Mead Lovers Digest #1343

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1343, 24 September 2007 
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Mead Lover's Digest #1343                                  24 September 2007 

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

Contents: 
  Watering it down (Alida Dunning) 
  Peach Mango Mead Rcp. ("James, Trevor") 

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Subject: Watering it down 
From: Alida Dunning <alida@alaska.net> 
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:45:21 -0800 

Hey there 
I've had a great season for making mead: coconut, pineapple, dandelion, 
mango, and rose petal. 
My question: The rhodomel seems pretty syrupy. I'll let it go a lot longer 
before it is done, but it got me wondering if it is Ok to add water after 
the secondary fermentation to make it less syrupy. I'm not into sweet meads. 
I used lalvin D-47. I try to go for dry meads. I made a batch a few years 
ago with my neighbor who likes a high alcohol content. We made a "punch" 
flavor using cherry, strawberry, raspberry and fireweed blossom. I liked to 
add up to 50% water when serving. It really made it more drinkable and 
brought out the fruit flavors. 
So I'm curious about what would happen if I added say another gallon of 
water to the five gallon batch, abut a month old now, and then let it sit to 
complete any additional fermentation before bottling. 
Any thoughts? 
Thanks 

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Subject: Peach Mango Mead Rcp. 
From: "James, Trevor" <james@telfer.uottawa.ca> 
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:23:14 -0400 

My daughter is looking for me to do up a Peach/Mango Melomel. 

I am looking at doing aobut 1 Gal batch (never do more than a gallon 
until you have something you like is my rule) 

so probabably 1 gal of water 2lbs (1kg) of clover honey, but how much 
peach/manog would the experts recommend. 

Thanks in advance. 

T. James 

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From: German Ponce <germanbotha@hotmail.com> 
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:40:04 -0700 

hi; 

I?m a chilean student looking for some information I could not find and 
probably you can help. 
   It was impossible for me to now what its the consumer profile of mead 
in the US, that its some important information I have to now about for my 
final work. 
any other information about comercial stuff in the US i?ll be glad if you 
let me now. 

sincerely thanks 

German Ponce P.  Santiago, Chile. 

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