Khajiit Blood Butterfly Pea Mead!

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Жыл бұрын

Khajiit Blood Butterfly Pea Mead. We finally did it! We used butterfly pea in a mead. Adam, of "The Franklin" fame came up with this recipe for Khajiit Blood, a la Skyrim!
Ingredients:
2.3 lbs (1.04 kg) Wildflower Honey (thanks Tony!)
Water
6 Tablespoons Butterfly Pea Flower Tea: amzn.to/3E4Lkst
2 Tablespoons Hibiscus Tea: amzn.to/3tw4xhG
1/2 of a lemon zest
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Additions:
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1 lb (454 g) Blueberries
1/2 Cup Sugar
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@Kettengruppe653 Жыл бұрын

Brian, THWACK YOUR PACKET!!!!

@micahestep7679 Жыл бұрын

No thwacking? Wwwhhhhyyyyyyyy!!!!!

@edwardcunningham6315 Жыл бұрын

Let Brian Thwack his packet, I'll laugh along 🤣. I have damage to my hands, if I tried, the package may end up across the room 😁🤣👍

@travisgrimforge Жыл бұрын

THWACK THE PACKET BRIAN! I have a new recipe to try now. This looks awesome

@AdamFranklin500 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this recipe, im super happy about it. It does seems like Butterfly Pea Flower general is a tricksy hobbitsis for stalls. Love the colour change. Over the moon with the score so thank you. Glad i could share this awesomeness with two awesome people.

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

With this and The Franklin, you might have to keep feeding us recipes! ;) In all seriousness we really appreciate you and all you do for the channel (and us)!

@AdamFranklin500 Жыл бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews Thank you, love being a part of this amazing community you’ve built. I am 100% up for feeding you new recipes. I have a few up my sleeve. A couple i want to try to replicate, some that need slight adjustments and others that are good to go

@piercedupdude Жыл бұрын

I make a Hydromel (keg'd and carb'd) with orange blossom honey. It had an imitation grape (grape candy) flavor. Did a little researching and it seems that imitation grape can be produced by Orange Blossom!! To help link brain to flavor, I added 15 grams of butterfly pea tea flower to a 5gal fermenter for secondary. Its a beautiful purple, carbonated, and tastes like grape soda =D I call it "That purple stuff"

@annahoriatis5619 Жыл бұрын

Home depot or Lowes has paint straining bags (a 2 pack) for approx $4. They are fine mesh, elastic mouth for draping over carboy, and different sizes. Work awesomely.

@craigbryant9925 Жыл бұрын

A really cool use for Butterfly pea flowers is to freeze the tea into cubes and drop them into your drink. The cubes are blue and slowly change the colour of the drink as they melt.

@SouthValleyKnifeCo 9 ай бұрын

Works well in lemonade for little kids.

@timothynaquin8899 Жыл бұрын

HE DIDN'T THWAK THE PACKET.... NOOOOOOOO

@elricthebald870 Жыл бұрын

After seeing *Babish Culinary Universe* cook with Butterfly Pea about a week and a half ago I looked into it for it's amazing blue colour. How awesome would it be to make a vibrant blue mead without artificial colours. And then I learned about Butterfly Pea's pH sensitivity: pH 1-3 (red), 4-5 (colourless), 6-7 (blue), 8-9 (yellow).

@drewb207 Жыл бұрын

Great video guys. Remember to THWACK THE PACKET, but don't POP YOUR BUNG! LOL. I use soup socks for fruit and spice additions.

@TheVonhollan Жыл бұрын

I have been buying cheese cloth from the real deals store $1.25. 100% bleached cotton and 1.5 square yards. Leave it double this lay it in glass bowl then ad fruit to defrost. fold it tie it with butchers twine that i also paid $1.25 at the same store, put in the fermenter and dump the excess juice. trim with sizers after tied before putting in the fermenter. I prob should have said that in the last run on sentence!

@dawnteskey3259 Жыл бұрын

That looks amazing!

@Friedbrain11 Жыл бұрын

That color is great! That sounds like something I would love.

@amedaius8492 Жыл бұрын

20:00 no lie, this here should be a relationship goal. Also the reason relationships with (much) older or younger people usually don't work. Understanding each other even to the point of recognizing whatever reference and finishing the sentence for each other. More important than you might think!

@bostonelijah 9 ай бұрын

You guys got a crazy beautiful color!

