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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #757, 29 August 1999
From: mead-request@talisman.com
Mead Lover's Digest #757 29 August 1999
Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
St. Bartholomew ("Jerry Sadowski")
Sugar Content in Fruit (Dan McFeeley)
Sage honey ("Thaddaeus A. Vick")
Re: Raspberry (Warren Place)
RE: Mead Lover's Digest #756, 24 August 1999 ("Stevenson, Randall")
Two stuck mead batches ("Brown, Thomson")
AHA Club Only Contest (Ken Schramm)
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Subject: St. Bartholomew
From: "Jerry Sadowski" <JSadow1@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:15:14 -0500
Today, August 24, is the feast of St. Bartholomew, patron saint of
mead. Everyone should raise their cups and toast him. Cheers.
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Subject: Sugar Content in Fruit
From: Dan McFeeley <mcfeeley@keynet.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:49:59 -0500
I ran across the chart below listing type of juice and its brix while
web browsing and thought it may be helpful to MLD readers.
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Dan McFeeley
mcfeeley@keynet.net
JUICE TYPE BRIX
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Acerola 6.0
Apple 11.5
Apricot 11.7
Banana 22.0
Blackberry 10.0
Blueberry 10.0
Boysenberry 10.0
Cantaloupe 9.5
Carambola 7.8
Carrot 8.0
Casaba Melon 7.5
Cashew 12.0
Celery 3.1
Cherry, dark sweet 20.0
Cherry, Montmorency 14.0
Crabapple 15.4
Cranberry 7.5
Currant, black 11.0
Currant, red 10.5
Date 18.5
Dewberry 10.0
Elderberry 11.0
Fig 18.2
Gooseberry 8.3
Grape, concord 16.0
Grapefruit 10.0
Guanabana 16.0
Guava 7.7
Honeydew Melon 9.6
Kiwi 15.4
Lemon 4.5
Lime 4.5
Loganberry 10.5
Mango 13.0
Nectarine 11.8
Orange 11.8
Papaya 11.5
Passionfruit 14.0
Peach 10.5
Pear 12.0
Pineapple 12.8
Plum 14.3
Pomegranate 16.0
Prune 18.0
Quince 13.3
Raspberry, black 11.1
Raspberry, red 9.2
Rhubarb 5.7
Strawberry 8.0
Tangerine 11.8
Tomato 5.0
Watermelon 7.8
Youngberry 10.0
>From code of Federal Register, SEC. 21CFR Part 101.80. First published
January 6, 1993, Federal Register, vol. 58, #8.
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Subject: Sage honey
From: "Thaddaeus A. Vick" <thaddaeusv@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:10:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Sage honey
> From: k.g.mclean@cqu.edu.au (Kevin Mc Lean)
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:57:37 +1000 (EST)
>
> find sage in honey, but several medical sources concerning sage mention
> it as an abortifacient (especially in oil form). Consequently, I
> wouldn't give the mead to anyone who might be pregnant (wierd I know,
> but...).
Actually, having seen at first hand the effects of Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome, I wouldn't offer any mead, regardless of what kind of honey
I used, to a pregnant woman.
ObMead: The lemon-clove mead I posted about a few months ago has
definitely stopped, but is very hazy. Since I boiled the meat and zest
of the lemons in the must, I expect this is a pectin haze. I bought some
pectic enzyme to put in it, but I didn't get around to it before leaving
for college and I probably won't until Christmas break. It's sitting
in a five-gallon carboy in the basement. Will resting so long have any
effect on the clarity, or the action of the enzyme once it is added?
How long does it usually take for a mead to clear once the enzyme is
added? I would like to bottle it when I'm home for Christmas so that I
can take it to Gulf Wars (the event it was named for) in March.
===
Thaddaeus A. Vick, Linguist to the Masses Email: ThaddaeusV@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2605 ICQ: 21574495
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
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Subject: Re: Raspberry
From: Warren Place <wrp2@axe.humboldt.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:53:52 -0700 (PDT)
Bill Pierce asked:
My recipe is for 12 lbs. of clover honey in 5 gallons, fermented with
Wyeast Dry Mead yeast. When I rack to secondary I add six pounds of
raspberry puree and then another 4 oz. of natural raspberry flavoring just
before bottling.
