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morseson said:
krupnik or rather Krupnikas....
[b]Both are proper. "Krupnik" is Polish name, "Krupnikas" - Lithuanian.
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http://www.hbhjuozas.lt/?en=1103006956
It is Lithuanian way of seeing history. It seems, that all civilisation has sterted there. It is not a historical forum, so let's leave it as they wish.

In reviewing the mead recipes and the the krupnik recipes, i've come to the conclusion that a more cottage/rural method would be as follows:

1) wort the herbs, spices for krupnik, (http://www.ladybridget.com/m/krup.html)
replace the "rind" item with whole finely sliced lemon/orange
2) strain the liquid.
3) disolve a proportional amount of honey into it.
4) top it off with some fresh tasting spring water.
5) ferment 2-3 stages (re-carboy)
6) then freeze distill the metheglyn-cider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_distillation)
7) fusels? a) charcoal bits to collect fusels, OR b)bring to boil/then rapid cool, OR c) take a chance.


I personally find it hard to believe that the referred weblink recipe was used historically.
Sure. It's simple - making mead You mix water and honey, boil it, or not, add herbs and/or fruits or not, than You deal with it as with any other kind of wine. Prescriptions for making "krupnik" you may find above.
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My brother in law brought me a bottle of something he found while browsing in the local liquor store. Both of us being of Polish extraction, he thought we'd try it out together and compare and contrast to my semi-aged cherry mel. Nowhere near a fair contest, but...

The stuff is called "Nalewka Babuni", which Google translator tells me means "Grandma's Liquor".

Well, I don't know who this guy's granny is, but she's probably a diabetic barfly.

The stuff is 18% alcohol, and its SG is 1.070. It's like drinking a glass of honey with a couple shots of filtered grain alcohol dumped into it.

Well, that's not exactly fair... There's the very strong, disgustingly sweet taste of unfermented honey, but there're also hints of allspice, clove, perhaps peppercorn, and apple. THIS is cloyingly sweet.

The label does say "Dessert Honey Wine", but c'mon.

I could cut this by half with my driest traditional and it'd STILL be too sweet.


Joe
 
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