Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1469, 5 May 2010 Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:44:23 -0600 (MDT) From: mead-request@talisman.com Mead Lover's Digest #1469 5 May 2010 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: attention: juno.com and netzero.com subscribers (Mead Lovers Digest) Commercial Reverse Osmosis for Mead (docmac9582@aol.com) Tracing honey's origin ("Patrick St. Jean") Re: Filtering Mead (MeadGuild@aol.com) Re: Cyser ingredients ("Joanna Bailey") NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to mead@talisman.com. Use mead-request@talisman.com for [un]subscribe and admin requests. Digest archives and FAQ are available at www.talisman.com/mead#Archives A searchable archive is at http://www.gotmead.com/mldarchives.html Digest Janitor: Dick Dunn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: attention: juno.com and netzero.com subscribers From: mead-request@talisman.com (Mead Lovers Digest) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:35:37 -0600 (MDT) If you're subscribed to this Digest from either juno.com or netzero.com: Your ISP has rejected the digest twice this year. Unfortunately the reason given for rejection is gibberish--a string of 88 hex digits--and there's nothing I can do about it. If it keeps happening I'll just have to unsubscribe you all...so keep an eye out if you start missing digests. Sorry. - --the janitor ------------------------------ Subject: Commercial Reverse Osmosis for Mead From: docmac9582@aol.com Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:34:29 -0400 Reverse Osmosis Nathan Boettcher asked about commercial use of reverse osmosis for mead. Jilbert Winery in Valley View, Ohio uses it twice on their mead - once before fermentation and a second time to remove the yeast when it gets to the point they want to stop fermentation; and then sells the mead/honey wine immediately. In my opinion, the mead tastes very clean with few faults and compares favorably with most commercial meads - but is a bit thin and young. Although good now, I have a bottle or two aging to see what happens to it in a year or two. Carl McMillin Brecksville, OH ------------------------------ Subject: Tracing honey's origin From: "Patrick St. Jean" Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:45:53 -0500 Via the pollen... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/tau-tas042910.php - -- Pat in Lewisville '04 BMW R1150RT '97 XLH 883 (Rocinante) BS#140 K0OOK EKIII rides with me http://www.pat-st-jean.com/ http://www.bikerscum.org/ ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Filtering Mead From: MeadGuild@aol.com Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:33:26 EDT Captain Chuck wrote: > "I've made several batches now and even though I started > to rack two or three times, my mead still seems to be > cloudy. Should I be filtering it somehow?" If you are referring to something along the lines of a Buon Vino Mini or Super Jet system, you???re looking at a high dollar cost. Before doing that I suggest you try Super-Klear which should be $2 per packet. If that doesn???t work, look into an inline filter which can run between $5 and $60. Dick - - "Mead is no more a honey wine than beer is a malt wine." Richard D. Adams, CPA (Retired) Ellicott City, Maryland ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Cyser ingredients From: "Joanna Bailey" Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:33:52 -0700 I don't enter mine in any competitions, so I don't pay attention to rules, but my cyser is made from nothing but fresh pressed apple juice from my neighbor's trees (enough to fill a 5 gallon carboy minus the honey), and a gallon of honey from local hives, plus whatever yeast seems interesting at the time. We ended up drinking most of our 2008 bottling at last winter solstice. Very strong and tasted like essence of apples. Now we're drinking the "apple ale" we made last fall using nothing but more fresh pressed juice and Nottingham ale yeast, no sweetener added. Very dry and refreshing. Joanna ------------------------------ End of Mead Lover's Digest #1469 *******************************