Cranberry Sauce Mead - A Holiday Mead!

Рет қаралды 2,403

2 жыл бұрын

Happy holidays everyone! This mead turned out to be so DELIGHTFUL! I highly recommend making it if you have access to cranberries! This is even good WARM.
If I made this again I would use a yeast like 71B instead of QA23 just because I haven't had the best of luck with that one personally. I would also start with a lower gravity just to be sure I ended up with a lower ABV again.
My cousin's sauce:
1/2 cup sugar, brown sugar and orange juice. Mix all wet ingredients and melt together. Next add bag of cranberries and cinnamon (a tsp I believe?)
Honestly I recommend skipping the powdered cinnamon and just adding a stick.
Sauce inspiration is from yellowblissroad.com
1 12oz bag cranberries, 2 sweet mandarin oranges, 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar and 1/8tsp orange extract (never used the extract).
The sauce I MADE:
1/2 cup sugar, brown sugar, and orange juice melted together. 3 mandarin oranges and about a bag and a half of cranberries (frozen and thawed). Add cinnamon stick directly into mead.
WARNING: Add a clearing agent if having a clear mead is something you really want in a timely fashion! Mine is still foggy as all heck!
Presumably you won't have any issues with stuck fermentation - I would use about 2lb orange blossom honey next time perhaps? Unless you want a full strength mead, then go for 3lb.
After primary (yeast of choice and cranberry juice, honey and water - on a nutrient schedule), stabilize, then rack onto the cranberry sauce and cinnamon stick. Leave two weeks or so, then transfer - I transferred the cinnamon stick as well.
Clear and bottle! :-) Or don't clear, just drink it cause it's amazing! Haha
*********************************************************************************
I am a Home-brew Ohio Affiliate! Click on the link below to shop for home-brew supplies and get free shipping if you order $59.99 or over. By shopping through my link, you will help the channel out greatly!
lddy.no/zgit
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link: bookshop.org/shop/faewoodmead
For books that I've enjoyed :-p
Join the Faewood Mead Patreon for exclusive perks, and to further support this channel! I appreciate you!
/ faewoodmead
For all the links in one, including an Amazon wishlist, please click on the link below:
linktr.ee/FaewoodMead
Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links and I receive a commission if you visit a link and buy something on my recommendation. Purchasing via an affiliate link doesn’t cost you any extra, and I only recommend products and services I trust. All opinions are my own.
Inquiries: Faewoodmead@gmail.com
Music:
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0
Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/dance-of-the-sugar-plu...
Music promoted by Audio Library • Dance of the Sugar Plu...
Frost Waltz by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0
Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/frost-waltz
Music promoted by Audio Library • Frost Waltz - Kevin Ma...
Deck the Halls B by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0
Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/deck-the-halls-b
Music promoted by Audio Library • Deck the Halls B - Kev...

Пікірлер: 67

@eddavanleemputten9232 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Cranberry sauce mead… why haven’t I thought of that? I absolutely love cranberry sauce! Congratulations on the move and happy thanksgiving!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Haha, thank you so much Edda! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

@danharkness7868 2 жыл бұрын

This looks great. I am happy for you that your patience turned out such a nice drink. Way to go. Nice video also.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@stanleygrover1685 2 жыл бұрын

I like your INFO'S!!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :-p

@jeffconstantine4341 2 жыл бұрын

That looks like it will be a tasty mead!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Ummm it's amazing haha!

@stephenhegarty6032 2 жыл бұрын

Ok Just bottled the Cranberry Sauce mead and I have to say it’s the best I have ever made….and this will be ready for thanksgiving or Christmas 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☘️

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Omg yeeessss 🙌🏻 I’m excited for you!

@directx3497 2 жыл бұрын

I may make this now for next year!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Please do it!

@juliaharbeck774 2 жыл бұрын

I just cracked a bottle I made 7 months ago. It was lightly carbonated, crisp and tasty with a smokiness to it. Maybe because I used mesquite honey. Simply delicious. I did not like it originally so age made it shine.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Ooooo yummy! I haven’t tried mesquite honey yet 🍯

@stanleygrover2162 2 жыл бұрын

May you be blessed with a happy house!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stanley!

@StoneyardVineyards 2 жыл бұрын

Have a great Thanksgiving.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, you too!

@crowjr2 2 жыл бұрын

So good that it sounds like it attained orbit! hah I've had this bottle of cranberry juice laying around wondering what to do with it. I think this will fit the bill! Thanks for the recipe.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Hurraaaay! :-p

@directx3497 2 жыл бұрын

Happy thanksgiving!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, same to you!

@annathiika5755 2 жыл бұрын

I love those Knudsen juices, the way the glass they come in is just coated in the color of the juice makes me think “damn that’s nice juice”

@annathiika5755 2 жыл бұрын

Oof and yeah cranberries are really high in pectin, that’s why cranberry sauce makes a nice without adding any additional thickener like cornstarch. If it it tastes amazing but doesn’t clear 🤷‍♀️ just means it has a bit of extra mouthfeel

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

RIGHT?!? I feel the same way! Haha, yeeaaah somehow in my research I didn't come across that info! I will for sure grab some pectinase stuff for next time.

@julietardos5044 2 жыл бұрын

I made a cider with cranberry and spices. It's very nice. Tart, though, probably needs a little maple syrup in the glass.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Omg that whole combo sounds amazing!!! 😍

@julietardos5044 2 жыл бұрын

@@FaewoodMead I'm saving it all for Thanksgiving.

