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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1272, 14 July 2006
From: mead-request@talisman.com
Mead Lover's Digest #1272 14 July 2006
Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
RE: Heather Honey ("Matthew Ransom")
Mead Tasting (Edward Martin)
Polish Mead ("Paul Shouse")
Re: Rhodomel (Vicky Rowe)
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Subject: RE: Heather Honey
From: "Matthew Ransom" <talonsgrip@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:02:54 -0500
Here are some resources I found on the web for heather honey:
Littleover Apiaries - The UK's only producer of ACTIVE HONEY !
83 Friar Gate
Derby DE1 1FL
Tel: 01332 775882
VAT Number: 85262028 -
Email: enquiries@littleoverapiaries.com
Web address: http://www.littleoverapiaries.com/heatherhoney.htm
Heather-Hills: Scottish Heather Honey 340g 12 oz Beehive Jar ?2.55
Bridge of Cally
Blairgowrie
Perthshire PH10 7JG
Scotland
http://www.heather-hills.com/
Sales and Marketing Executive ? MarkNoonan
tel/fax +44(0)131 553 6544
email mark@heather-hills.com
Peak Bees, The Old Manse, Great Hucklow, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17
8RF UK
tel: 01298 871262 fax:01298 872916
email: info@peakbees.co.uk
Sells Heather Comb Honey (August)
The Honey Doctor
http://www.thehoneydoctor.com/acatalog/UKHONEY.html
sells Exmoor Heather Honey, 340g - Price: ?4.95 / ?6.93
Hope this helps :)
Matthew in East Texas
> From: Vuarra <vuarra@yahoo.ca>
>
> >From wence did you get Heather honey?
>
> >From Heather, of course.
>
> (Sorry.... I had to say it, and I'm sure that most of
> you thought it, too :))
>
> Vuarra
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Subject: Mead Tasting
From: Edward Martin <kitkatnedrat@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
Hi All,
I am from the metro Detroit area and am looking for people to schedule
a mead tasting with. I have 5 great batches and would like to find some
friends to share it with. Please respond to edwardmartin007@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Edward martin
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Subject: Polish Mead
From: "Paul Shouse" <paul_shouse@kmug.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:39:10 +0900
I just recently had a taste of some Polish mead sold under the name Stowianski.
Does anyone have any idea of what their recipe is? It tasted like old oak and
raisins to me; very much sherry-like, hardly any honey flavor at all.
- -Paul Shouse
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Subject: Re: Rhodomel
From: Vicky Rowe <rcci@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:40:27 -0400
>> I made a rose petal rhodomel, and it turned out nicely. The recipe is here:
>> http://www.gotmead.com/component/option,com_pccookbook/page,viewrecipe/cat_id
,5/recipe_id,24/
>>
>
> Try http://tinyurl.com/lss9j
>
Sorry. Typing fast, forgot.
> First question: You left it in the primary from 12/9 to 5/27? Why?
> That's 6 months and 18 days? No wonder it was dry!
>
Time problems. I'm fiendishly busy between running my web design
business, maintaining Gotmead.com and doing all the parenting things
since my hubbie travels, so my meads often get left in the primary
longer than normal. In this mead, though, it went dry because I didn't
put enough honey in the primary, not because it got left to sit. Next
time I'll use more honey, or a yeast that won't go as high.
> Next question: Why did you use Blackberry honey for a Rose Mead?
> I have never tasted Blackberry honey. Does it have
>
Blackberry honey was what I had at the time. I don't have that much cash
to purchase every type I need, and that was what was handy at the time.
I purchased this from the Bee Folks in Maryland. It is a medium honey,
with a hint of blackberry flavor. The next batch will likely have
blueberry honey backing it.
>> If I do it again, I'm going to use a less aggressive yeast,
>> and more honey, since I wanted this to be sweet.
>>
>
> Which yeast would you use?
>
Haven't decided yet. Definitely a Lalvin yeast, but I'm still mulling on
*which* would work best for this.
>
>> By and all, it was probably second only to my heather mead
>> in popularity with my friends.
>>
>
> >From wence did you get Heather honey?
>
Didn't. I got a garbage bag full of heather flowers from my
herbmistress, and used some acacia honey I got from a honey provider
near my folks' place in Michigan. The recipe is here:
http://tinyurl.com/gaulc.
- --
Wassail,
Vicky Rowe
Gotmead.com
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