How to make Tej (Ethiopian honey wine) - Start to finish

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Tej is a honey wine made in Ethiopia and Eritrea, flavored with a shrub called gesho. Tej is floral, herbal, sweet, and effervescent. Lactic acid bacteria give it a slight funk and a bit of a sourness. Our tej recipe borrows from the scientific literature to try to replicate a traditional recipe with "modern" meadmaking practices - primarily: not doing a wild ferment, definitely using yeast nutrient, and bottle-conditioning with a sweetener. We hope you enjoy this simple, no-fuss hydromel session mead as much as we do! Gesho: https://amzn.to/3HqtNLJ (link supports the channel) Subscribe to FaeWood Mead: https://www.youtube.com/c/FaeWoodMead Nutrient info: https://www.reddit.com/r/mead/wiki/process/staggered_nutrient_additions Mead Calculator: https://gotmead.com/blog/the-mead-calculator/ 0:00 Intro 4:03 Recipe 4:30 The Process 12:08 The Tasting What's your favorite way to make tej? Leaves or twigs - or both? Let us know in the comments! 👇 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KTkwma0KXlBUIg3h_AZzw/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dointhemost Website: http://dointhemost.org Discord: http://discord.dointhemost.org Insta: https://instagram.com/dointhemostok Mail us stuff PO Box 162 Oklahoma City, OK 73101 #tej #howtomakemead #homebrewing