Mead Lovers Digest #1489

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1489, 19 September 2010 
From: mead-request@talisman.com 

 
Mead Lover's Digest #1489                                  19 September 2010 

                      Mead Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1488, 11 September 2010 (DaveL256@aol.com) 
  Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1488, 11 September 2010 ("Dennis Key") 
  digest longevity (Mead Lovers Digest) 
  where to buy mead (Ian Huang) 

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Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1488, 11 September 2010 
From: DaveL256@aol.com 
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:13:52 EDT 

Big caveat:  Do not use a pectic enzyme late in the process as it  produces 
methanol as a by-product.  Better to live with a hazy melomel than  go 
blind! 
dave lustig 

In a message dated 9/11/2010 8:29:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
mead-request@talisman.com writes: 

I have a  cranberry melomel with pectin haze.  Treatment ? 

John  Cleal 

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Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1488, 11 September 2010 
From: "Dennis Key" <dione13@msn.com> 
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:27:25 -0600 

<SNIP> 

This is why I no longer use corked bottles.  I began some time ago enjoying 
Steinlager in 750 ml crown cap bottles and Grolsch in bale cap bottles.  I 
now have several cases of each and use them to bottle all my meads. 

I too have run batches to "completion", watching the last carboy like a hawk 
for bubbles through the lock, taking serial S.G. readings until they are 
unchanging for a month and even adding potassium sorbate at the final 
racking.  All too often the result has been bottle rockets, a sticky mess 
and a highly annoyed spouse.  Now, if it recarbonates, I enjoy the 
unexpected sparkling mead with clean walls and floors! 

Waissil!  Dione Greywolfe 

<SNIP> 
> 
>  About 10 days after bottling the first corks began 
> to blow off.  I uncorked an intact bottle and found that the mead had a very 
> nice head - too much - and lots of sparkle.  The taste was still pretty good. 
> Though I was hoping that had dried out a bit I cannot say for sure 
>  that it did.  SG was about 1.01 or maybe if I was optimistic 1.008.  I did 
>  not use any sulfate at any time and would prefer to avoid it if possible. 

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Subject: digest longevity 
From: mead-request@talisman.com (Mead Lovers Digest) 
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:18:28 -0600 (MDT) 

Meant to address this point...a few digests back, Mark Ottenberg noted: 

> And I remember someone putting the question out some years ago if the 
> digest should be shut down now that we've reached issue 1000.  "What 
> else is there to say?" 
>   
> This issue seems to answer:  "We've only begun to start a bubblin'..." :-) 

I don't recall contemplating shutting the digest down at 1000!  But 
certainly it would have been a matter to consider.  And that was seven and 
a half years ago. 

Yes, a lot has been said...BUT (for better AND worse) a lot has been said 
wrong, or not-quite-right, or "huh?!?".  So we keep learning and fixing our 
mistakes, and the ingredients and process get more predictable.  I think 
- -that- is why the digest keeps muddling along.  It's not just helping the 
new folks; it's correcting our own misunderstandings and filling in the 
gaps. 

As for how long this thing will keep going...I dunno, but unless something 
goes way-wrong, I figure I'm good 'til issue 2000.  There WILL need to be 
some modernization!  (OK, those of you running Windows 98, just calm down!) 
- --- 
Mead-Lover's Digest                            mead-request@talisman.com 
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor                  Boulder County, Colorado  USA 

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Subject: where to buy mead 
From: Ian Huang <verseau40k@gmail.com> 
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:13:26 +0700 

hi, i like to buy honey mead, 
but the problem is i am in Indonesia, 
do you know any company / store which can sell and delivered honey mead to 
indonesia ??? 

thanks 

best regards 

Ian Wijaya 

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