@Nestlethehobgoblin 2 жыл бұрын

I actually made a similar recipe as a red wine. I used mandarin orange peel, cranberry juice, brown sugar, and I left a bunch of cloves and cinnamon sticks in secondary to age on for like 6 or 7 months. Turned out very pleasantly spicy.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Delicious!!!

@nathanhoffman8246 2 жыл бұрын

I made a cranberry mead a couple months ago and had the same issue of it stalling at 1.033 from 1.110 even after repitching a different yeast. Just finally stabilized and racked.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Those darned acidic cranberries! I think I will make this again, but but just start the mead as a traditional, let it go dry, and then put the stabilized mead on top of the cranberry sauce. I think letting it sit for like, 3 weeks should be perfect!

@nathanhoffman8246 2 жыл бұрын

@@FaewoodMead that sounds like a better idea then using juice. I'm just waiting to try mine. I added cinnamon, orange peel, allspice and clove, hopefully this weekend I'll be racking and bottling, it smells amazing tho. Thanks for all the great videos and info.

@stephenhegarty6032 2 жыл бұрын

This looks like a wine that is made a local winery (Montezuma Wine) north of Seneca Lake and it is called Cranberry Bog and it is one that is good chilled but recommended for mulling so this recipe is definitely a make for the next year holidays ☘️

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Ooooo I love this information!

@baghdaddy202003 2 жыл бұрын

My cranberry wine stalled around the same SG reading. I used pure cranberry juice and while dried cranberries. I've learned that the cranberries are very acidic and require some correction and loads of nutrients. Basically you need to make the absolute perfect environment for the yeast. Next year's will be similar to yours but with apple cider instead of water and some cinnamon.

@baghdaddy202003 2 жыл бұрын

I watched all the way and noticed you did add cinnamon

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Oooooh interesting! I will test acidity next time - I always forget I have little test strips! Good to know, I definitely want to make this again like... asap! Yes there is a cinnamon stick! It's so good with the cranberry! I think your mead idea sounds delicious!

@stanleygrover2162 2 жыл бұрын

Try use I gotta a size 5.5 or 5 drilled cork with your air locks . But don’t push too hard with the 5 you would force it into the bottle.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

I think I tried to find something smaller in my home-brew shop and they were all out!!! Probably because everyone has the same issue in the summer.

@basicems24 2 жыл бұрын

I'm in the process of developing an all cranberry juice Christmas mead. I would bet the problem was the acidity of the must. Cranberry juice pH is between 2.0 and 2.5. Must wouldn't even start fermenting until I buffered the must with calcium carbonate up to a pH of 4.0. Highly acidic solutions can inhibit fermentation and even kill yeast

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Aaaaah that's what I need for next time! I hadn't realized they were so heavily acidic! Thanks for the tip!

@albertjodoin5864 3 ай бұрын

You might want to test the acidity first because yeast likes it around 4 to 5.5. Then it should go dry.

@jturn4646 2 жыл бұрын

We live near the ocean spray plant here in NJ

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Really?!? Wowza!

@ritawehner 2 жыл бұрын

What was the final gravity after the cranberry sauce? I'm guessing it ended up pretty sweet.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

You know Rita.... I didn't take one. I'm not sure why... what... a knuckle-head.

@ritawehner 2 жыл бұрын

@@FaewoodMead Oh well. I always like to know the final specific gravity of the brews I make. Hey, I came up with a similar mead recipe using cranberry sauce in Primary and it turned out pretty good. I'm going to try another batch your way. I just made a variation of your cranberry sauce today, using maple syrup for part of the sugar and adding a splash of Cointreau after it cooled. Yummy stuff!

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

@@ritawehner I like to know too! I'm surprised I didn't take an absolute final gravity! Oooo omg that sounds DELISH!!!!

@rossk7927 Жыл бұрын

I wonder what your musts starting pH was, I'm suspicious that the slow fermentation could have been because of the high acid (low pH) content.

@FaewoodMead Жыл бұрын

I completely agree! I ought to have used PH test strips, it turns out cranberry juice in particular is highly acidic!

@Kannushi5 2 жыл бұрын

Serious question, do most of your primary fermentations only take a couple weeks? I use Lalvin 71B most of the time and usually takes upwards of 4-5 weeks for me.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Usually they're pretty quick. I think the average time span is anywhere from a week to a month for a complete fermentation. I wonder why yours takes longer on average?

@Kannushi5 2 жыл бұрын

@@FaewoodMead I just started a traditional (3lbs honey and water to one gallon) with a chopped jalapeno in primary. I'll make note to keep an eye on this one for timing.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Bless, good luck!

@Kannushi5 2 жыл бұрын

@@FaewoodMead Glad you replied back! So my jalapeno mead was started 11/21 spgr:1.110. Lalvin 71b. Today (12/12) it's still bubbling but suuuuuper slow. So still going but we're just about done. 👍

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kannushi5 Oh goooood! I hope it turns out great!

@HolyPineCone 2 жыл бұрын

Some meads take 5-6 months to finish for me. For some reason they just refuse to clear. I made two versions of juniper mead this fall. One with juniper needles and green berries and the other with ripe berries. The needle one finished in 1,5 months and the other is still going 6 months later. I have no idea why.

@FaewoodMead 2 жыл бұрын

Yeeaaaah some meads are just... stubborn! Oooh how are those? Juniper is such an interesting flavor!

@HolyPineCone 2 жыл бұрын

@@FaewoodMead tastes great in my opinion. Even more fun when you can forage them where you live