SKYRIM: I Brewed DRAGON'S BREATH Mead! (and RUINED a Marriage...) | Quench Quest Recipes

"...bring me the bottle of Dragon's Breath Mead. It's his favorite..." - Olda, purportedly the most spiteful shrew in all of Skyrim with a chunk of ice where her heart ought to be (according to her husband Horgeir)

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Welcome to Four Shields Tavern in Dragon Bridge, just south of Solitude in Haafingar Hold! The most imperial hold in all of Skyrim, Varnius Junius returns to this tavern after petitioning Jarl Elisif and Falk Firebeard about the strange occurances at Wolfskull Cave (spoiler alert: Potema the Wolf Queen and former-almost-Empress is trying to return from the dead). The town lumberjack Horgeir, is apparently also the town drunk due to his contentious relationship with his wife Olda (who isn't exactly amicable and apparently is having an affair that everyone except her husband knows about, according to the innkeeper Faida).

Horgeir has a secret stash of ale, wine and mead just outside of town, with a one-of-a-kind bottle called Dragon's Breath Mead that he is particularly fond of and his wife is very interested in obtaining. Why she wants to keep this particular bottle is unclear, but the name is cool enough that I was inspired to take my own pass at brewing it myself. Like many of the meads in Skyrim, there are no in-game recipes for it or even flavor descriptors beyond the name, and it didn't make the cut for the Elder Scrolls Cookbook so I've set out to develop a recipe for it that I think gives Vilod's Mead with Juniper Berries a run for its money.

I was inspired by ‪@MethodtotheMeadness‬'s Dragon's Breath Mead recipe that incorporates a blend of orange blossom and purple star thistle honeys and ‪@TastingHistory‬'s recent videos on "long pepper," a staple of medieval cuisine, but also incorporated my own twist with smoked Huajillo honey (not to be confused with Guajillo - they're different plants!). I also wanted a bit of florality for flavor and color (inspired by the nearby Red Mountain Flowers that look more orange imo), so I incorporated rubbed elderflowers for flavor and orange calendula for color and a mild chamomile-esque influence. Lastly, I chose a more appropriate yeast this time around called Kveik (which is also just the Norwegian word for yeast) - it was relatively recently rediscovered in ancient Nordic farmhouses and is all around a better choice for both lore accuracy and flavor to my palate.

The question of "which" dragon's breath it smells like came up as I was brewing - we had one mild scare in the primary fermentation where it almost became Durnehviir's rotten undead dragon breath in the Soul Cairn, but by the end I think everyone would agree that it tastes more akin to Paarthurnax's breath after he just finished meditating on the Word of Power "Yol".

This was a fun video; see you soon for our first foray into Westeros in celebration of House of the Dragon and the messed-up family that is the Targaryens!

Chapters
0:00 - Setup & Cookbook Mead Overview
2:09 - Dragon's Bridge & Dragon's Breath Mead Quest
4:52 - Replicating Dragon's Breath Mead
11:51 - Tasting Dragon's Breath Mead
15:46 - Quest Outcomes?
17:23 - Renfaire Chat and Up Next (Westeros)!

Music Credits
Jeremy Soule - Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind Soundtracks
https://bethesda.net/en/article/3XrnH...
Bethesda Songs in Order of Appearance:
Sovngarde - Caprice - Dragonborn - The Bannered Mare - Night Without Stars - Out of the Cold - A Winter's Tale - Harvest Dawn

Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod | https://incompetech.com/
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