Looking forward to getting a cold in the winter now 👍👍👍👍 love your channel your a truly awesome man . I'm a veteran and suffer with PTSD and your channel keeps me chilled so thank you .
@@HappyHomestead hi o really hope you and your beautiful family are ok ? Please don't listen to negative feedback from rude people . Your channel brings so much joy to thousands of people . Love and blessings to you and your family from Ritchie and Raven xx
@@HappyHomestead hey brother I really hope you and your family are ok ? Your video's are fantastic and I connect with you because you like me are a veteran . Please let me and my wife Raven know you are all well ? Forget the haters and their negative feedback . You sir are a beautiful soul and your channel brings so much happiness . Love and blessings from Ritchie and Raven in Wales 🙂
@@ritchieveteran1495 Many thanks - it's been a dire month for the family - long story, one that will be made public - very public once our legal team have taken action against the relevant parties. . . We have won the biggest battle, now time to tidy up :) Will be back to filming tomorrw :) Thanks for your kind words and message, people like us are never alone!
@@HappyHomestead oh brother I'm so sorry you and your beautiful family have been through such awful times . We will always feel part of your lives thanks to your lovely channel . Be safe my fellow veteran and much love to you and your beautiful family brother
Blimey this sounds good. A panacea for all winter sniffs and coughs. I'll be making this soon, ready for the colder months. I have a mead on the go now. You have to love mead for its simplicity and flavour.
What's the role of temperature here? I'm in a hot country with AC that turns on and off. Beer is difficult - I thought mead might be a little better to try.
Hey james!!! Got a mead question im doin a gln. Batch banana and honey. Took a reading it was 1.158 4lb.honey 5lb. Banana boiled and strained.but within an hour or so it looks like it coagulated almost half the demijon of gel what it looks like.
Bananas are pretty bad at thickening up like that - expect a fair amount of sediment to be thrown. . . replace with a honey solution and it'll be worth it
*ingredients needed* ginger, lemon, 3 lb of honey.... *continues to talk about 2 lb for a dry mead and 4 lb for a really sweet mead.... says he wants a medium sweet mead and is gonna use 1.5 lbs..... hope u like extremely dry meads Came here to find a good recipe for a lemon ginger mead but found a lot wrong with how you do stuff...
I remember having some really good mead once and my imagination was like I was eight years old again, I was having dreams but I was still awake. I think I've got to use raw honey and wild yeast to make that kind of mead, and age it a long time, maybe in barrels.
Speaking of meads, have you made a braggot? I recently got a bag of dry malt extract and added some to a batch of apple wine. (It's still slowly bubbling away, a month now after I started it.) With the DME that remains, I plan on starting a braggot (about 2 to 1 honey to malt extract).
Is there any reason I shouldn't add the lemon to the ginger tea while its steeping? I tend to do this when making a ginger wine and I like how that comes out. Thanks in advance. I've learned so much from your videos.
What a great flavor for mead. Have you ever used herbs with your fruit in any meads? I’ve seen some flavors like blueberry basil in stuff like Kombucha
I absolutely agree with you about fermenting cheap honey vs expensive honey. Honey is 80-90% pure sugar anyway. If I have a mead that requires back-sweetening, *then* I'll use a better quality honey for flavour. I made a juniper mead (your recipe, thank you very much!) that I back-sweetened with about 150g of pine/fir-tree honey. Much cheaper than using 2kg of it and more or less the same effect.
Couple of questions about this recipe: Just wondering if you need to worry about the lemon pips getting into the mix when you're squeezing the lemon? I hear they can spoil the taste. I've just sieved mine so I hope that wasn't crucial. :P Secondly, I sieved out the ginger tea into a sterilised pan and then mixed the honey into the ginger tea, before I added it into the demijohn, so that I could pour it into the jars of honey so that I could get everything out of them. Extra delicious honey. :) Would this method have any adverse effects? Or would the result end up the same? Thanks!
I’ve never made mead before and I’ve been looking for the right recipe for my first try. You, sir, have 100% sold me on this!
Looking forward to getting a cold in the winter now 👍👍👍👍 love your channel your a truly awesome man . I'm a veteran and suffer with PTSD and your channel keeps me chilled so thank you .
Thank you :) Glad I can help a bit. I've served 12 years in the Army, and am still employed within the MOD - my message box is always open!
@@HappyHomestead hi o really hope you and your beautiful family are ok ? Please don't listen to negative feedback from rude people . Your channel brings so much joy to thousands of people .
Love and blessings to you and your family from Ritchie and Raven xx
@@HappyHomestead hey brother I really hope you and your family are ok ? Your video's are fantastic and I connect with you because you like me are a veteran . Please let me and my wife Raven know you are all well ? Forget the haters and their negative feedback . You sir are a beautiful soul and your channel brings so much happiness .
