Any other Vinters out there have this experience?
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Carp said:
Mead can be both still or sparkling....have made both and i prefer the still...
You'd do better to boil the honey in a bit of water, 50/50, for a few minutes before adding any other ingrediants to the honey. kills any off yeasts that can cause the mead to go bad
champagne yeast seems to work better (lives longer and allows higher alcohol % to develop before dying) but there are so many types of beer yeast that will give additional flavors to the mead that i tend to use those.
The reall problem with mead is that it takes so damn long to age properly. i have some mead that i made about 18 months ago that gets better each time i have some. and I hate waiting.
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Re: Re: Recipe
Roses have a high level of natural acidity
(in fact rosewater douches have been reccomended int he past as methods of birth control because of this) and the addition of the rosewater helps kill the bacteria
A little sulfite won't hurt tho
Carp said:
Roses have a high level of natural acidity
(in fact rosewater douches have been reccomended int he past as methods of birth control because of this) and the addition of the rosewater helps kill the bacteria
A little sulfite won't hurt tho
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Nora said:
Hey, I work in the wine biz & I heard about a guy who took a bath in Vegas in Roederer Cristal
He'd won big in a casino & they comped him the Champagne
Given that retail on Cristal is around $725 a gallon and a bath is up to 10 gallons, that was a heck of a bath
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Got an amusing (to me at any rate) story about alcohol abuse for y'all. In Viking Tradition, to get into Valhalla, not only do you have to die in battle, you must also drink (the equivillent I Hope!) all the alcohol you've spilled in your life! (does this include puking? My Viking buddy hopes not!). Well I'm a member of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), a medieval recreation group. A few years back, when I was in college the first time, we held a coronet tourney...In a hotel called the Valhalla in....I knew some Vikings who refused to go, saying that the drinking needed would kill em!
Mead does take FOREVER to age. I do have a bottle of 5 year old Cranberry mead that I made in college that we opened last xmas. It was worth the wait. Went down nice and smooth. It was like drinking...Well it was good.
Got an amusing (to me at any rate) story about alcohol abuse for y'all. In Viking Tradition, to get into Valhalla, not only do you have to die in battle, you must also drink (the equivillent I Hope!) all the alcohol you've spilled in your life! (does this include puking? My Viking buddy hopes not!). Well I'm a member of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), a medieval recreation group. A few years back, when I was in college the first time, we held a coronet tourney...In a hotel called the Valhalla in....I knew some Vikings who refused to go, saying that the drinking needed would kill em!
Mead does take FOREVER to age. I do have a bottle of 5 year old Cranberry mead that I made in college that we opened last xmas. It was worth the wait. Went down nice and smooth. It was like drinking...Well it was good.
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