Making Proper Viking Mead with Nidhoggr Mead
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2022
- This video is sponsored by Nidhoggr Mead! They very kindly invited me to their wonderful and very dangerous meadery in Pocklington, just outside the notoriously beautiful, medieval, and Viking city of York!
As if being invited to a lovely Yorkshire village full of mead, medieval weapons and reenactors wasn't enough, I even got to try my hand at making mead in a real and proper meadery instead of just in my kitchen!
Come and learn how to make top quality, award winning mead with me and the Nidhoggr gang as the honey flows and maybe, just maybe, you'll get to see some silliness and sword fighting as well!
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One of them's even Welsh!
I wandered away for a few weeks and I’m baaaack! I enjoyed your video on mead, and will have to buy some. But which one? So happy to see your channel again. Enough of American Idol!
Bummed they dont ship internationally. Anyone have any recommendations for good mead being sold in AUS let me know.
I was gonna ask if they shipped across the pond to the U.S.A, but then I saw the reply from gelfrog93 and went, "NOOOOOO...." I SO wanna try the ginger mead.... **cries** I love mead and I love ginger and that seems like such a great combo.
Now THAT is a sponsorship deal that is on-brand for the channel!
This is partly why I have so few! Only stuff I like/use gets through the fine mesh of selection! XD
I'm taking like 2% credit for making this happen 😂 as soon as I saw you on a video ask for sponsors I found your website and sent Peter the link to your contact form and told him this needs to happen. Loved the video. Love Nidhoggr mead. 10/10 very informative
You are the hero we needed.
MY KING
“I’m not just saying that cause he’s paying me…
…I’m saying that and he’s also paying me!”
The genuine excitement 😂
Aw yes, mead! I keep making mead, forgetting I don't actually really like alcohol. >_< So if anyone wants plum mead, I can throw a bottle at you.
I’ll take up that offer! Haha!
Hit me with that mead.
I don't drink at all, but I'd love to sample that for sure! I've tried plum wine and it was really good!
Yes please
So not about mead but I want to say thank you Jimmy thanks to you and a couple of other channels admittedly sewing based I've come to realize that I'm not the only person interested in all the little intricacies of History and the human story so because of you and a few other creators I've decided to go get my degree in anthropology and hopefully move on from there to become an archaeologist so thank you
Best wishes for you. Do you have a period of history/civilization that you want to focus on? 👍🤗🖖
@@rainydaylady6596 I'm hoping to figure that out soon because my historical interests are kind of broad so at this point it's just starting my journey
Hell yeah. Another one to the anthropology gang. Welcome to the family mate.
I really loved my Cultural Anthropology elective while getting my Civil Engineering Degree.
"This is the stuff that doesn't get passed 'round the fire!" High praise indeed! I love seeing how things are made. Thanks for taking us on this adventure with you, Jimmy.
Me: *Adds 4 bottles to cart.*
The internet: Shipping not available for the selected address.
Me: *weeps openly*
My experience as well. Boo!
Funnily enough, the squirrell is actually the only animal around Yggdrasil I personally remember. I completely forgot there was supposed to be a serpent and an eagle. A squirrell running up and down a tree? Yes, please.
Taking husband's kitchen mead up a level. Wow.
Would you consider doing a video on graveyard culture? Perhaps for Celtic or Scandinavian peoples?
That would be aswesome.
Actually ...
My maternal grandfather, and his father before him, kept bees, and two of my cousins kept up the tradition.
Well once on a convention one of the members very proudly served "honeywine" strong "wine" made of fermented honey, for the exhibition of products out honey or beeswax, and everybody agreed it was very tasty and better than all kind of famous sweet, strong wines. Only one small, tiny , little, but sort of important problem: It was illegal.
Here we have a law against fermenting flowers and fermenting honey.
My grandfather also used to make wine, he had a wine stock in his greenhouse ...
And one of my cousins is actually into viking reenacting, so maybe he could have been involved somewhere sometime, or tempted into some experimental reenactment of how honey was used ... but he might not.
"And I've had some NICE things in my mouth." --Jimmy
I love to see you highlighting excellent craftsmen, even if they are paying you😉.
Well now I just need to buy a ticket for a transatlantic flight and a hotel room in which to get mead-smashed.
saaaaame
I find it interesting that released this video the day before World Bee Day where we celebrate all the reasons why Bees are important. In this case supplying the basis for Mother's Milk... erm I mean Mead! Oh, and I was glad to see that they will ship internationally. Though I wonder what the duties are to ship to the US. I shall have to look into that.
