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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #421, 26 July 1995
From: mead-request@talisman.com
Mead Lover's Digest #421 26 July 1995
Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
Note from janitor: If articles bounced, just re-send (Dick Dunn)
Re: restarting a stuck fermentation -- update (Dieter Dworkin Muller)
strawberries & brewers yeast (Joe Uknalis)
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Subject: Note from janitor: If articles bounced, just re-send
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Date: 23 Jul 95 13:19:06 MDT (Sun)
There was apparently a period of a few days during which articles sent to
the digest may have bounced with a complaint of being unable to send to
mead%talisman.com (the % being the indicator that you were caught by the
problem). If this happened to you, just resubmit your article to the
normal address (mead@talisman.com).
Sorry for the burp.
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Subject: Re: restarting a stuck fermentation -- update
From: Dieter Dworkin Muller <dworkin@village.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 22:41:08 -0600
I recently wrote:
: So, we went ahead and bubbled seven liters of oxygen through each of
: the five gallon carboys (well, two fives and one 4 3/4, now). I'll
: send out another update in a week or two, once I know whether or not
: the yeast will be waking back up.
:
: One other thing we did was add about a teaspoon of yeast nutrient to
: each carboy. Couldn't hurt, and will probably help.
And, after a few days, the results are in. All three carboys are
blowing off gas again. The straight mead (honey&water) is doing a
glub every forty five seconds or so, the blueberry (honey, water, and
blueberry extract) is going about half that, at around ninety
seconds/glub. The third, which was made from pure wildflower (rather
than the common `wildflower' which is significantly diluted with
clover honey), has all the signs of having started up again, but I
didn't see it glub once in five minutes. By signs, I mean that the
part that needs to fill with gas before it can glub is indeed full of
gas, not water as it was a few days ago.
I'm probably going to try pitching a little more yeast nutrient into
the wildflower this weekend. This has the advantage of helping remove
the convolution of changing two variables at once -- oxygen and
nutrient, so I can't complain too much.
Dworkin
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Subject: strawberries & brewers yeast
From: Joe Uknalis <juknalis@arserrc.gov>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
Hi folks-
anyone ever made a strawberry mead? Any advice?
I feed my cats "brewers yeast" (debittered) occasionally, would this be a good
substitue for wine yeast nutrient (which is reported to leave a metallic
taste)?
Are what rate per gallon?
thanks
Joe
juknalis@arserrc.gov
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