Mead Lovers Digest #0276

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #276, 12 March 1994 
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Mead Lover's Digest #276                                  12 March 1994 

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

Contents: 
  honey varieties (Spencer.W.Thomas@med.umich.edu) 
  Putting "That Plant" in Mead (Gregory Owen) 

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Subject: honey varieties 
From: Spencer.W.Thomas@med.umich.edu 
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 09:36:00 EST 

Something COYOTE said triggered this thought: 

A couple of friends (Dan McConnell and Ken Schramm) will be doing a 
presentation about the effect of honey and yeast on the flavor/aroma 
of mead at the AHA National Conference this summer.  They made 12 
batches of mead, using (I think) 7 varieties of honey (Clover, 
Wildflower, Fireweed, Orange blossom, Snowberry, Wild Raspberry, Star 
Thistle), all fermented with the same yeast, and 6 yeasts (YeastLab 
Dry Mead, YL Sweet Mead, Riesling, Epernay, Prise de Mousse, Tokay), 
all on clover honey (note that one batch of clover honey counts in 
both groups).  All were fermented together under identical conditions, 
and will be brought to the conference for tasting during the 
presentation. 

The write-up will be in the proceedings, but the meads won't...  I'm 
sure Dan will post something here after the fact. 

I'm eagerly awaiting the results (the meads are still aging in Dan's 
cellar).   

=S 

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Subject: Putting "That Plant" in Mead 
From: gowen@cs.tufts.edu (Gregory Owen) 
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 17:14:00 +0500 

        I've seen plenty of discussion of putting... "That Plant..." in  
beer, but none about putting it in mead.  Yes, shameful as it is, I'm 
curious whether anyone has tried a Garlic Mead.   
        Is this a ludicrous idea?  Has anyone tried it?  If so, was the 
result drinkable?  I generally brew 1-gallon batches, so I might give 
it a try sometime in the future... 

  Greg Owen  { gowen@allegro.cs.tufts.edu, gowen@xis.xerox.com } 
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow/Out of this stony 
rubbish? Son of man,/You cannot say, or guess, for you know only/A heap of  
broken images, where the sun beats,/And the dead tree gives no shelter..." 

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End of Mead Lover's Digest #276