VladPiranha December 24, 2015 Share VladPiranha Member December 24, 2015 (edited) https://youtu.be/olG1etbI54Y The first installment of my mead making videos is online now. Mead is my favorite kind of wine. It's not easy to find in liquor stores, especially if you want it made with a particular fruit or at certain alcohol level, so you're largely left to make it yourself if you want something really fantastic to pass around during the holidays. My 2014 vintage of Raspberry Northman is opening later tonight for Christmas. If you're of Nordic ancestry, as I am (Uppland, Sweden), then making your own mead can be a fun experience simply for historical reasons. Watching the movie The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Benderas, will also get you in the mood. It's what initially got me interested. It's a movie about an exiled Arab scholar who chronicles his journey with a group of twelve viking warriors on a mission across the sea to do battle with an ancient evil. They drink plenty of mead when they're not slaying agents of darkness. Edited December 27, 2015 by VladPiranha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick82 December 24, 2015 Share chick82 Member December 24, 2015 Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiMiT December 24, 2015 Share LiMiT Member December 24, 2015 I really want to try mead, but like you said it's hard to find. There is a winery about 3hours away that makes it and I want to go and check it out. Going to check out your vids and subscribe! S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VladPiranha December 27, 2015 Author Share VladPiranha Member December 27, 2015 I really want to try mead, but like you said it's hard to find. There is a winery about 3hours away that makes it and I want to go and check it out. Going to check out your vids and subscribe! S. The good news is that you can make a bottle from scratch for about $30 once you have the necessary equipment. Gallon batches are very inexpensive to make to learn the craft. For what you can accomplish, the buy-in for mead making is actually really inexpensive in general. Hopefully you give my recipe a shot. I'm still working on it and documenting as I move along. Speaking of which, editing of Part Two is now complete: https://youtu.be/Sih9qjBovSk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiMiT January 13, 2016 Share LiMiT Member January 13, 2016 Yeah, I've been watching and I'll go back and re-watch once I decide to give it a shot. Good stuff and keep up the awesome videos. I'd like to see follow-up videos with different recipes or other tips and pointers you may have. S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madvillain January 13, 2016 Share Madvillain Member January 13, 2016 Watched and rated both, thanks for the tutorials Vlad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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