Mead Lovers Digest #0131

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Mead Lover's Digest #131                            Sun 16 May 1993 

 
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  Newbie meader requests some basic recipies... (Mike McCabe) 

 
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 15:26:07 EDT 
From: mamccabe@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mike McCabe) 
Subject: Newbie meader requests some basic recipies... 

I've made one mead, a cherry-ginger mead after tbe ginger mead in 
Papazian's TCJoHB.  Perhaps I went overboard with the ginger, but the 
final product was kind of bitter and icky.  Though drinkable.  (That 
after ~4-5 months.) 

I'm about to head home from school, and my thought is that I'd like to 
start a couple of batches of mead to think about bottling when I 
return.  I'd like to make one (5 gal.) batch of a dry mead, and one of 
a sweet mead.  Either could be a cyser of sorts (see below) and spices 
also sound fun. 

The materials I have to work with: 
1 gal. orange blossom honey 
1 gal. wildflower honey 
an unlimited supply of apple concentrate, unpreserved, in 1/2 gallon 
containers.  (from Food Services)  I used 1/2 gallon of this to beef 
up a 5 gallon batch of cider that turned out pretty well.  The 
concentrate isn't incredibly flavorful, but I trust it to be free of 
nasties. 
some generico beer yeast nutrient 
acid blend 
lots of spices. 
Red Star champagne yeast. 

I can make a trek to the brewstore if necessary (I understand that 
Red Star has gained poor marks in the past) but would prefer not to. 

Recipes/guidance requested.  One note - I won't be around to rack 
these after two weeks from now. 

I'll tell you all how it turns out, six months from now :) 

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