Mead Lovers Digest #0109

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Mead Lover's Digest #109                            Fri 02 April 1993 

 
        Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and Consuming 
               John Dilley, Digest Coordinator 

 
Contents: 
  Sediment, Aging (Andrew W.J. Toler) 
  Racking Mead (Paul Ray) 

 
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Date: 1 Apr 93 09:31:43 EST 
From: Andrew.W.J.Toler@Dartmouth.EDU (Andrew W.J. Toler) 
Subject: Sediment, Aging 

What is an acceptable level of sediment at the bottom of the bottle?  Does 
mead dislike sitting on a thick bed of goopy sludge and get off-flavors, as a 
result? 
And one last thing; I am wondering what would be the best way to store my 
aging mead, what temps, what position the bottles would best be in, etc. 
Happy days, 

Andrew 

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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 18:04:14 -0800 
From: Paul Ray <paulr@delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu> 
Subject: Racking Mead 

 
Hi,  

I was wondering what people's feelings were on racking mead.  I am 
brewing my first mead (Chief Niwot's Mead from The New Joy of Hombrew). 
It is basically a 5-gallon, plain honey mead with 13lbs of honey. 
It has been fermenting happily for two weeks now and the airlock is  
still bubbling.  I only have one glass carboy and the mead is in it. 
So, my question is: Should I rack the mead now or sometime before bottling? 
Or, should I just do it like beer and let it settle and then rack into 
my priming container?  In order to rack, I would have to sterilize my 
priming bucket, siphon the mead into it, then clean and sterilize the 
carboy and re-siphon from the priming bucket into the carboy.  Does the 
risk of contamination from this procedure outweigh the benefits of racking? 
What are the benefits of racking? 

Thanks for your help, 

- -- Paul 

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