Mead Lovers Digest #0255

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #255, 13 January 1994 
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Mead Lover's Digest #255                                  13 January 1994 

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

Contents: 
  Inspiration? (Ralph Snel) 
  commercial meaderies?, alt nutrients?, Irish moss?, fruit sanitizing? (Jim Sim 
s) 
  Kvass/ This Digest (Philip Cutone) 
  honey bee list? (Jim Sims) 

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Subject: Inspiration? 
From: Ralph Snel <ralph@astro.lu.se> 
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 9:06:03 MET 

Hello, 

I have a 'problem': I have a 12 gallon carboy, about 30-40 pounds 
of honey, 10 pounds of raisins, a rather large selection of herbs 
and spices, all the time in the world (when it comes to making mead), 
a wonderful cellar at very constant temperature (due to a ground 
water level that is a tad too high), and unfortunately no really 
smashing mead recipes in mind. 
Any suggestions? I like slightly sweet, non-carbonated meads best. 

Ralph 
ralph@astro.lu.se 

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Subject: commercial meaderies?, alt nutrients?, Irish moss?, fruit sanitizing? 
From: sims@pdesds1.scra.org (Jim Sims) 
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 08:13:39 EST 

 Does anyone know of commercial meaderies in the United States? 

 I've made a 1/2 dozen or so batches of mead, and am wondering what 
 other folks use for yeast nutrient and clarifying. I've been using the 
 ~standard "yeast nutrient" from the local homebrew shop. Is there a 
 better/cheaper//etc alternative? 

 I've been using Irish moss in the last few minutes of the boil (of 
 the non-honey or fruit) ingredients. I left it out a coupla times, 
 but the mead took a long time to clear. On one of those times, i 
 mixed up some warm water and gelatin and added that to the carboy. It 
 cleared very well over the nex coupla daze. What are other folks 
 using? 

 For the 3 or 4 partial batches i've experimented with fruit (raspberry, 
 blueberry, blackberry, plum), i've frozen the fruit first, then 
 sanitized by a quick soak in Sodium Metabisulphite(sp?)  (winemaking 
 campden tablets). this seemed to work okay (no infections), but i 
 wonder waht if any off flavor this might introduce. The stuff smells 
 nasty. It also turns those nice hard frozen fruits into a mushy 
 mess... 

 tia, 
jim 

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Subject: Kvass/ This Digest 
From: pec@tmc.astm.cmri.cmu.edu (Philip Cutone) 
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 09:25:06 -0500 

Well, since that recipe looked very similar to what i guessed, and it 
had no aging time required, i think i'll try my glop tonight....  If anyone is 
interested, i'll let you know how it turned out. 

On a different note: 
I use rmail (gnu-emacs) to read this digest and it has a functioncalled 
undigestify message which works fine for every other digest i read. (it splits 
the message up into their individual messages)  Anyway, it's never worked 
for mead digest, so today i decided to look at the cause. 

One thing   after the initial captions there is a stream of hyphens (-) 

emacs (rmail) looks for a longer string, like a whole line 
(from lambic digest (which works)) 
 ------------------(begin quote)---------------- 
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 -----------------(end quote)------------------- 

and at the end, there is a trailer after the end of digest message 
(again from lambic digest) 
 ------------------(begin quote)---------------- 
End of Lambic Digest 
************************ 
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 -----------------(end quote)------------------- 

anyway... is there a standard which we are not going by? (as far as 
the format of the digest) 

I can write the code to append it to my message if no one else is 
interested in this being changed, but it would be nice to folow the 
standard if there is one. 

 
Thanks! 
philip 

bibunt centum, bibunt mille! 

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Subject: honey bee list? 
From: sims@pdesds1.scra.org (Jim Sims) 
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 13:16:37 EST 

tia, 
jim 
  

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