id presume in over 300 vids they fucked up somewhere.
They fuck up a lot:
-Stirring black mold into brew.
-Not supplying nutrition to yeast, resulting in a stressed fermentation that produces fusels and other off-flavors. Their batches stall all the time from lack of nutrition.
-Not stabilizing before backsweetening, which risks bottle bombs.
-Teaching that pasteurization is a reliable form of stabilization, which it isn't, and tends to lead to surprise refermentation after weeks or months.
-Telling people that a handful of raisins is yeast nutrient.
-Recommending bread yeast for brewing, ensuring a shit result.
-Deciding to rehydrate his yeast (once he finally started rehydrating) with Fermaid O over GoFerm because he thinks it's "more natural" even though it doesn't promote healthy fermentation initiation.
Much of their teaching is outdated from when there wasn't a lot of science backing up brewing practices. Many of their recipes sound like prison toilet wine. Many people who start their brewing career listening to CSB end up with disappointing results and have to come to the wider mead community for education on what they learned wrong.
Any time their teachings have been shown to be wrong, they'll get indignant and argue to death that evidence-based best practice is wrong and that they're right. They delete comments and block critics on YouTube and social media.
Besides that, they've always creeped me out like the weird autistic couple that does pony play at fetish conventions. She probably pegs him.
They really did that? thats fucking nuts. When did they do that?
was this the video you're referencing regarding stirring it in or is there another video where they recommend that and how right/wrong are they about the mold coming back after being stirred in?
They did it in two different videos, but took both down after months of backlash. Guess they got tired of deleting comments telling them how dangerous it is to consume mead with fuzzy black mold in it. This was not shiny silver Brett rafts; it was hairy and black. Maybe he learned something since then, but their damage is done, and everyone in the community gets tired of having to correct bad information that some new brewer got from their videos even in current year.
Reddit troons hate them because "he always talks over the poor woman and won't let her speak". I don't care. They just suck at brewing education.
