[Mid] Fw: [SCA-dist2] berry mead recipe

Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Jones <ceanntigern@yahoo.com>
To: dist2 sca <sca-dist2@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, June 28, 1999 12:08 PM
Subject: [SCA-dist2] berry mead recipe

>From: Jeff Jones <ceanntigern@yahoo.com>
>
>I thought i would post a general berry mead recipe of
>my own. i have had good luck with it.
>
>I am assuming sterilisation of all vessels and
>utensils. i do this out of habit and am almost anal
>about everything being clean.
>
>4 gals. water
>12 lbs. honey ( this makes up the 5th gal. of volume)
>4-6 lbs. berry or fruit of choice
> i prefer fresh picked or wine base from my brew
>store, fresh is prefered.
>montrachet yeast
>
>the water is heated to at least 170 degrees F. and the
>honey mixed in. the heat is turned off while mixing in
>the honey to prevent burning.
>bring temp. back up to 170 f. and add berries and
>maintain temp. to pasturise.
>i do not boil. more of the honey and berry essence is
>retained this way.
>the yeast is started in a half gallon of honey water.
>i do not have a chiller so the carboy is left to cool
>over night. i then add the yeast.
>a month later i rack off the berries an trub and put
>it back on a cool dark shelf to finnish.
>i sometimes put them in an oak keg for about a month,
>it does wonderful things to the flavor.
>
>i have started to use gelitin to claify the pectins to
>good effect but is is never complete. a year later i
>still have sedement.
>
> - any suggestions --
>
>i bottle in wine bottles and have two flip top beer
>bottles for taste testing. i try to refrain from taste
>testing for at least 8 months.
>
>I tried a greater amount of honey once and used
>champane yeast and the alchy is to high i don't think
>it will ever be drinkable.
>have concidered freese distilling it and putting it in
>a keg for a few years but have been concerned with the
>legal stuff. althought i find it hard to believe the
>feds care about those of us that distill for our own
>with not intent to sell. how could they even find out?
>
>jeff jones
>===
>From the office of Jeffrey P. Jones
>aka Ceanntigern a'Cildarach
>
>There are no mistakes, only changes.
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From: "Alderton, Philippa" <phlip@morganco.net>
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Received on Mon Jun 28 17:31:59 1999