@jonathanmiller2701 9 ай бұрын

Love your guy's videos! Gonna have to try this one sometime, great content. You guys make it easier to learn how to brew

@AnArchyzAch Жыл бұрын

Butterfly Pea Tea is dope! I've used it in my homeschooling lesson for my daughter. 🦋 💙💜

@johnherron3961 Жыл бұрын

Interesting brew. That color is so COOL!

@colinmacvicar2507 Жыл бұрын

A little tip for pouring your sample back in. Take the ball off of your baster and use it as a funnel. You can put the end right in your brew so it won’t splash and if you’re careful it will hardly disturb the lees. PS. Always thwack your packet.

@hammelbreu2059 Жыл бұрын

Nice. Thanks for the video and thanks to Adam for the recipe ❤

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

Yes! Thanks to Adam for another fantastic recipe! And thank YOU for watching!

@TheWonderwy Жыл бұрын

This was another fun video. Thanks guys!

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!

@MrAcuta73 Жыл бұрын

I want to try this with huckleberries. Been trying to figure out how I want to do a huckleberry melomel. I think this fits the bill nicely! That and it just LOOKS cool. The name would confuse all the non-nerds I know too. Which just makes it better. lol

@OdaFluff Жыл бұрын

That actually sounds really good!

@robertsullivan3970 8 ай бұрын

I love this format where you guys don't have any idea what's going on 😂 really fun!!

@alexcan669 Жыл бұрын

I’ve never used butterfly pea in any brew. That color looks beautiful great job guys

@ELECTROB01 Жыл бұрын

i love you guys channel so much and I am going to start making my own mead soon :)

@WagonPat88 Жыл бұрын

You guys are my favorite youtube brewers! Thanks for all the informative contents you two do. I tried making the honningbrew mead from the ES cookbook and it was a complete disaster. If you ever get a chance I'd love to see your take on it.

@TheTarotBard Жыл бұрын

Ive been waiting for this

@KernsJW Жыл бұрын

Sounds good, I would add some spices too. Looks like I now have a new tea to use!

@scotscottscottt 11 ай бұрын

Title alone makes this your best video of all time haha

@thegayfrogs8031 Жыл бұрын

First! Oo, this looks amazing! So glad this showed up in my notifications 🥰

@xucaen Жыл бұрын

This is a great video. Thank you!! Afterwards I'm going to look through your channel to see if you've already made videos on starter equipment, things I would need to buy if I want to start doing this at home. Thank you so much for this channel! ✌️💛🍷

@Michael-xd3sb 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the conversion you made, it really helps the European viewers. Keep up the good content!

@markwendt3496 Жыл бұрын

I have only made one mead that had things that required a bag, but I used a LD Carlson brand nylon mesh bag (fine mesh in my case). It worked well for the spices I added to the brew.

@NoahNobody Жыл бұрын

I recently finished making a liquor from Juneberries using the method from your limoncello recipe. It's awesome!

@juliaharbeck774 Жыл бұрын

I love using Butterfly pea tea. fun end results.

@wescrum1582 Жыл бұрын

I always get excited about a Soylent green reference!

@GeorgeSmyth Жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct with Safale S-04 - I just finished a brew with it and it came to 13.3% using the 131.25 multiplier.

@hotsauce1646 Жыл бұрын

This one is on the list to make

@sniktripn7217 8 ай бұрын

Just made this one and it is really nice Il be enjoying it tonight for sure thanks for the recipe guys

@CitySteadingBrews 8 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

@matthiasperez829 8 ай бұрын

20:46 was hilarious! I JUST ORDER MY MEAD KIT AND EVERYTHING I NEED FOR XMESS I CANT WAIT TO START MAKING MY FIRST MEAD!!!

@brettmcgaw6833 Жыл бұрын

Hi guys! Really love the fantasy inspired meads and wines. I'm also a really big fan of the alien movies and wonder what you guys would come up with for a xenomorph inspired mead or wine. You guys are amazing!!!!

@mikemuzzell5167 Жыл бұрын

The handle of the measuring cup picked up the blue and reds of the cups if ppl looked closely. And I love the Bob Ross shirt. 🤙. I also would love to see Derekica do an episode of her favourite fermentable. Favourite bag is one that works.

@jessbrakeman6987 Жыл бұрын

I tried some of the pea tea to make wine and bottled a month ago. My wife loved it.

