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Mead Log: September 2010
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Sunday, September 26, 2010. Austin's Medium Raspberry Melomel. 1 packets of Lavlin EC-1118. 12 lbs of honey. 35 gallons of water (approximately). Clarification agent (not sure which yet). Approximately 1 Gallon of Raspberries. Treat in water with 2 Campden tablets for 24 hours. 1 Raise 6 oz of water to 110 degrees F. 2 Add 4 tsp of Go-Ferm and stir. 3 When temp has decresed to 104 degrees F, add 5 grams yeast and stir. 1 Put 12 lbs of honey in carboy.
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Mead Log: Viking Maiden
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. This will be a peppermint/spearmint mead. The primary is almost identical to Tommy's Biscuit Mead, except the orange was peeled. Peppermint and spearmint tea bags will be added to the secondary. 3 lbs Rice's Lucky Clover Honey. 1 large orange - peeled. 1 gal of distilled water. 2-1/4 teaspoons Red Star Bread Machine Yeast. Made must and pitched yeast. 04/09/09 @ 8:15 PM. 04/11/2009 @ 5:15 PM. 04/16/2009 @ 6:30 AM. 04/26/2009 @ 1:00 PM.
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Mead Log: March 2009
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. This will be a peppermint/spearmint mead. The primary is almost identical to Tommy's Biscuit Mead, except the orange was peeled. Peppermint and spearmint tea bags will be added to the secondary. 3 lbs Rice's Lucky Clover Honey. 1 large orange - peeled. 1 gal of distilled water. 2-1/4 teaspoons Red Star Bread Machine Yeast. Made must and pitched yeast. 04/09/09 @ 8:15 PM. 04/11/2009 @ 5:15 PM. 04/16/2009 @ 6:30 AM. 04/26/2009 @ 1:00 PM.
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Mead Log: Refined Tommy's Twleve-and-a-Half
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Sunday, November 8, 2009. This batch is almost the same as the previous batch of Tommy's Twelve-and-a-Half, but it will eliminate some of the mistakes in that batch, namely. I will appropriately use DAP instead of inappropriately using Fermaid K. I will use campden tablets to precisely and definitively stop fermentation (instead of attempting to cold crash and inappropriately using Potassium Sorbate and Potassium Metabisulfite to stop fermentation0. Yeast solutio...
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Mead Log: Onward and Upward (Tommy's Twelve-and-a-Half)
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Saturday, July 18, 2009. Onward and Upward (Tommy's Twelve-and-a-Half). This mead will be an attempt at using higher quality ingredients (i.e. a quality yeast, yeast nutrient and yeast energizer); more specialized mead-making materials (i.e. a hydrometer and an air-lock);. I also intend to use a clarifying agent after about 1 month to finish off the batch. 2 packets of Lavlin EC-1118. 15 lbs of honey. 4 gallons of water (approximately). 5 Pitch yeast solution.
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Mead Log: Cinnamon Mead
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Sunday, January 4, 2009. This is basically a simple JOA with cinnamon sticks added. If it doesn't have enough cinnamon flavor after the primary fermentation, I can add more cinnamon sticks during the secondary. 3 lbs Rice's Lucky Clover Honey. 30 raisins - diced. 4 ea 2-3/4" cinnamon sticks. 2-1/4 teaspoons of Red Star bread machine yeast. 1 gal of distilled water. Estimated Bottling Date: 04/19/2009. Made must and pitched yeast. I racked it to a new jug today...
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Mead Log: December 2008
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Friday, December 19, 2008. I could find no reference to cantaloupe mead on the Internet. Hopefully that's just because nobody had thought of it and not that it can't be done! My son, Stephen, came up with this idea, and I'll try to age some of it for his wedding or some other special occasion. Also, I'm only using 2 lbs of honey in this batch in hopes of making a drier mead that Linda and other dry wine lovers will enjoy. 2 lbs Rice's Lucky Clover Honey. Linda sa...
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Mead Log: January 2009
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Monday, January 26, 2009. Poncho Villa's Feminine Side: Jalapeno Mead. 3 lbs Clover Honey (Bargain brand from WalMart. Grade A. Probably Pasteurized.). 1 regular-sized orange (Peeled. Sectioned. Sections cut in half.). 25 raisins - diced. 2 Jalapenos (Sliced. De-seeded. Sanitized in 150 degree water for 10 minutes.). 2-1/4 teaspoons of Red Star bread machine yeast. 1 gal of distilled water. 1/25/2009 @ 5:45 AM. 1/26/2009 @ 5:45 AM. 1/26/2009 @ 6:00 PM. Racked it ...
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Mead Log: Austin's Medium Raspberry Melomel
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Sunday, September 26, 2010. Austin's Medium Raspberry Melomel. 1 packets of Lavlin EC-1118. 12 lbs of honey. 35 gallons of water (approximately). Clarification agent (not sure which yet). Approximately 1 Gallon of Raspberries. Treat in water with 2 Campden tablets for 24 hours. 1 Raise 6 oz of water to 110 degrees F. 2 Add 4 tsp of Go-Ferm and stir. 3 When temp has decresed to 104 degrees F, add 5 grams yeast and stir. 1 Put 12 lbs of honey in carboy. In addition...
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Mead Log: July 2009
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Thomas Aaron's personal mead making logs. Saturday, July 18, 2009. Onward and Upward (Tommy's Twelve-and-a-Half). This mead will be an attempt at using higher quality ingredients (i.e. a quality yeast, yeast nutrient and yeast energizer); more specialized mead-making materials (i.e. a hydrometer and an air-lock);. I also intend to use a clarifying agent after about 1 month to finish off the batch. 2 packets of Lavlin EC-1118. 15 lbs of honey. 4 gallons of water (approximately). 5 Pitch yeast solution.