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How to Make a Buckwheat Traditional Mead (At Home)

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Today we're making a buckwheat traditional mead! I recently purchased a bunch of buckwheat honey and I've always wanted to try making a mead with it. I must warn you, this honey is very strong! It might be an acquired taste, so just keep that in mind. I am attaching the recipe below if you would like to make it. Make sure hit like to help support the YouTube algorithm club!

Glorybee Buckwheat Honey: https://glorybee.com/raw-buckwheat-bl...

Buckwheat Traditional Mead Recipe:
1 Gallon of Spring Water
2 Pounds of Buckwheat Honey
2 Grams of Lalvin QA23
3.1 oz of Clover Honey (for backsweetening)

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20 Comments

@thisguy75 5 years ago

Just started a small hydromel with 1 pound of orange blossom and half a pound of buckwheat. Using ale yeast and planning to bottle carbonate to make something more beer like

@joelchrysler6238 5 years ago

Good timing! I just bought 3 pounds of buckwheat honey last week to make a traditional and this video comes out!

@silvianworker 5 years ago

I am glad to see somebody else using buckwheat honey. I made a mini brew with 1 pound of buckwheat to see how well it would work as I really like the taste of this type of honey. My honey was crystalized. The flavor was the same, but the resulting brew turned a light straw color.

@happycoredream7206 5 years ago

Hey love the channel, learned alot more here then my old chemistry class.

@almirria6753 5 years ago

This year I was able to get a goldenrod honey from my local bee keepers, that I used to make a medicinal mead. Which I will be bottling this weekend.

@daisyball2338 5 years ago

I bought some buckwheat honey and as soon as I have an open fermenter I'm gonna start a batch I always appreciate your inspiration

@kristopherwood7521 5 years ago

Just bottled a buckwheat Mead a few weeks ago. It tastes good, but still young. I'll check it again in January.

@earlhaines8797 5 years ago

I did this in two different ways, both were 1 gallon containers, both were traditional, one was with d-47, the other with bread yeast, the d-47 finish at 11.5% reminded me of a burbon taste, earthy tones, molasses flavor, now the bread yeast also finished at 11.5% , but was more enjoyable with lite sweetness, sometimes bread yeast will surprise you..
On a further note both batches had the same ingredients as far as nutrient, energizer, raisins ,and orange juice...

@AlexJoneses 5 years ago

Right in time for thanksgiving

@davidmcdonald4771 5 years ago

Thanks for the new mead. I told you a couple months ago that i had started a tangerine curry mead. Well i made a quart of the tangerine curry and so far it's not a very good combination. Too many spices in the curry and just seem to bury the flavor of the sweetness of the tamgerine and honey. Leaves a nasty hot taste. However with the other 1 1/2 gallons i added about 8 drops of fresh lime juice to the tangerine and raisin combination. This became a rather enjoyable balanced and flavorable mead. I realize that both meads are green so i am continuing to let them age for now.

@oscarmayer792 4 years ago

i added a little vanilla extract in the glass for my buckwheat mead, really helped.

@ashleysmith4155 5 years ago

I've got about 3 lbs of buckwheat I've been thinking about different projects with.

Thought about a hydromel with some and maybe a maple mead with the majority, still not sure though.

@jacksonsmith9735 5 years ago

Any taste updates since publishing this video? I just started a buckwheat hydromel, thinking about bottle carbonating, but I'm curious to see how yours tastes now. Love the channel!

@gregtheturner 5 years ago

I've tried a buckwheat honey recently that tasted like a horse stable. I definitely need to try another buckwheat honey if your's is good. Lol. Thanks!

@davidanthony8506 3 years ago

I was thinking about back sweetening with buckwheat honey on a traditional bochet mead fermentation

@Venusmoder 2 years ago

I was just at a local produce market and saw some local buckwheat honey and it really caught my interest! I got a 1 pound container of buckwheat and a 2 pound container of wildflower.

I wanted to ask, what flavors work well with buckwheat? Are there any fruits spices or add-ins that i could put in primary or secondary to bolster the flavor? Would buckwheat make a good cyser?