CitySteadingBrews have actually watched it now and considering a wine instead of my usual mead 👌
Good morning, another great video after watching your video I took a look around through all my stuff and found a 6 gallon fermenter and in my fermenter I am putting 1 pound of Goji berries for every gallon of water so there’s 5 gallons of water 5 pounds of Goji berries I’m also going with 5 pounds of sugar, the zest of five oranges, and if it turns out the way, I think it well which will be extremely on the strong side. I will increase the alcohol content with Everclear. It is an experiment I will keep you abreast on how it goes and if it turns out. If you have any other further instructions to help me out or to add to it, I would greatly appreciate it. Have a great day.
It's going to be lower alcohol than ours as we added more sugar. You might have a 1.050 OG which makes like 7-8%.
@@CitySteadingBrews it’s OK about the alcohol level. I plan on adding six bottles of Everclear to the mix so I’m hoping that it’s extremely strong. I thought about taking the Everclear and another fermenter and adding in three or 4 pounds of Goji berries to it and let it sit while the otheris in the process. Do you have an opinion?
Is monk fruit sugar a suitable substitute for standard granulated white sugar?
Nope, it doesn't ferment.
While you were talking, before pouring the berries and water into the fermenter, a single berry slowly drifted down to the huge pile of berries at the bottom, and I was reminded of a Peter Capaldi Doctor Who episode. Do you know...
Was the bird in the story an African or European swallow?
Excellent as always you two .... do you think the health benefits attributed to Goji carried through and survived the fermentation process? I'm thinking, after watching this to try making a batch of Goji Gin kind of like Sloe Gin. Thanks for the great video.
I couldn't say. Best I have found on such things is "some".
Not related to this brew, but I find it funny. Whichever video of yours I watch anytime u all mention trbos I get an ad lol
Yeah same thing happens to me.
Same thing with "tasting history" every time he goes into "time for history" I get an ad.
YT puts ads in where they "see" a natural break in the video.
No drum sound after 1:06 😮😮
I broke my first Hydrometer. I feel like that is a rite of passage for any brewer. Accidentally smashed it into a 1 gallon fermenter in my sanatizer bucker.
Lol, sadly it is!
Was that a magicians reference about the fay
Tbh, not even sure myself!
Have you ever degassed using a vacuum chamber? Would it work?
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Hey guys, have you ever considered fermenting hot sauces? Its a thing ive recently discovered and been interested in myself outside of brewing mead, cider, beer and wine
We did! Not sure where the video is.
Random question, what do you guys do with batches that don't make the cut? Do you keep them still to see if time / age helps or do you cut losses and dump it?
We have been showing everything we brew for a few years now, good or bad.
We have dumped a couple... not many though.
EC-1118 must just hate living in the low 60's.
I don't like the temperature above 67°, and I can't afford to heat the apartment above 65, so I've made five different wines with the 1118, and none of them would clear without me pasteurizing and then cold crashing.
Also everything took twice as long to ferment than my regular bread yeast.
IDK... Maybe the cheap stuff just fits me better 😂😅
As always, thanks guys.
It seems to like 55-65 best, though...
@@CitySteadingBrews this is still the batch that I bought last summer during the heat wave. So that could probably be the reason too...
To goji or not to goji? That is the question! Whether tis nobler to... Well I tried❗️
Goji berries are one of those things that taste radically different for two groups of people. One finds that they taste how you described the smell, sweet-ish and citrusy, whereas the other group finds that they taste of soil. It's apparently genetic. Sadly I'm in the latter group. Could explain why you found a disconnect between the smell and taste at the first racking though.
As for the disconnect.... it sometimes happens with younger brews.
What incredible timing, I just planned out a potential brew with Goji berries and Miracle fruit?! I was thinking of starting with a goji must and adding miracle fruit / powder after pasteurization, racking off of it at some point. Has anyone had any experience with miracle fruit and had any recommendations?
I couldn't say. Never used it.
00:01:05
Were they buried or berried?
Edited because I timestamped wrong.
Also, I'd just like to say that the berries swirling around in the beginning was memorizing.