It was £40 to ship a bottle to Massachusetts. 👍
@@mbuhtz Oi! That’s too rich for my wallet.
@@theplussizecostumer yeah, mine too, but I have a couple London (UK) friends who will be receiving yummy holiday gifts!
We have beehives on our farm, and the beekeeper pays us in honey. When my Dad retired he started making mead and it's just... *chef kiss*
I love this! I would love more tours by Jimmy. The castle tour was great, this was so chill, please more places and making of ❤️
And history.
And sewing, obviously.
The reviews are fun too.
... You know what actually I think this is just the best channel on yt, it's all good 😂❤️
Nidhoggr was the first mead I tried at the Hilt/Hjolt in York, great stuff!
Well worth going there for the chips alone tbh, plus there's an axe -throwing place I've not actually been to yet
"my roller skate of a car" may be my new favorite phrase
Nice. Nanny Ogg would approve (wondering how well mead would convert to scumble).
Nice ad for Big Dug shelving too...! And makes me think of when I was struggling with filtration purification (it was fiddly as f***).
Over 20 years ago, during my Ren Faire phase, I also made "stovetop mead" . . . twice, so I know how you feel. It took my until my second attempt to make sure it was a LIQUID, and not a syrup!
The random open microphone bits between scenes makes me think that this is a nice place to work
I’ve yet to try mead and I’ve always wanted to. This convinced me to buy some lol
Kinda proud to have met the guys of gold medal winning Nothern Mead that was from honey from local fields. We loved it of course. Now I am compelled to also taste the Nidhogger mead! That ginger mead sounds right for me. Excellent video!
I actually just bought a bottle of their mead. Happily sipped through half of it already and would highly recommend the TRADITIONAL MEAD, sweet and 18%!
Been binge watching the channel all this week and I have never tried mead at the ripe old age of 34 so decided to go out of my way to buy a bottle but wanted somewhere near by and low and behold Thursday last week I prearranged a visit to Nidhoggr to buy a bottle then watch this and find it to be award winning well looks like my little trip from Hull is going to be worth it 🥂🍻
I feel like I've only ever had BAD mead, so I wish I was in the UK to try thiss!!
Sometimes it's just trying to find a flavor that works for you. I've tried a lot of meads that were syrupy sweet and I didn't care for it, but I found meads flavored with sour apples or cranberries and those I particularly love!
Morrison's own brand 👍
@@ericsmith3495 Ummm... it's honestly really hard to compare because Mead is kind of its own thing. It's sometimes considered a wine but I don't think that's accurate since it's fermented with honey instead of fruit. And likewise meads have a lot of variance to their alcohol content. Some are about the same as most beers at around 4-6% ABV and I've had some that were over 20% ABV. If you go for a lighter mead it would be more beer like but a harder one is going to be closer to a wine I guess and the harder ones are typically thicker and sweeter because more honey was used to ferment them.
Sometimes they're a little syrupy so what I often do is mix a lighter and often more sour mead (sometimes Ale) with the sweeter harder mead to balance them out.
Finally showed my partner this video as he likes mead. His mouth was watering throughout the video, so I bought him a bottle of the Ginger Mead. He also wants to get some brandy now he's seen the cocktail list!
Now this is a sponsorship I can get behind 😎🍺
Honestly, I've never been much of a fan of mead but I have a suspicion I've only ever had the overly sweet stuff, you totally convinced me to try again!
Also honestly thank you for this video, I'm high key stressed from thesis writing crunch-time and this totally got my mood up, it seemed like you had such a good time! made me think that maybe I'll be able to do stuff like try new alcoholic beverages once this is over 😂
So much tidier than our Meadery! They have more space than we do.
The guys at Nidhoggr are awesome, watched them grow from small stalls to this over the years, and shared a few drinks (and sore heads) along the way. Great people and -most importantly - great mead!
Joseph said "over ice cream" right when I was thinking it! Spent most of my adult life in the alcohol biz, and mead was always a personal fave. great video!
Love it! Great minds obviously think together!
Yet another reason for me to come visit.
I'm the bookkeeper at a cidery and it's fascinating how it's similar and different. It's wild to me how many small batches they do! More labor, but more control
I loved the Monty Python interval music. Instant flashback to happier times.
We met them at the Colchester Medieval Festival this weekend. I mentioned I'd watched this video and treated myself to a bottle of Apple and Rhubarb 😊xx
Looks like visiting was great fun. Checked out the site immediately after the video finished, couldn't quite work out if they ship to the USA, probably not... damned tax laws.... Ah, well, I will just have to make a trip over to get my duty limit plus whatever my kidneys will hold :D
Yeah, I just tried and they won't ship to me in California. Boo!