@brianarnett1563 Жыл бұрын

I'm new to all of this but this is cool and can't wait to make my own meads

@phoff5850 Жыл бұрын

I used your patented folding technique on a bag of tortilla chips and it was airtight enough that I blew out the bottom of the bag. Will only be using it on low volume packages from now on

@eddavanleemputten9232 Жыл бұрын

Now I’m going to have to check out the availability and price of butterfly pea flowers. LOL!

@Skydaughter256 Жыл бұрын

THWACK YOUR PACKET!!!! XD This looks amazing! I have to add this to my To-Do list and bump it up pretty close to the top!

@b9brutality Жыл бұрын

Rainbow braids!?!?! That's like a braid upgrade! Love the mead, putting this on my list to make.

@peak2782 Жыл бұрын

I use the mesh bags sold in the grocery store for vegetables.

@johnrobinson3905 Жыл бұрын

I have yet to brew anything - though I've tried it before - but after finding your channel and watching quite a few of your videos, I think I'll give it a go. Next year. It's nearly winter here in sunny England. BTW, you two are just lovely!!

@BCbiker36 10 ай бұрын

Don’t wait till next year. Next year turns into next year turns into I just started my first batch 7 next years later. ADD is a real A hole.

@_Gart_ Жыл бұрын

I had this same thing happen with my viking blood mead. Forgot to account for the tart cherry syrup sugar content. It was at almost 12% and the gravity was still so high that it tasted like cough syrup. Restarted it with champagne yeast to get a little more sugar out and still had to dilute it with dry mead. Lessons learned.

@tech-reaver8457 Жыл бұрын

You a gamer too bro!!! Love these people.

@jimbojones9665 Жыл бұрын

The final color reminds me of purple Christmas lights. Looks purple at first, but a light shining through turns it almost pink.

@mykilpee Жыл бұрын

Finally doing this!!!! FYI pee flower is great for airlock joy... starsan makes it pink!

@Skulltap Жыл бұрын

Look for cider/fruit press bags. They are typically 200-250 microns vs the usual 80 microns on a nut milk bag. You could still end up with the same result though depending on the fruit used in the bag. One trick you can use is to add the bag to the bowl then the fruit to the bag before adding to the fermenter. Just hold the bowl over the fermenter when transferring the bag in to keep any drips in either the bowl or the fermenter. Any remaining juice can simply be poured in. You could even use bowl with a pour spout or the big dawg pyrex measuring cup depending on how much fruit you use.

@davidgaylord2952 Жыл бұрын

I would recommend using grain steeping bags that you would use for beer making

@Drajika Жыл бұрын

i made a blueberry mead with butterfly pea powder!! it was beautiful purple during prime fermentation! now after 4 and a half week and first gravity reading is done its acually more red :D! thinking about adding more butterfly pea powder in one bottle later when i know its done fermenting :D!!!

@Drajika Жыл бұрын

OG = 1.113. FG = 1.022

@kevinkever Жыл бұрын

most of the time when back sweetening mead, i go with honey since this is also your first sugar source with fermenting

@crapsforlife3023 7 ай бұрын

The best bags I have found is at home depot. they are paint strainers, you can get them in a two pack for a couple of bucks. they come in 1 gal or 5 gal size and they have elastic tops. they sink to the bottom of fermenter every time. Thanks for the videos and keep on brewing.

@CitySteadingBrews 7 ай бұрын

Not sure those are food safe though.

@nomadjon4465 Жыл бұрын

THWACK YOUR PACKET BRIAN!!! , but in all seriousness looks amazing great video.

@marshaross4255 Жыл бұрын

Loooooove the shirts especially the DND ones.

@caterack8875 Жыл бұрын

my favorite bags to use are: SUNPRO, Brew In A Bag. 2 pack (22'' x26'') i believe they sell smaller ones as well. anyway, loved this video!! It was awesome!!!!

@trentwalters Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love hibiscus especially in a wine but the tea is awesome and love the color this is my next mead

@trentwalters Жыл бұрын

Btw Thwack your Packet Brian

@elricthebald870 Жыл бұрын

Made an hibiscus/cinnamon liquor some time ago. Amazing colour and taste.

@trentwalters Жыл бұрын

Just started this mead today like an hour ago, I added a little more honey and I added the EC1118 for hopefully no stall I love the color

@edwardcunningham6315 Жыл бұрын

I picked up a few large (24cup) coffee filters. I'll be trying one in my upcoming coffee wine recipe to hold coarse coffee beans. I wonder also about the breathability of the material 👍❤️

@Markus__B Жыл бұрын

If you´re looking for brewbag alternatives, i use a hop-spider. i found one that just fits the opening of my big mouth fermenters. the closed top is keeping everything fully submerged.

