Chouchen! It’s French Mead that starts out as Hard Cider. I know what you’re thinking… how is this different than a cyser? Well, in this video we talk about that a lot and explain how it’s different, make a batch, then taste it and describe the flavor differences!
Ingredients:
96 fluid oz Apple Juice
1/2 Packet SafCider AB1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK2NPC6V
OG 1.048
Additions:
Buckwheat Honey to 1.032: https://amzn.to/48vDWqk
Buckwheat Honey to 1.022
Buckwheat Honey to 1.020
Buckwheat Honey to 1.010
Honey to 1.022
Honey to 1.014
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26 Comments
Have you ever considered using a magnetic stir plate? Especially with these step feed additions? If you are looking for a video idea… 🙂 I would be curious about the results.
Thanks for the videos!
I did a mango passion fruit mead that was amazing. I wondering if you two could make a version of it. I got the passion fruit from the frozen section at Walmart and I used fresh mango chunks in primary.
Got a setup to infuse pure O2 into primary. Be interesting to see if it makes much difference. Got a BUNCH of stuff from a beer brewer selling off his gear. Including lab equipment to culture yeast….which I will never do. lol
Buckwheat honey is some strange stuff. Would really be interesting to try fermenting it. Being a Cyser might make it more….drinkable. LOL
You guys are a great team. I've used several of your recipes. Keep the vids coming. Happy Holidays.
As Brian was aerating the juice with the baster I thought that is like a fish tank air stone and a air pump. Then I thought just to get under someones skin getting a stone and small air pump to aerate would be something Brian would love to do every so often.
Here in Britanny, Chouchenn is just the local name for mead, when you use cider as a base it's Chufere (anyway "Chouchenn" is historically only a commercial name from the XX century) I'm actually at the time clarifying my first batch, and my second batch is on its way. Thanks a lot for this video, my target was 10°, but i may go farther after watching your work. Anyway, i won't use Buckwheat honey only, or any honey only because the apple aroma is somewhat lost in my first brew and i want to get it back, so probably 50% sugar 50% honey.
Hey guys!
My first (and last) Buckwheat honey mead had the same earthy note, I fixed it with pickled ginger and little Hot Honey. It's potable.. which is a great thing since I bought 10lbs (on sale)
THANKS for all your coaching on post-primary flavor adjustments. 2.5 years and still learning thanks to you guys!!! So glad I found this hobby.
I have made this twice. First time I didn’t have buckwheat honey and the second time I did. I put apples in primary in the first one and on the second one I put apples in primary and in finishing. Second one came out the best.
One of my favorites is a step-fed cyser. My latest addition is a bottle of Fireball.
Awesome show!❤ How many types of apple mead receptshave you made on the channel now?😊
I love all your videos but I am really drawn to the simple ciders. Thank you.
You fixed the buckwheat flavor by adding the wildflower at the end
Can’t wait to see this after a year. PS; I’m extremely anal when it comes to quantities, so I do it in grams. And if I do the rinse trick, any moisture left behind is less than a gram or two. So the final weight after all the liquid is back in still gives me an exact figure of how much honey was added.
Question i got a 64 oz jug of slurry mix of lees from doing apple cider wanna do another one behind it can just put a another bottle of 64 oz of apple juice and should it start to ferment, or should i start completely over with a new packet?
Your guys' videos are great!!
I wonder if your could step feed different fermentables, like start apple, feed honey, then feed maple, then feed brown sugar, etc.
Started a ginger brew over two weeks ago and completely ignored it until an hour ago. It's still offgassing but went from 1.090 to .980. I thiiiink it's done. What y'all think?
At 24:58 if you had left it on the scale, you would have been able to read the increase in weight (mass) of the remaining hunneh in the jar more accurately.
oh that sounds fun!
The best meads are Polish "półtorak" and "dwójniak" meads 😎
You should try that
NO LLAMAS!!!!! Sorry, I just have a hate hate relationship with them.
I wonder if a stir plate would work.
So much great information, makes me want to crack open my cyser tonight
This has a really nice colour to it. I'll have to find out if we get Buckwheat honey in Australia, I've never come across it before.
I'm going to be starting my ANZAC mead (Eucalypt and Manuka), this week, so it should be cleared, degassed and ready to bottle before ANZAC Day, in April.
Interesting thanks
I love buhwheat pancakes. I've never had buckwheat honey before, I need to try it.