They'll ship to Massachusetts. Each state has its own alcohol import laws though
How did you become acquainted with a gentleman like Peter? 🤭🤭🤭
Lovely video. Would prolly be cheaper for me to go there and acquire some than to have it shipped to the West Coast, USA. Besides, if I were there, I could follow the alternate tour that you presented!
The discount code still works, and now a couple of my London friends are getting delicious mead for Christmas/Solstice
you guys: mead, meads (obviously)
auto-captions: meat? meal?? leaves?? needs??
Great video! What about a nice little photoshoot with Jimmy in Viking garb - with a crystal goblet of your mead in his hands!
As an American, I was pretty stoked that I knew where Pocklington is when you said it. Thanks CK3 (and Google since I would have spelled it Poclington otherwise).
Omg it IS in ck3!!
Damn, I really should pitch together with some friends and order some. Though there's also "Lindisfarne Mead" which I discovered through the most excellent Northumbrian band "Arð".
What a brilliant sponsorship. Congratulations Jimmy.
Awesome dude. When the pandemic started I got way to into making mead from home. I can't get enough of the stuff. We have heaps of mead and homebrew videos on our channel. NICE WORK!
I actually work at an American establishment that sells honey and mead-we don’t make the mead though. I shall be recommending this to my bosses they’d love this.
Oh my god lemon drizzle cake with mead sounds dangerously good
I once soaked a piece of pork in a 1:3 mixture of mead and red wine before roasting it and I found that it makes for nice onion 'sauce' to use a little bit of mead to deglaze onions.
That elderflower one is *seriously* nice.
I'll be seeing Peter and the gang at Evesham Medieval Market this weekend and will be picking up several bottles of this liquid gold. I'm especially looking forward to the new Raspberry and Lemon flavour. Stuart.
Oooh, that looks delicious. I've been making mead for years (basic homebrew is easy to get a reliable stable mead after a bit of practice) but these guys are next level! It looks absolutely glorious and they all seem like a good bunch of people I'll be very happy to support.
Very interesting and enjoyable, it looks like you had a blast.
Like deployed 👍
I have made mead with ginger and hot red pepper flakes - it was my best batch.
Oooohhh once they ship internationally I'll get this as a gift for a loved one, if the shipping and import fees aren't too excessive... maybe even if the shipping and import are excessive lol
Also makes me happy to know you got paid for this sponsorship and you seem to be having a blast with the meadmakers!
Fantastic Video! Most informative and the Intermission Reenactment was a hoot. Thanks for taking us on this tour of a real Mead brewery (is that the proper term? 🤷🏻♂️😉)
I used to like the odd glass of mead but more recently found it far too sweet. I don't know if it is my taste or the mead that changed. But I guess that not adding sugars to the honey and a decent conversion of sugars to alcohol should lead to a less sweet result. I'm now very tempted. Do they supply any pubs in the Edinburgh area where I might have a taste?
Mead is essentially just fermented sugars, much like wine or cider, just that the sugars come mostly from honey. This means that the person making mead has full control over how sweet it is.. Being super sweet is a choice; quite often they've added additional honey after fermentation to make it that sweet. But you can easily make a completely dry mead that's actually very hard to tell that it's not wine. Or cider, if low ABV and flavored with apples. ANyway that's a long way of saying that if mead is sweet then that's a choice, and someone's preference. Much like with dessert wines, ice wines, etc.
This was fun to watch. My son makes mead and I have two carboys in my kitchen.
Just picked up bottle of their elderflower after an impromptu tasting session during setup for the vike fest at locko park, absolutely lovely, the traditional was exceptional too!
I'm just here to say that the choice of intermission music made my entire day.
I have 5 gallons aging in a bourbon barrel since December. Gonna be really good in a few more months.
I had no idea mead was still being made when I used to drink, now I’m sad I missed my chance to try it! Still might order a bottle for friends as it sounds really good! Great video, as always.
Oh, and bonus points for using the Intermission song from Holy Grail! 😉
Oh mead! With elderflowers! Thank you very much for this interesting and extremely mouthwatering video. I‘ll watch it a couple of times now to compensate for my currently very meadless situation and taste delicious mead vicariously.
Mead is the only alcohol I will drink. It is so good 😙👍 Looking to purchase my first homemade kit soon. My Auntie & Uncle have been making their own wine & mead for years. So good ❤
Love Nidhoggr mead. Great to see how it is made.
Now I want some mead...
