Mead Lovers Digest #1350

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1350, 13 November 2007 
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Mead Lover's Digest #1350                                  13 November 2007 

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

Contents: 
  RE: Mead Lover's Digest #1349, 6 November 2007 ("Sam Johnson") 
  Strawberry Port (PHREDLESS@aol.com) 
  Re:   Alternative to yeast aeration (Danaan Alwyn) 
  Re: Alternative to yeast aeration -- Olive oil! (Devon Miller) 

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Subject: RE: Mead Lover's Digest #1349, 6 November 2007 
From: "Sam Johnson" <sjohnson@graytrout.com> 
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:35:59 -0500 

Does anyone have an easy apple juice based mead recipe? 

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Subject: Strawberry Port 
From: PHREDLESS@aol.com 
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:10:43 EST 

Howdy all! 
About 9 or 10 years ago I posted a recipe for a Strawberry Tawny  port.  It 
involved, brown sugar, I think 25 pounds of strawberries and  possibly a small 
amount of honey.  I made two batches of it, but because  you had to feed the 
sugar and strawberries to the yeast, I just didn't bother  when my work 
schedule got busier.  Now, after a move, I go to look for my  recipes, which 
I know I 
packed, and find that box gone.  At least the books  are replaceable, and I 
know most of my other recipes, but, I was going to make a  batch of the 
Strawberry.  Did anybody ever take down that posting?  I  couldn't find it 
in the 
archives of the two places I have posted. 
Thanks 
Doug Thomas 

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Subject: Re:   Alternative to yeast aeration 
From: Danaan Alwyn <danaan_alwyn@yahoo.com> 
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:59:48 -0800 (PST) 

I don't know much about mead (yet!), but I can do basic math.  If the goal 
is to measure out 0.074 ml oil for 5 gal mead then: 

  1 tsp <> 5 ml 
  1 cup <> 239 ml 

  Add one tsp oil to one cup water, get 244 ml with a concentration of 
5/244 (0.0205) ml oil per ml mix. 

  3-1/2 ml mix will have about 0.07 ml oil.  That's about 3/4 tsp of mix. 

  Caveat---oil and water don't mix, unless you emulsify.  Stir the bejeezes 
out of it and then eyeball 3/4 tsp and you should be very close. 

  < Begin quote  > 
..... If you add a 
normal Wyeast smack pack (they claim 100 billion cells) to five gallons 
you???ll need .0074ml of olive oil.  ... 
< End quote > 

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Subject: Re: Alternative to yeast aeration -- Olive oil! 
From: Devon Miller <devon.miller2@verizon.net> 
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:21:29 -0500 

Was there any mention of how large a volume they were fermenting? 4500L 
seems like an awful lot of yeast. 

I generally pitch (50-200 ml) for a 5g batch, if I scale that up to 4500L, 
the batch scales to something in the 30K-120K gallons. That's 1000-4000 
barrels. 

Even assuming a commercial brewery pitched at rate of 1L/5g that still 
comes to a 700+ barrel batch. 

As for how to go about diluting olive oil...  I would suggest mixing a 
drop of oil with a teaspoon of DME to make a paste. (Think making bread 
dough.) It needs to ba a homogenous mixture for this to work. Then, assuming 
0.05ml per drop, dividing the paste in half will yield 0.025ml per half, 
dividing in quarters will yield 0.0125ml per quarter, etc. 

This will let you add a controlled amount to your brew pot. Since the 
boiling point of olive oil is 500+F, it should not be a problem adding it 
at the start of the boil. 

Devon 

>For the volume of wort we normally ferment, we would pitch 
>about 4500L of yeast, and to that we would add around 300mL 
>of olive oil. To translate that into a 5 gallon size, you would 
>need to measure about 0.0000833mL of olive oil. For any 
>practical purpose, that is much too small an amount to 
>accurately measure out. You could fudge and just add the 
>tiniest imaginable drop to the yeast you have, but you'd be 
>over-dosing the oil by thousands of times the required amount, 
>and run the risk of having zero foam retention. Not a good 
>compromise in my opinion. 

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