Just regular cocoa powder. I started fermenting only a couple of weeks ago so it is very early days but a batch of papaya melomel that I started at the same time using the same yeast compacted the lees much better. But this may simply be an issue of time. I won't be racking again for about two months and it is possible the lees will compact on their own. Alternatively, my plan is to rack the mead from the lees and then pull the liquid from the lees though a buchner filter that I can easily rig using a funnel, coffee filters laid across a mesh plastic or wire sieve placed inside the funnel, a bung with two nipples or holes (one for the funnel and the other to hold a tube leading to a vacuum pump), the pump and a lastly a carboy to hold the drawn liquid .
chocolate mead using Hershey's powder
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Just regular cocoa powder. I started fermenting only a couple of weeks ago so it is very early days but a batch of papaya melomel that I started at the same time using the same yeast compacted the lees much better. But this may simply be an issue of time. I won't be racking again for about two months and it is possible the lees will compact on their own. Alternatively, my plan is to rack the mead from the lees and then pull the liquid from the lees though a buchner filter that I can easily rig using a funnel, coffee filters laid across a mesh plastic or wire sieve placed inside the funnel, a bung with two nipples or holes (one for the funnel and the other to hold a tube leading to a vacuum pump), the pump and a lastly a carboy to hold the drawn liquid .
All that? For a Scottish guy, you sure are casual! 'Grin' we need to talk about this.....over a single male scotch brewed there....with a splash of lapsong souchon tea....and see if we can work this out. Am sure we can bring peace to the Middle East.
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I can go a nice glass of Talisker but I moved to the USA and became a citizen on 9/11 last year. I used to drink tea but these days my drink is french pressed coffee. As to peace in the m/east... I am optimistic but given the wars we have started or found ourselves in I am not sure that we have anything to teach anyone about living in peace...
