Mead Lovers Digest #0159

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Mead Lover's Digest #159                            Fri 25 June 1993 

 
        Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and Consuming 
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  Rat ("Larry Lynch-Freshner") 

 
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Date: 24 Jun 1993 10:46:19 -0800 
From: "Larry Lynch-Freshner" <Larry_Lynch-Freshner@taligent.com> 
Subject: Rat 

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 In Reply To:    Rat 
Rat writes: 
4 weeks ago I made up a batch of wildflower honey mead, I used 18 pounds 
of>honey in a 5 gallon batch, I also used yeast food, it is now down to 1.042 
and still fermenting, it smells wonderful, it started out at about 1.126 any 
ideas as to how much lower the SG will get? I am useing champain yeast so that 
I will get the most out of the sugars in the honey, but I want it to be a 
still 
mead when I am finnished with it. will I need to add some camden tabs to this? 

Rat - I wouldn't worry about it.  With that much honey, the yeast will die of 
alcohol poisoning at around 1.025 - 1.030.  So you can't have a sparkling mead 
(unless you bottle about now) because any yeast you add will die off also.  I 
hope you wanted a _sweet_ still mead! 

Larry L-F 

 

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