35 lines
1.3 KiB
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35 lines
1.3 KiB
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Antipodal Mead (Traditional)
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Category: Beverages: Drinks, punch, etc...
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Posted by: Zero
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Quantity:
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Ingredients:
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Ingredients for 5 gallons 15# light honey
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(that's 5g water)
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1 Tbsp gypsum 4 tsp. acid blend
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1/2 oz yeast extract 1/4 tsp. Irish moss powder
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14 gram or 1/2 oz dried in preboiled 105 degree
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Champagne yeast or Pris de water for 10 min. before
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Mousse wine yeast rehydrated pitching
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O.G. (Original Gravity) F.G. (Final Gravity) 1.020 -
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1.120 - 1.130 1.035
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Instructions:
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Add the honey, gypsum, acid blend and Irish moss to 1.5
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gallon water and bring to a boil for 15 min. Skim the
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coagulated meringue like foam off the surface. Transfer the
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hot mead wort to a closed fermenter system and cold water.
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Seal and shake to aerate the wort. Rehydrate and pitch the
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yeast when temp. is below 80 degrees F. Ferment to
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completion, then rack into a secondary fermenter and let
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clear. Bottle when mead has cleared. It is ready to drink
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when cleared.
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Comments:
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What is mead? mead is defined as yeast-fermented honey
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water. if fruit is added to this, it is technically called
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a melomel. with grapes, it is called pyment. a mead with
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herbs and/or spices is called a metheglin. honey and apple
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juice fermented make cyser. a spiced pyment is called
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hippocras,
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