Mead Lovers Digest #0056

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Mead Lover's Digest #56                     Sun 13 December 1992 

 
        Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and Consuming 
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Contents: 
  About sulfate (Carlo Fusco) 

 
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:48 EST 
From: Carlo Fusco <G1400023@NICKEL.LAURENTIAN.CA> 
Subject: About sulfate 

Hello everyone, 

This is the first time asking for help from this forum, because this is the  
first mead I have brewed. My questions: 

I made a Kiwi Cranberry mead that I have some questions about. I made this  
mead in October of this year and have been aging it in a carboy [I was lead  
to believe that you had to wait 6 months before you could bottle it]. Last  
month I noticed a white fuzz growing on the top of it. At this point I was  
afraid of losing it, so I added 1 Campten tablet [I believed a still mead  
was better than no mead]. Everything was going fine until today, it was  
clearing nicely and it had a nice orange colour. That is until I tasted it,  
it has an alcohol conc. of 15% but all I could taste was sulfate.  

1) Will this taste disappear with time in the bottle? 
2) Should I wait for this taste to disappear before I bottle? 
3) Did I make a mistake in using a Campten tablet and should you never  
sulfate a mead? 
4) Will multiple rackings cause the sulfate taste to disappear? 

Thank you for your help 

Carlo Fusco 
g1400023@nickel.laurentian.ca 

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