Mead Lovers Digest #1585

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1585, 14 May 2012 
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Mead Lover's Digest #1585                                  14 May 2012 

                      Mead Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Re: Rosemary (MeadGuild@aol.com) 

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Subject: Re: Rosemary 
From: MeadGuild@aol.com 
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 14:33:50 -0400 (EDT) 

Steve Ruch wrote: 

> Rosemary blends well with lemon, especially on chicken. Several years 
> ago I started brewing a lemon-rosemary blonde ale that is now my house 
> beer. 
> 
> Maybe you could make a lemon mead and blend the two softening the 
> rosemary mead to something good. 

As soon as I read this, thoughts of enhancing my lemon Mead began 
running through my head. So I filled 2 one liter bottles with my sweet 
lemon Mead, added a 1/4 tsp of fairly old crushed rosemary to one 
of them, and put them both of them in the refrigerator for an hour. 

This Mead initially fermented dry.  Rather than back-sweetening with 
honey, I added 8 grams of (250 x sugar) Stevia and the result is still 
too sweet for me. 

After an hour in the fridge, the verdict is the Mead is still too sweet, 
but the Rosemary makes it more drinkable. 

Dick 
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Richard D. Adams, CPA  (Retired) 

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