Mead Lovers Digest #0245

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Mead Lover's Digest #245                                  15 December 1993 

            Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming 
                      Dick Dunn, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  Missing Mead Digest #87 (Joyce Miller) 
  Electronic Mead Recipe Book (Joyce Miller) 
  How much sugar do I prime with? (Steve Kenshulo) 

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Subject: Missing Mead Digest #87 
From: jmiller@genome.wi.mit.edu (Joyce Miller) 
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 15:52:28 -0500 

The archives at Sierra are missing Mead Lover's Digest #87, from about 
2/9/93.  Does anyone out there have a copy to donate to them, so that it 
would be available to the rest of us? 

-- Joyce 

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Subject: Electronic Mead Recipe Book 
From: jmiller@genome.wi.mit.edu (Joyce Miller) 
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 16:00:22 -0500 

Meaders -- 

I've managed to finally go through all of the past issues of the Mead 
Digest (except for #87, which is missing from sierra.stanford.edu), and 
I've made up a recipe book.  I copied out recipes that people had posted, 
and put them into a sort of "Cat's Meow"-type format.  They took some 
cutting and pasting to get them into the 
"Title-Source-Ingredients-Procedure-Comments-Specifics" format, but I did 
my best to keep much of what had been posted.  I only took recipes that had 
been tried out, and where the poster had thought it was drinkable or 
better.  I did this because the common complaint I've heard about The Cat's 
Meow is that untried or planned recipes are included with tried-and-true 
recipes, with no way for the reader to differentiate between the two.  This 
means that I only pulled out 38 recipes, but we could just put out a 
general call, and I'm sure it would increase quite a bit. 

So, is there interest in this?  Do people want this to be publicly 
available?  And if so, what should it be called?  (Something better than 
"The Cat's Meow," hopefully). 

-- Joyce 
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Joyce Miller                                   jmiller@genome.wi.mit.edu 
Whitehead Institute / M.I.T. Canter for Genome Research 
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Subject: How much sugar do I prime with? 
From: steve_kenshulo@csufresno.edu (Steve Kenshulo) 
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 08:38:06 -0800 (PST) 

This week I want to bottle the mead that has been sitting for 5 
months. I am going to bottle it in champagne bottles with wired down 
stoppers. I would like it to be much more carbonated than my beers 
are. How much sugar can I use at bottleing time? (With 5 gallons) Will 
1.5 cups produce as much fizzle as a champagne? Or will it blow up my 
bottles? I usually use 3/4 of a cup priming suger in my beers. 

Thanks alot, 
Steve Kenshalo 
skenshul@csufresno.edu 

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