Does Coconut Water Work in Mead?
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- Today I'm looking to answer the question... does coconut water work in mead? I've seen lots of people ask this question and I wanted to put it to the test. I do know that there are known coconut water recipes out there and I wanted to see what it does for myself. Special thanks to my friends Mandi (@FaewoodMead ), Tony & Kyle for helping me with the tasting. They all taste this brew completely blind so it was definitely an exercise in trust!
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0:00 Introduction
0:12 The Test
0:38 The Recipe
0:50 Making the Mead
2:02 The Test with Friends
2:46 The Final Tasting
11:00 The Reveal
16:15 Wrapping Up
I made a coconut mango mead using coconut water, coconut flakes (don’t use, I lost a lot of volume) and frozen mango. And a little coconut extract.
I admire the way you use your platform for what some would call pettiness lol
what?
@bewtnewt, he's referring to the fact that this is a response video to someone telling MMM to use coconut water to achieve a coconut flavor in a mead.
It's a well constructed video imo.
I 2X Pot distilled Coconut water to make a Coconut brandy and aged it in a medium toasted French oak barrel for four years. It is a wonderful brandy and the distillation process took away all of the salty character. The final solution is better than the first fermentation in this case!
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Really Appreciate Your Video , Thanks ! 🐯🤠
I had some Apple 🍎🍏 Pie 🥧 Moonshine . The First Taste was Apple Pie Moonshine , But , the Second Taste was All Coconut 🥥 . IT had No Coconut 🥥 in it . Didn't taste Coconut the Rest of the Night . But the Second Taste was Strong Coconut Flavor . That's Always been a Mystery to Me . 🐯🤠
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Hooray for this! I googled whether or not I could use coconut water for mead on Saturday, 24 Feb. I was led to another brewing channel I really enjoy & find useful. They had made some, and the video was similar to yours in that they made it, tested it, aged it & then sampled it several months later. I just received in the mail yesterday the yeast they used for their recipe. I'm going to compare their recipe to yours & mix mine up this weekend. 🎉
Also, I received my Man Made Mead glass yesterday! I adore it! And the surprise was an amazing one! What a lovely package altogether! Lots of exclamation marks. 😊
Thank you for being here and sharing all your ideas, recipes & knowledge. & thanks to your friends for pitching in to help on this one. What a fun experiment!
I heard fermenting coconut can be toxic to drink? ayyyyyyeeeee 👍👍
Coconut meat and coconut milk contain coconut oil, which can go rancid, but coconut water is oil free and fine to ferment with.
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Everyone knows that if you want a true fresh coconut flavor you need to put a whole unbroken coconut in primary, and a coconut machete in secondary.
Great experiment by the way! Thank you
Thanks man, you have great videos. I've found a lot of tips for mead making, and this week started my 3rd batch: strawberry&vanilla. Going to do this coconut water mead also with vanilla on summer. Have you tried these unique berries what we have in nordics, like cloudberry, gooseberry and rowanberry - I've tasted home made wine with these and they are really good. Going to try to put them with honey in the future. Keep up the good work 💪
my attempts at coconut water produced a woody flavor. it was one gallon so never aged. maybe adding roasted coconut to get flavor
I have a similar batch going right now but im going to add smoked coconut in secondary
To remedy the "forgot about the tasting month to month" if you ever do this in the future, just start a group chat at the beginning and schedule monthly texts that remind participants to test and respond. It frontloads a lot of the upkeep of the experiment near the beginning when you're more involved in the execution of it.
Doing 10% of the work monthly is much harder than doing 50% of the work upfront and 1% monthly.
You’ll be shocked to hear that I did send reminders and it still wasn’t always done haha
@@ManMadeMead Well if you need more active testing, I know a guy!
Done that two years ago. Tasted a bit salty but not as salty as with chees whey. Coco was bearly sensable. I would describe it as interesting thing to taste, but not as everyday drink.
I think of coconut water as a mouthfeel-improving agent rather than a flavoring agent. I've used coconut water twice in homebrew, mainly for the textural "oilyness" your friend described. I used it in a root beer flavored mead because I wanted something that had a similar mouthfeel to a cream soda. I used it in a maple syrup wine to help balance the astringency. For both those projects I would say it worked as I intended. It improved the mouthfeel without noticeably impacting the flavor.
I almost used coconut water in my mead... Thankfully I saw this video first, and have decided to not go in that direction. However, do you have any thoughts on coconut milk?
I would guess the milk side wouldn’t do well with the alcohol! I haven’t tried it though
Hmmmm interesting...
I've done it before and put in some vanilla and coconut chunks. Everyone really liked it. Then I tried the same thing and added berries and it smelled like puke. Not doing that again. I did use half coconut water and half pomegranate juice with some whole blackberries and lemons and it was maybe the best thing I've ever made.
So this was an fu vid to tell someone your right and they are wrong
The best way to prove someone else was wrong.
Was on base at beloved 29 palms our bay had a regular shake down, gsgt found & hauled my 4 handles of mead out of the barracks. He marches me to the lot and beat me like i was a worm at mcrd. Days turned into weeks then a month and by then i stopped getting ready for that slash in rank/pay then be steam rolled off base. Idk what made gunny let me off but thank baby jesus .
CocoVita has almost no flavor to begin with. If you want to test coconut flavor you should have used young coconut water. Depending on local prices it may be better cheaper to buy actual young coconuts to drain and test vs bottled.
Yeah I've tried a few brands of bottled coconut water and it was a far cry from the fresh stuff.
Agreed! Nothing taste better than straight from the coconut!
Tropically brewing where you at??
I would be ask that you do this with natural coconut water straight from the coconut. I have not met a boxed or packaged coconut water that taste anything like unprocessed coconut water. You short stopped your own experiment in my opinion. Processed coconut water tastes terrible in comparison.
I hear what you’re saying… I do think most people only have access to pre packaged coconut water. I live in Oklahoma and it’s safe to say we have little to no coconuts 😂
You’re right that coconut water doesn’t taste a lot like coconut. I imagine you’d have to use coconut extract to get the essence since the flesh is so oily.
This was a fun one