Love and blessings from Ritchie and Raven in Wales 🙂
@@ritchieveteran1495 Many thanks - it's been a dire month for the family - long story, one that will be made public - very public once our legal team have taken action against the relevant parties. . . We have won the biggest battle, now time to tidy up :)
Will be back to filming tomorrw :)
Thanks for your kind words and message, people like us are never alone!
@@HappyHomestead oh brother I'm so sorry you and your beautiful family have been through such awful times . We will always feel part of your lives thanks to your lovely channel . Be safe my fellow veteran and much love to you and your beautiful family brother
Have made something similar. Can confirm it's tastiness! Good to have on hand in the colder months.
Blimey this sounds good. A panacea for all winter sniffs and coughs. I'll be making this soon, ready for the colder months. I have a mead on the go now. You have to love mead for its simplicity and flavour.
Oh yes :) This is my go to heal all :)
Cant wait for the taste test video. I know its gonna be sublime :)
Never made mead, it's about time I had a go and this recipe looks like the one to get me started. Thanks for sharing.
What’s a good general of thumb rule for a nice dry and high %
4:30 before work 🤫 🥰 OK I'll try that.
Where do you store all your wines? Sounds good, I’m working on a Rhubarb and cherry wine now. Love your videos.
Cheers 🥂
Mostly in the shipping container or the living room :) Where ever they seem to end up!
What's the role of temperature here? I'm in a hot country with AC that turns on and off. Beer is difficult - I thought mead might be a little better to try.
Hey james!!! Got a mead question im doin a gln. Batch banana and honey. Took a reading it was 1.158 4lb.honey 5lb. Banana boiled and strained.but within an hour or so it looks like it coagulated almost half the demijon of gel what it looks like.
Bananas are pretty bad at thickening up like that - expect a fair amount of sediment to be thrown. . . replace with a honey solution and it'll be worth it
@@HappyHomestead oh ok so in secondary add a thinned honey to it to regain level right?
I guess Ron was busy today 😜
He's always so busy, and darting from project to project. Was hoping he would help, but he was admiring some cows.
@@HappyHomestead 😂
I love how he’s filming in a cargo container while it’s raining. It’s so whimsical!
Made a mead from four jars of the cheapest Aldi runny honey, wasn’t expecting it to be fantastic but it turned out wonderful. 👍
Wonderful!
He is like a skyrim character. its awesome.
*ingredients needed* ginger, lemon, 3 lb of honey.... *continues to talk about 2 lb for a dry mead and 4 lb for a really sweet mead.... says he wants a medium sweet mead and is gonna use 1.5 lbs..... hope u like extremely dry meads
Came here to find a good recipe for a lemon ginger mead but found a lot wrong with how you do stuff...
Ginger mead, makes my arthritis in my feet 🦶 feel better!,
Awesome as always. 👌🥃
I remember having some really good mead once and my imagination was like I was eight years old again, I was having dreams but I was still awake. I think I've got to use raw honey and wild yeast to make that kind of mead, and age it a long time, maybe in barrels.
Speaking of meads, have you made a braggot? I recently got a bag of dry malt extract and added some to a batch of apple wine. (It's still slowly bubbling away, a month now after I started it.) With the DME that remains, I plan on starting a braggot (about 2 to 1 honey to malt extract).
I agree with using the more affordable honey. I've made fantastic mead with big store honey.
Is there any reason I shouldn't add the lemon to the ginger tea while its steeping?
I tend to do this when making a ginger wine and I like how that comes out.
Thanks in advance. I've learned so much from your videos.
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What a great flavor for mead. Have you ever used herbs with your fruit in any meads? I’ve seen some flavors like blueberry basil in stuff like Kombucha
I use herbs in my meads
Sounds fantastic and I will be mixing this up soon!
Lovely..Defo gonna give this one a go
I absolutely agree with you about fermenting cheap honey vs expensive honey. Honey is 80-90% pure sugar anyway. If I have a mead that requires back-sweetening, *then* I'll use a better quality honey for flavour. I made a juniper mead (your recipe, thank you very much!) that I back-sweetened with about 150g of pine/fir-tree honey. Much cheaper than using 2kg of it and more or less the same effect.
Couple of questions about this recipe: Just wondering if you need to worry about the lemon pips getting into the mix when you're squeezing the lemon? I hear they can spoil the taste. I've just sieved mine so I hope that wasn't crucial. :P
Secondly, I sieved out the ginger tea into a sterilised pan and then mixed the honey into the ginger tea, before I added it into the demijohn, so that I could pour it into the jars of honey so that I could get everything out of them. Extra delicious honey. :)
Would this method have any adverse effects? Or would the result end up the same? Thanks!