Hopefully try some of this next weekend 🤤
Love this. Also love that large scale production isnt that much different than making a jug at home
darn, did not ask him about the origin and blend (or not blendet) of the honey. Was hoping for that ^^ besides, fun vid
I got strong, "I don't know what to do with my hands" vibes during the interview😅😂
Wow 😲 now I need to add this place to my places to go in Yorkshire in September
This was delightful and I want a bottle! Sadly, the shipping to Massachusetts is out of my price range (international shipping is rough, I get it), so this goes on my list for when I visit England next! It also might become holiday gifts for friends in London ❤️
Please. Where is the secret pants video??? Thank you for your time.
Being made.
I used to vend at a site in upstate NY, which was also frequented by a local meadery called Magpie Mead. I'm ashamed to confess I don't actually much like honey, so I was often force-fed all sorts of 'dry' meads and an abomination called grapefruit mead! I still don't much like mead, though I'm sure it was excellent--if you like honey. And after hours I often ended up a bit tipsy! If you calmly state you don't like mead, this will happen! Homebrewed beer, on the other hand...
Yeah.. citrus is something I stay away from too. I've recently made a mead that's very difficult to tell that it's not a full bodied, dry red wine. (Using blueberries) Also oaked it, as a lot of what we think wine tastes like comes from the oak barrels. (Used oak chips instead). It really does not taste like honey at all.
It must have smelled amazing in there. Fermenting honey. . . . ?
I’m gonna have to see if I can get this in the US anywhere!
Post results. This has made many of us thirsty ! ;)
I've made some decent mead in my kitchen before, after a few bad ones.
I've found the most important things are excellent quality honey, and patience. The mead kept improving in taste for 2 years
I've got a "let's see what kind of fermentables are in my cupboard" cherry and apple mead fermenting now, but I'm not expecting a lot from it
Lemon drizzle cake!
Mum saw the ginger one and she’s straight on the website lol
I really enjoyed this video. Hopefully you continue to do more field trips for videos!
This is amazing content. Now I want to make mead
Thanks for this video! It reminded me to check out local mead options and I found a few places to try out.
I hope they ship to Australia!
This sounds awesome! The meads I've tried locally do tend to be overly sweet. I figured mead just wasn't my drink - nice to know not everyone makes it that way!
A lot of what's sold as "mead" is just fortified wine flavoured with honey (looking at you, Lindisfarne).
Looks awesome
Thinking of making my own mead at some point! Only ever had some store bought mead, (the brewing process, was different like Peter said it is rocket fuel!) And am also gonna make some Butter beer too, cos I'm a sucker for dairy.
And also Jimmy what's the background musics name? Love me some Irish flutes.
If I wanna make mead, watch the city steading yt channel. They make mead and teach how to do it.
Brilliant!
This is awesome!
Very cool!
Just ordered a bottle of the traditional mead, now just to buy a drinking horn :)
That was great! Thanks for making us all aware of this :)
I got such a chortle out of hearing the f-bombs in this video. You're usually so careful to keep those out. LOL🤣😂 I hope that Nidhogger will be able to ship to California, one day, but our laws don't allow it, right now, as far as I know. I'd love to try the ginger mead. It combines two of my favourite flavours.
Thank you.
Okay Peter and I would get along so well!!! and I am stealing his idea for apple and rhubarb!!!!!! I am doing a strawberry and rhubarb one right now I would love to share with him when done but I am not paying shipping to the UK lol.
I couldn’t think of a more perfect sponsor for you. I’ll be sure to send this one on to my sons who regularly talk about mead.
I've never had mead. You made it look so delicious. I was drooling 🤤
This was such a cool video, I love how they make it! Also the commentary in the background 😂😂
This is so informative! Really really cool. I am keeping bees as a hobby - and I was wondering if I could make mead from my honey. I might have to reevaluate that idea - but maybe I'll still give it a try. Also a bit of nitpicking: beehives are not ~40°C but ~34.5°C.
Do it! Making mead really isn't that hard. I can also recommend the channel City Steading Brews on here, nice couple who give great tips for homebrewing and really show how easy it can be(e)
This video was fantastic! I don't drink but mead always has such a nice smell and I loved learning more about it!
"We don't recommend excessive alcohol consumption on the channel"
Do as I say not as I do, eh? 😉
I don't even drink but this was a really interesting video!
40 degrees: summer in Rio de Janeiro!
Fantastic, I love mead. Have to order it in because it's hard to find places that stock the good stuff regularly.
There's a birthday coming up, so this might be exactly what I need to get! thank you Nidhoggr Mead for being fantastic hosts :)