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

@James-hp3rg Жыл бұрын

That colour is as mad as a bag of spiders 😳 Adding to my future brews, cheers !!

@dennisn.8137 Жыл бұрын

Hey guys, love your videos. Can you tell me in which of your last videos you talked about batch pasteurization?

@benway23 10 ай бұрын

As far as bags to hold fruit and stuff I have always just used cheesecloth. But I am a cheap bastard. Thank you for your work.

@louiel8711 Жыл бұрын

Try using a full packet of s-04 yeast for mead and do it like a step feed, beer yeast doesn't really like low PH must. Great video as always.

@tombrabant7097 Жыл бұрын

I use paint bags from Home Depot they work great and are easy to wash

@ravenone9128 Жыл бұрын

I realize this is several months old now, and perhaps you have already found a good solution to the "bag issue"... BUT! in case you haven't, My wife had some brand new mesh laundry bags that are of varying sizes... I may or may not have reallocated a good medium/small bag (sanitized of course) and it appears to be working well! Caveat: I just started making mead and wine a couple months ago... so I... DON'T know what I'm doing... but so far it's working well, for whatever that's worth!

@MervynL Жыл бұрын

Hi. I use the mesh bags we have in supermarkets to replace plastic bags for fruit and vegetables! They work brilliantly and are drawstring. Oh I'm in the CZ.

@julietardos5044 Жыл бұрын

I use the same, from Trader Joe's. They work well for brewing.

@rachellemazar7374 Жыл бұрын

My husband loves having m laugh a your videos😅 This one is very entertaining with the color change and jokes

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@sonofnox607 Жыл бұрын

for smaller amounts I use rumble jars, they are made for cold brew coffee but work fine to strain out solids and for larger amounts can just use several of them.

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

Yes! We have used rumble jars many times before! Great for dry ingredients that you want to steep in brew.

@CarlPapa88 Жыл бұрын

Don't know if it's just me, so I figured I'd bring it up. I noticed you remove your bung/airlock the same "tilt & wiggle" way I do. ...I've snapped the stem off 3 of the S-type airlocks that way. Anyone else? Oh! Awesome color btw. Another ingredient I gotta order me some of now. Haha

@rattlesnakz9716 Жыл бұрын

Hey, loving the videos ATM, on a binge session for a few days, Just wondering if you have ever thought about making a type of honey beverage called braggot, I would be very interested to see that

@CitySteadingBrews Жыл бұрын

We did that! 🤓 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aM9jktKCvdfdeWw.html

@Sunseahl Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of how you two made the Klingon Bloodwine.

@Backdaft94 Жыл бұрын

I use the LD Carlson mesh bags, since I make alot of fruit wines. Can't believe B didn't thawk his packet!!!

@DeathbyNoob15 Жыл бұрын

If my math is right, then according to that 1.7lbs per 1000 gal measurement, the conversion should be about 1/8 teaspoon (specifically ~0.1307 teaspoons) of yeast hulls for 1 gallon.

@tikkidaddy 9 ай бұрын

You know I have to bring up Romulan Ale when you start with the blue food thing

@dfitzger Жыл бұрын

Come up to the Homebrew shop in Dunedin sometime, we have some nice nylon bags with drawstrings that are perfect for wine making. I use them all the time for my gallon batches

@CitySteadingBrews 10 ай бұрын

David! Which shop is yours? We are planning to come tomorrow!

@dfitzger 10 ай бұрын

@@CitySteadingBrews Vetterbrew Homebrew Supply! Close by Countryside Mall right off 580

@hondatuner5156 Жыл бұрын

It took several hours to deal with, but i got 30 gallons of fresh pomegranate juice.... lets get to brewing!

@joshuaapt6417 Жыл бұрын

Been making wine and mead with butterfly pea tea for years. It tastes great 👍. Left a comment on one of your video's about my recipe a month back.

@generrosity Жыл бұрын

Knowing how it changes, do you ever get a blue wine/mead out of it? If so, what party trick do you add to get people while drinking it?

@joshuaapt6417 Жыл бұрын

@@generrosity I usually don't add much of anything to it because it changes the the ph level, which changes the color. When someone wants to taste it (everyone loves it),I usually add a tsp of lemon juice per glass and it turns from a blue to a bright purple almost lilac color.

