Category: Beer and Wine Making

In this video I am making mead like the Vikings did back in the day – without the addition of yeast from a bag. All the yeast that fermented the honey came from the ingredients used: the elderflowers, ginger bug and the wildflower honey itself. It’s super easy to make as well and the result

Pearocello is a very easy to make drink that you make by following recipes for Limoncello. Instead of using lemons you replace them by unripe pears. Let them sit in pure alcohol for a month and add a simple syrup. But the resulting liquid in bottles, and refrigerate. Enjoy this greenish, peary and smooth drink

Ginger bug is a mixture of ginger, sugar and water that has been allowed to ferment until it’s bubbly. It can be used to make all kinds of sodas and help with fermentation of mead. In this short video I’ll show you how to make ginger bug and how to use it to make wild

This video demonstrates how I follow my fool proof procedure for making a yeast starter. The liquid yeast that I use is a Wyeast 3068 smack pack. To get the exact required amount of yeast to pitch in the wort, I prepare the yeast starter in two steps. If you’re a home brewer and want

It’s time to brew beer again, together with my cousin Enrico. In this video we are going to use his Easy Brew 50L all-in-one automatic brewing system to brew a fantastic New England IPA. It is a programmable RIMS system which makes this homebrew adventure a breeze. For this New England style IPA (NEIPA) we

Homemade mead is delicious and in this video I am going to drink two varieties of mead. The first one was bottled over a year ago, the second one has been made a year ago and will be bottled in this video. The difference between these two varieties of mead is in the amount of

For over 10 years I have been home brewing beer. In this video I will be brewing an amazing New England style IPA. To home brew this NEIPA I will use a lot of hops, including Cascade, Citra and Galena. Never have I used this many hops in one brew before. In addition I try

This video is all about making a 5 liter batch of homemade sweet apricot wine from dried apricots. Will you choose to let me do the Cut Your Own Hair Challenge? Click here to go directly to the recipe.

Four weeks ago I showed how to make mead. In this video I will show you how I bottle a batch of mead made six months ago following a similar recipe. The most important thing in home brewing is cleaning and sanitizing, so I take a lot of time showing how to do this. Then,

Mead making, how hard can it be? This week I decided to try it out. Turns out that you don’t need that much equipment at all and the process is much simpler than for instance the beer brewing process. Get the best quality honey you can afford, some wine or mead yeast and yeast nutrient,