Lol
Question: You started by putting the berries in boiling water but the second time you added berries you just put it in. Was it because the brew was "safe" because of the abv the second time?
Pretty much yeah, but they are shelf stable dried berries anyway. Highly unlikely to harbor any infections.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
I never try goje berries
The not really common here in Germany.
I thought maybe you try a St. Patrick‘s Day mead again. I found green Honey in the Philippines. The wild bees get the nectar from the bamboo. And the honey have a really nice green.
Maybe you can get a glass. I can’t send one from Germany. But maybe there are some Filipino or Filipina in USA who can bring you 500ml. It’s enough to color a mead nice green
We didn't make a St Patricks mead this year.
Maybe next
I wonder if miracle berry wine would continue to make sour things taste sweet...? 😀
Dunno! May have to try that.
Mango powder can be used to make mango wine?
I have no idea. Never tried. I don't think it would be as good as real mango.
@@CitySteadingBrews I'll try. The concept should work. Dried mangoes then made powder. What can go wrong. Re-hydrating. Fruit is still there but in a different form. I'll let you know when I do it. Not now.
"That's my story and I'm sticking to it" 😂
Where do you get your 2 gallon glass wide mouth bubbler?
We do not have a 2 gallon glass fermenter.
"No Fae were hurt in the making of this video." 😉
😅 so much fun.
MY PEOPLE
I feel seen!!
The silica paks were "berried"
Lol
“It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…” - Winston Churchill
Thanks, couldn't remember it.
The price per bottle (750 ml)?
We didn't calculate it. But we probably spent like $3-5 per package of goji berries. So with the sugar, I would say less than $20 for a gallon, so about $4 a bottle or so?
@@CitySteadingBrews Not bad.
The berries on Amazon are MUCH more expensive. We might have spent less too, I don't really recall.
@@CitySteadingBrews Bulk store?
A score below 5 is awesome cooking wine.
Ehh.... if I won't drink it I normally won't cook with it either.
hahaha the poor of water into the yeast is such a Brian move!
Don't forget the packets!
They were berried in there
Show you its features? You've been watching the Slingshot Channel, haven't you?
Of course!
fun fact, there is no such thing as a "sucking" force. When you drink from a straw, you are creating low pressure in your lungs and the high pressure of the atmosphere pushes down on the liquid which forces it up into the straw and into your mouth.
Goji Berries usually have asour flavor
I suppose it depends... these had a touch of sweetness.
Lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeast nutrients? The algorithm... the algorithm keeps sending me videos of home brewers from the UK, I think. One guy swears by crushing vitamin B1 tablets in his brew for the yeast. The other guy mixed about 1/8 tube of tomatoes paste into his must for nutrients and claimed the finished wine does not have a tomato taste. Have you guys heard of or tried either?
Heard of both, never tried either. We are realizing nutrients are overhyped much of the time. For a basic mead that is higher abv? Sure. A fruity wine in the 12-13% range? As we showed here... not as important.
Goji berry tea wine? Perhaps some other teas fermented.....the mind reels with strange ideas.....
Goji berries are unpalatable. But they look and smell delicious.
Ehh, I tried some. Not bad really.
if you look at the 10:35 mark...you can see you didn't have the lid all the way on...that's why it came out of the lid i would imagine....beneficial error i would say....off topic....i have brew that's been sitting on fruit(strawberries) for 67 days.....how long should fruit stay in initial fermentation?....
I see what you're saying, but it was on. Even if it was off slightly, after recording, we'd have noticed and fixed it. As for fruit, we leave it until first racking most of the time.
Just call the scyfen mega maid
We did that with the big syringe 😎
Dates wine? Dates are so sweet. Almost 666 gr sugar/kg. Weird number.
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@@CitySteadingBrews Excellent. Thank you!
A cool experiment - turn a long form video into a less than 10 minute video. Then try a 5 minute video.
We tried. Sooo much good info gets left out.
I'm growing goji berries in my front yard. Do I need to remove the seeds like I do for eating them?
I don't think we removed seeds at all.
@@CitySteadingBrews wondering if I should try using whole berries or if I should dehydrate them first this year.