Mead Lovers Digest #1613

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1613, 6 December 2012 
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Mead Lover's Digest #1613                                  6 December 2012 

                      Mead Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Re: Dispensing Mead Similar to Beer ("David Houseman") 
  Dispensing Mead Similar to Beer ("Dan @strad Mead") 

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Subject: Re: Dispensing Mead Similar to Beer 
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman@verizon.net> 
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:02:40 -0500 

Vuarra says: 
The only downside I can see with your system is that nitrogen also dissolves 
in water, and that you will still have a sparkling mead, but with nitrogen 
bubbles which are smaller than CO2 -- I remember hearing about the size 
of the gas from several of my beer sites, not from my own experience. 

While nitrogen is indeed soluble in water it is about 2 orders of magnitude 
less soluble than CO2.   At 10oC and one atmosphere of pressure, CO2 will 
dissolve about 2.5g of gas per Kg of water while nitrogen will dissolve 
about .025g or gas per Kg of water.   So at low dispensing pressures, there 
will little to no gas bubbles in the mead.   It's not a matter of bubble 
size but whether there will be much if any dissolved gas in the mead. 
Using the beer gas/party gas mix the CO2 will go into solution at the 
partial pressure of the CO2 but the nitrogen will have little impact on the 
"carbonation."   That's why one uses that to push beer at higher pressures 
for longer draft runs without over carbonating the beer. 

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Subject: Dispensing Mead Similar to Beer 
From: "Dan @strad Mead" <dan@stradmead.com> 
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 05:52:37 -0800 

I have been experimenting  with using argon instead of N2 or CO2 when I 
am serving a still mead. Since argon is not absorbed by liquid there isn't 
any sparkling affects. 

Dan 

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