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Cold Mix Mead- Test Batch

This recipe is based of a book that my husband  got this about 11 years ago and has been randomly making mead from the recipe since then with various results –  But the results were not consistant either, some batches were medium some were OMG...
9,000-year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed

9,000-year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2004) — PHILADELPHIA, PA, December 2004 Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice,...

Falcon Meadery: New Mexico

Ancient beverage provides sweet window into man's history with fermentationSue Vorenberg | The New Mexican9/9/2008 – 9/10/08There's nothing like swigging back a mug full of mead, grabbing your ax, donning your furs and sailing off to pillage new lands....
Libations: Tapping into the Past and Dreading the Hangover

Libations: Tapping into the Past and Dreading the Hangover

Libations: Tapping into the Past and Dreading the Hangover by Samir S. Patel, Archeology Today November/December 2007 Volume 60 Number 6 Early Neolithic people in Jiahu, a village in China’s Henan Province, invented the earliest known alcoholic beverage. As the...

Basic Mead for Strawberry or Peach Melomel

July 17, 2008 11 qts water7 pounds Brazilian Pepper Honey2 Pounds Wilflower  HoneyHeated water/honey to 190 for 20 minutes, skimmed impuritiesCooled to 75 degrees Pitched White Labs 720 Sweet mead yeast.   SG1.11 July 24th, 2008First...

Rasberry Melomel

July 17, 2008 11 qts Filetered Water9 Pounds Orange Blosom Honey2 Pounds Wildflower Honey12 oz Wild Black Rasberry1 tsp Citric AcidHeated water and honey to 190 for 20 minutes, skimmed impuritiesRinsed frozen berries in camden water and placed in cheese cloth bag...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1380 Sat 12 July 2008

Mead Lover's Digest #1380 Sat 12 July 2008   Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor   Contents: Re: Joe's Ancient Orange (bill keiser) Sima? ("Joanna") Re: Joe's Ancient Orange (Mail Box)  ...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1379 Fri 4 July 2008

Mead Lover's Digest #1379 Fri 4 July 2008   Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor   Contents: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1378, 23 June 2008 (oskaar@dslextreme.com)   NOTE: Digest appears when there is enough...

Mead Lover’s Digest #0804 Mon 8 May 2000

Mead Lover's Digest #0804 Mon 8 May 2000   Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor   Contents: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #803, 30 April 2000 (Stace) Trace elements and such in honey (Nathan Kanous) lurky...

Mead Lover’s Digest #0805 Thu 11 May 2000

Mead Lover's Digest #0805 Thu 11 May 2000   Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor   Contents: Re: lurky (Dave Polaschek) airlock contributes to infection (Warren Place) possible hand grenades? (Yacko Warner Yacko)...

Mead Lover’s Digest #0806 Thu 18 May 2000

Mead Lover's Digest #0806 Thu 18 May 2000   Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor   Contents: Some basic mead questions ("Daryl") strawberry flavour ("Micah Millspaw") yeast growth rates...

Mead Lover’s Digest #0807 Wed 31 May 2000

Mead Lover's Digest #0807 Wed 31 May 2000   Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor   Contents: the dread thread (Joe O'Meara) That strawberry mead (Nathan Kanous) Re: Oxidized Mead (John DeCarlo) Thanks to all....