Mead Lovers Digest #1486

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1486, 24 August 2010 
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Mead Lover's Digest #1486                                  24 August 2010 

                      Mead Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  really long term storage (Steve Ruch) 
  Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1485, 20 August 2010 (Mark Ottenberg) 
  Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1485, 20 August 2010 (Sammy Wight) 
  Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1485, 20 August 2010 ("Dennis Key") 

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Subject: really long term storage 
From: tattoo123@webtv.net (Steve Ruch) 
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:56:42 -0700 

How high a % would I need to get to to be reasonably sure the mead would 
be good in 15 years? 
Thanks, 
Steve 

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Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1485, 20 August 2010 
From: Mark Ottenberg <mark@riverrock.org> 
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:15 -0600 

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'..." :-) 

Thanks everyone! 

- -- Mark (aka Sequoiah -- Look for it in tall bottles ;-) 

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Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1485, 20 August 2010 
From: Sammy Wight <sammy.wight@gmail.com> 
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:51:06 -0400 

*Who has a copy of the (historically)  oldest Mead recipe?  I have one from 
the 15th Century, found online from a British aristocrat.  Would love to 
have some more to tuck away in our recipe book.   sammy.wight@gmail.com 
thank you.* 

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Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1485, 20 August 2010 
From: "Dennis Key" <dione13@msn.com> 
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:00:40 -0600 

> Subject: Re: Housemoving and Acceptability. 
> From: Spam-a-holic <spamalot@catscoffeechocolate.com> 
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:34:47 -0400 
> 
> Housemoving for Todd Perry 
> 
> If you have large enough equipment, and remember that picking up 5 
> gallons is enough of a pain that picking up 10 gallons should 
> generally be avoided, size is not much of an issue. 

Since mead weighs approx. 8 lbs per gallon, I'd think lifting 80 lbs is 
indeed an issue even if you're in buff condition.  It's a shortcut to a 
lifelong back problem! 

 I have given away most of my one-gallon glass (harder to find these days) 

Ay??  Fruit juice still comes in gallon jugs especially at organic markets. 
I have had no problems finding as many as I need.  A good quicky cider can 
be made by removing the cap from a gallon jug of Knudeson's, tossing in a 
packet of yeast and placing a fermentation lock.  This transates to a cyser 
with the addition of honey with the overflow going into a quart jug. 

Dione Greywolfe (AKA Dennis Key) 

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