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Mead Lovers Digest #0097
Mead Lover's Digest #97 Sun 14 March 1993
Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and Consuming
John Dilley, Digest Coordinator
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A few beginner questions (Gregory Owen)
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 04:41:56 EST
From: gowen@cs.tufts.edu (Gregory Owen)
Subject: A few beginner questions
Hi there, meaders!
I would like to try homebrewing, both mead and beer, but mead first.
I would like to ask you all for some advice on setting up:
1) The brew-supply catalog I have lists a "five gallon beer brewing
kit" with a 10 gallon primary fermenter, 5 gallon glass fermenter,
lock, syphon and blowby, hydrometer, and assorted ingredients. The
recipe I plan to follow for mead asks for 2-5 gallon carboys (from
the _wassail_ book, by Gayre and Papazian). I assume the 10 gallon
is one of those white plastic buckets. Is this acceptable? Can I
use the plastic bucket for the first stage, and the carboy for the
second? vice versa?
2) Will the beer ingredients (can of malt, dried malt, water salt,
hops and yeasts) stay well? i.e., can I take a few months to make
mead and still have the stuff be good? I'm assuming so, but am not
sure.
3) Will an ordinary cooking thermometer, like the one used for making
candy, do?
I appreciate any help you can give me.
greg
gowen@cs.tufts.edu, gowen@jade.tufts.edu
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