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Germany find 1400 year old mead !!!

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fatbloke

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GntlKnigt1 needs to check his maths....

The article mentions 500 to 550BC which is two and a half thousand years not 1400.......

It'd be excellent if they could identify the yeast strain used...

Beautiful cauldron though......
 
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Medsen Fey said:
Good mead takes a little aging :)

It would be fun to have a golden drinking horn that holds 5.5L-
Little Wifey: HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING AGAIN??
Medsen (slurring badly): I only had one... :rolleyes:





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ROFL. Love that !!! Rather like the beer sold at Oktoberfest in Munich.... I hear they hold a liter !!! BTW, Oktoberfest is way bigger over in America than it is in Netherlands, and maybe Europe !! At least, in Chicago area it is. But then, Chicago is very ethnically diverse, but we digress.

That's some old mead there !!
 
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TheAlchemist said:
FB, did you say K1V is what Brother Adam used?
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According to his writings on his mead making, he originally used "Maury" yeast. The only isolate currently available from the Maury AOC region is Lalvin D21, but that wasn't isolated until after Brother Adams death. But we have to presume that its the same as was originally available.

So, once he found that he could no longer get the Maury yeast he changed to using the Montpelier strain, which was packed in the UK as Gervin Varietal "E", but is the same strain as Lalvin K1-V1116 (its actually vvv hard to find as the Gervin packs).
 
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fatbloke said:
According to his writings on his mead making, he originally used "Maury" yeast. The only isolate currently available from the Maury AOC region is Lalvin D21, but that wasn't isolated until after Brother Adams death. But we have to presume that its the same as was originally available.

So, once he found that he could no longer get the Maury yeast he changed to using the Montpelier strain, which was packed in the UK as Gervin Varietal "E", but is the same strain as Lalvin K1-V1116 (its actually vvv hard to find as the Gervin packs).
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Thanks, FB.
I remember asking this question ages ago and don't remember ever reading your reply.
Here it is!
 
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