Fw: [SCA-dist2] Fw: [Mid] Mead recipe?????

Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan D. Pierce <rdpierce@pobox.com>
To: SCA-dist2@onelist.com <SCA-dist2@onelist.com>
Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SCA-dist2] Fw: [Mid] Mead recipe?????

>From: rdpierce@pobox.com (Ryan D. Pierce)
>
>
>Jeff Jones said:
>
>>From: Jeff Jones <ceanntigern@yahoo.com>
>>
>>i have but one question. to be mead do you not need
>>honey. if you use suger, should you not call it a
>>wine?
>
>It is true that you need honey in a mead for it to be a mead.
>
>The methods this lady suggests seem quite sloppy and prone to producing
>either vinegar or weasel spit as well as explosion potential, although
>they are quite certainly close to period.
>
>My beefs about it are:
>
>* No sanitation. Then again, they didn't have or understand this in period.
>
>* No yeast selection. I hear that bread yeast produces bread flavors in
>a beverage fermented with it, but I had no desire to experiment and find
out.
>Then again, people in period often let wild yeast infect the wort or must
>by keeping it in an uncovered pot. Yeast wasn't well understood, although
>the most high-tech and controllable approach they had in period was
>krausening, the taking of yeast from one batch and using it to innoculate
>another.
>
>* There could be more done to prevent oxidation and airborne infection.
>Stuffing a rag into a bottle isn't as effective as a fermentation lock
>filled with sanitizing solution. Then again, it's documented that
>in period people stuffed the bungs of barrels with rags as stuff ferments
>as a crude airlock. In fact, the principal difference in the process
>vs. period is that she's using glass instead of wood barrels.
>
>* The carbonation seems rather uncontrolled. No quantity of priming
>sugar was given, so someone could add way too much and get an
>explosion quite easily. I have no idea if carbonation was period. Any
>ideas?
>
>Ryan
>
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From: "Alderton, Philippa" <phlip@morganco.net>
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