Should I be adding more raspberry puree (9 lbs., 12, even 15)?
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I just bottled a raspberry blonde today (I know, most people use
strawberry) using raspberry flavoring. The flavor was not as strong as
the aroma, but strong enough for my tastes. Many of the flavoring bottles
suggest using 4 oz. per 5 gal. batch but I find that with many flavoring
this amount can be doubled without any harm. Try adding more flavoring at
bottling time and you should get all the raspberry flavor you need.
Warren Place
wrp2@axe.humboldt.edu
www.humboldt.edu/~wrp2
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Subject: RE: Mead Lover's Digest #756, 24 August 1999
From: "Stevenson, Randall" <rstevenson@LDI.STATE.LA.US>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:03:54 -0500
Larry Sieting asked about adding honey to five gallons of apple cider that
are already fermenting well.
I have not had good experiences with adding additional fermentables to a
batch that had already begun fermenting (with the exception of some Hersey's
chocolate syrup added to a dark ale and of course priming sugars). In order
to experiment you may want to consider blending finished products or at
least limit the potential loss of cider by using a one gallon test run. To
test different yeasts, I frequently used one gallon jugs. (Now I can make
an educated guess at which yeast might work.) The result was a lot more
work, but there were some batches that would have been virtually lost had I
tossed -- say a Montrachet -- yeast in the full 5 gallons of mead liquor.
To restate this briefly, I would suggest either blending finished products
or testing smaller quantities to prevent the loss of a "good" batch of cider
for the sake of trying something.
Wassail,
Randall
"Planning the substitution of error for chaos."
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Subject: Two stuck mead batches
From: "Brown, Thomson" <umbrow24@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:43:38 -0500
I am new to mead making and have just started two, 1-gallon batches
starting from the same source honey (clover/canola), which I bought from
a local farm in Winnipeg Manitoba. The first gallon, I started 2 weeks
ago SG: 1.084 Acid. .6% - it is a very basic recipe, only
significant additives were 1/4 tsp tannin, and 3/4 tsp energizer, 4 tsp
acid blende. The other recipe is a methlglyn SG: 1.105 Acid .5%, with
additives consisting of 3/4 tsp energizer, 3 tsp acid blende, cloves,
ginger, all-spice, lemon. Both batches were pasteurized for 2 hrs (the
first one, I accidentally boiled), and allowed to cool 24 hours before
the yeast was pitched.
The first batch was pitched with a dry Lalvin EC-1118 wine yeast. Over
the next couple of days very minor fermentation procedded and totally
stopped after 4 days at a mysterious SG of 1.086 ???(higher than
original?) I capped it, and put it in the fridge for a few days, while
I prepared the next batch and a yeast starter, of Lalvin K1-V1116 in
orange/apple/grape juice. 800 ml of vigourously fermenting starter was
produced with this yeast, which was then pitched equally into the two
batches at room temperature. Fermentation has stopped again after 5
days, the first gallon at SG= 1.080 the second at SG= 1.100.
Does anyone know why they have stuck, and what I can do about it?? A
local brew store owner noted that a couple other people in the area have
had problems with 'sticky' meads. Does it have anything to do with the
type of honey?
Also, what are ideal ranges for initial SG and acid levels in meads?
Jarrod Brown
Winnipeg Manitoba
umbrow24@cc.umanitoba.ca
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Subject: AHA Club Only Contest
From: Ken Schramm <Ken.Schramm@oakland.k12.mi.us>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:42:41 -0400
It is with regret that I am postponing this evening's (Friday, August 27)
scheduled judging of the AHA COC "It's a mead mead mead mead world!"
judging. We were not able to gain commitments from a large enough pool of
qualified judges, and rather that compromise the results, I have elected to
postpone the judging until early September, when a session with Detroit/Ann
Arbor's best judges can be assembled. This will also serve to provide rest
time for at least two meads which were shipped on time but did not make it
to my home until yesterday. I will contact Paul Gatza, and post the
results as quickly as possible to the fora he deems appropriate.
If you have any questions, please contact me at this address. My home
phone is 248 816-1592, if you have questions about your entry.
Again, my apologies,
Ken Schramm
Ann Arbor Brewers Guild.
Troy, Michigan
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End of Mead Lover's Digest #757
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