@joshuaapt6417 Жыл бұрын

@@generrosity I usually steep 10 tea bags per qt, 4 times per gallon and add desired sugar till the gravity I want. Usually comes out in the 1.100 range and goes completely dry with no backsweeting and maintains a sweet flavor.

@CarlPapa88 Жыл бұрын

What is the flavor of just the butterfly pea tea on its own?

@generrosity Жыл бұрын

@@CarlPapa88 very weakly 'green plant' if made like any other flower tea - it's all colour 😆

@kurtgreen1040 Жыл бұрын

Magic Mead

@JoeSteffy1932 Ай бұрын

I like brew socks, for hop additions. About the size of a tube sock but made from a cheese cloth material and with a draw string. 🍻

@CitySteadingBrews Ай бұрын

We have small cheesecloth bags, same concept.

@Ditzy_Kitty Жыл бұрын

I love your videos! The color to this mead was so cool! I'm wondering have you guys ever tried making Blaand a milk mead I'm so curious. It might be my next project but I would love your guy's input or a video on it🤩 🥛🍯🤔

@craigbryant9925 Жыл бұрын

I'm going to get back into cheese making and will have quite a bit of whey as a result so I am really stoked to make some Blaand too.

@spanthrax Жыл бұрын

You could partially pre-cut a tear notch into the sealed edge to avoid it going everywhere

@lukeshedid650 Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of Araq. It’s a traditional Arabic drink. It’s clear as water until you dilute it, then it turns white like milk. I’d love a video on how to make an araqi-mel. That’s be so cool if it turns white when you dilute.

@craigbryant9925 Жыл бұрын

Arak\Araq is similar to Ouzo. They are both anise flavoured liqueurs and, just like absinthe, the reason it turns milky is because you change the oil solubility by adding water. Called louching, this also happens with some gins. The important part here is that these are all distilled, increasing their alcohol content high enough for it to dissolve all the oils which will then lead to the louching when you add water. I'm fairly confident that it's something that isn't possible through fermentation alone because it requires quite a high abv.

@GranitePropServices Жыл бұрын

It's people! (16:44 reference)

@johnnytoy5487 Жыл бұрын

Small delicate garment wash bag.

@davidmathieson8661 Жыл бұрын

Hmmm now I'm thinking about how to incorporate a "moon sugar" "skooma" element...for those of you who know "Khajit has wares". Thinking possibly Buzz Button flowers would give a more physically sensory experience which could be pretty fun

@lbdhoyte Жыл бұрын

for small amounts, like the blueberries, I would probably use a large hop sock.

@elricthebald870 Жыл бұрын

Same here. Got a few, and they can easily contain an entire kilo of fruit.

@MarkTheNewf Жыл бұрын

Nice. I make a mead using hot peppers from our garden along withe the butterfly pea flowers. It's initially blue but the acidity (I assume the honey) makes it turn purple. I named it "Purple Nerpal". I'd hoped that it would have stayed light blue. The plan was to freeze-concentrate it and call it my Romulan Ale....nope. No worries!

@Amy_the_Lizard Жыл бұрын

Maybe it'd turn blue again if you added a touch of baking soda to make it more alkaline?

@bostonelijah 9 ай бұрын

I didn’t use hibiscus tea and I used orange blossom honey and I got a crazy gray color! Insane lol

@DeathbyNoob15 Жыл бұрын

So I actually just did a very similar mead that was blueberry honey, butterfly pea blossom and hibiscus (I made a tea with the gallon of water using 0.5 oz each of hibiscus and butterfly pea), lemon peel, and 3lbs of blueberries. I did blueberries in primary and not in secondary, however, and instead of backsweetening with sugar I used maple syrup and additional wildflower honey. It’s pretty good, but I’m definitely curious about what the differences between our brews are.

@blondequijote 8 ай бұрын

I really like the idea of backsweetening with maple syrup.

@blondequijote 8 ай бұрын

Update for preliminary taste testing of Brays one month mead fermented dry and backsweetened with approx 2 tsp maple syrup in 8 iz glass: While I tasted and enjoyed the maple syrup flavor on the backend, I noticed improved mouthfeel more than the sugar in the syrup.

@edwardcunningham6315 Жыл бұрын

The blue reminds me of RASPBERRIES 😁

@David-we3sb 8 ай бұрын

Great video! Been going through a bunch of em and enjoying them. What would have happened if you added the 1/2 c sugar at the beginning must, before the yeast? Still new to all of this

@CitySteadingBrews 8 ай бұрын

It might have fermented it out, or could stall due to stressed yeast.