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Mead Lovers Digest #1360
Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1360, 13 January 2008
From: mead-request@talisman.com
Mead Lover's Digest #1360 13 January 2008
Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
Re Braggot (MeadGuild@aol.com)
RE: vitamins in alcoholic beverages ("Alan Meeker")
storage (dan@geer.org)
MeadFest postponed? (RAshley731@aol.com)
Mead gone wild... (Michael Fairbrother)
Meadllennium 2008 reminder ("OCurrans")
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Subject: Re Braggot
From: MeadGuild@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:58:41 EST
Michael Faul _mfaul@rabbitsfootmeadery.com_
(mailto:mfaul@rabbitsfootmeadery.com) wrote:
> Blending a beer/ale/mead creates something completely
> different. In fact according to the TTB, at least commercially,
> you cannot legally blend a beer and a mead as the tax
> classification would be polluted and there would be no way
> to tax it based on the resulting volume.
Years ago in a speech I gave at a tax conference, I noted that life is
like running a moonshine still - you can do whatever you want until the
revenue agents show up at your door. Unfortunately, commercial brewers
are well-acquainted with those revenue agents and have to comply with every
nuance of the applicable tax laws. So, in the end, it is the TTB and your
friendly State agencies who decide what is and what is not a Braggot for
commercial purposes.
But if there was a large enough market for a blended beverage of beer and
Mead, the infamous 'they' would either make a separate tax classification
for it or tax it at the higher rate.
Dick
- --
Richard D. Adams, CPA (retired)
Moderator: misc.taxes.moderated
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Subject: RE: vitamins in alcoholic beverages
From: "Alan Meeker" <ameeker@mail.jhmi.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:33:22 -0500
Concerning the limits imposed by the government on vitamin additions to
alcoholic beverages, my guess is that this is to prevent the finished
product from being characterized as "vitamin-fortified" or
"vitamin-enriched" (i.e. perceived as health-promoting).
- -Alan Meeker
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Subject: storage
From: dan@geer.org
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:00:22 -0500
Everyone everywhere says to store wine bottles on their side so the corks
stay wet.
At the same time, in visiting wineries and grocery stores and liquor stores
and so forth, I have never seen anything stored on its side once it is in
a cardboard box / case.
As I soak my corks for a couple of hours before using them (in Idaphor),
so it isn't like they need to be introduced to "wet."
In other words, who needs racks when boxes -- boxes can be stacked, too
- -- are what the guys who make their living at this use? Yes, if you are
storing for 10 years then I get the picture, but not otherwise.
- --dan, fresh from bottling 30 cases
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Subject: MeadFest postponed?
From: RAshley731@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:52:55 EST
Thought I'd ask here first:
any word as to whether or not the International Mead Festival has found a
new site?
(Before I use that time off for a little Maui jaunt)?
In Service,
Roberta
"In principio creavit Deus terrum et caelum.
In principio creavit Deus hominum, in celebratio imago,
et creavit Deus lupo, in perpetuii cantieri praesus."
Semidomesticus
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Subject: Mead gone wild...
From: Michael Fairbrother <fairbrother@moonlightmeadery.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:32:47 -0500
Anyone doing any barrel meads, or meads with wild yeast?
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Subject: Meadllennium 2008 reminder
From: "OCurrans" <OCurrans@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:57:27 -0500
Last call for Meadllennium 2008 entries.
Entries need to be here by 19 January.
The medals have arrived and the hand-engraved prizes are here (they look
GREAT!)
Don't forget - WE AWARD MORE MEAD MEDALS THAN ANYONE!!!
Check our web page for details and entry forms. www.cfhb.org/mead
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