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Mead Lovers Digest #1561

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1561, 26 December 2011 
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Mead Lover's Digest #1561 26 December 2011

Mead Discussion Forum

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Attenuation in mead ("Spencer W. Thomas")

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Subject: Attenuation in mead
From: "Spencer W. Thomas" <hbd@spencerwthomas.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:46:56 -0500

[I'm sure this will be one of many responses.]

Basically, "attenuation" is relevant only to beer fermentation, as it is
a function of how well the yeast will ferment non-simple sugars (i.e.,
not glucose, fructose, maltose or sucrose). It's just not an issue with
mead, because "all" the sugars in honey are simple, and so the
theoretical attenuation is 100%. Mead fermentation will stop because of
other limits, such as alcohol tolerance, pH dropping too low, and low
nutrient levels.

So don't worry about the "attenuation" figures specified for yeast.

=Spencer in Ann Arbor

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End of Mead Lover's Digest #1561
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