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Blueberry and Raspberry mead

A blueberry and raspberry mead recipe

Posted on April 23, 2017

I wanted to create a medium sweet melomel with blueberry and raspberry. I started out with PGW show mead receipe and changed it to the following. 250g frozen blueberries 250g frozen raspberries 1.5kg honey 2.5g Lavlin D47 Receipe Santize all of your equipment Put the frozen fruits into a bowl in a hot warm water bath Heat up water 2 litre of water to 30° celcius and stir up the honey into a must, then pour the fruits and juice into the cattle and stir for a while. [Read More]

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M04 - Blueberry and Raspberry mead

Log of brewing the blueberry and raspberry mead

Posted on April 23, 2017

This is the brewlog for Blueberry and Raspberry mead recipe I put together. Here follows the fermentation graphs. I followed the recipe as advertised and was finished around 21:30. The must looks very dark as you can see in the picture below. Raspberry seeds seems to gather up on the bottom but the rest of fruit is floating at the top of the carboy. Here follows the fermentation graph over time for this mead. [Read More]

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Degassing using vacuum

How to remove co2 gas in mead using vacuum

Posted on April 20, 2017

I read up on degassing process before bottling the mead and found the approach of using vacuum do draw out the gas from the mead. After some more digging into the subject I found that a manual vacuum pump, used for resealing opened wine bottles could be used for the purpose. This seemed to be a very simple approach to degassing. No need to dipping a tool that need to sanitzed to swirl the mead. [Read More]

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M03 - Medium mead

Log of brewing the PGW mead with a more honey

Posted on April 17, 2017

This time I wanted to set a sweeter batch of mead. I followed the PGW mead receipt but bumped up the honey from 1.25Kg to 1.5Kg. I will updated this post with more information during the timeline of fermentation and aging. #chart_container { position: relative; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #chart { position: relative; left: 40px; } .rickshaw_graph .x_tick .title { bottom: -24px; left: -18px; } #y_axis { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 40px; } $. [Read More]

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M02 - JAO mead

Log of brewing the JAO mead

Posted on April 9, 2017

This post will be updated with a log of brew of one gallon JAO Mead. I have changed the recipe using D47 yeast as described in the linked post. #chart_container { position: relative; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #chart { position: relative; left: 40px; } .rickshaw_graph .x_tick .title { bottom: -24px; left: -18px; } #y_axis { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 40px; } $. [Read More]

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JAO Mead

Posted on April 8, 2017

I’m interested in doing a melomel which is a mead with fruits. I found a recipe that I found interesting tasteful which is named JAO mead. I changed the yeast in the receipe to a white wine yeast Lavlin D47 which I have on the shelf. This recipe is for one gallon mead. 1.5 Kg honey 1 large orange 25 raisins 1 cinnamon stick 1 or two cloves 2. [Read More]

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M01 - My first mead

Log of brewing the PGW startkit show mead

Posted on April 2, 2017

This post will be updated with a log of my journey brewing the show mead using the starter kit bought from PGW mentioned in earlier blog post. #chart_container { position: relative; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #chart { position: relative; left: 40px; } .rickshaw_graph .x_tick .title { bottom: -24px; left: -18px; } #y_axis { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 40px; } $. [Read More]

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PGW Show mead starter kit

Posted on March 31, 2017

I bought a mead start kit from PGW which included everything to start to create mead, all the equipments and the sanitizer, yeast and nutrient. This start kit is for creating 4 litres (1 gallon) show mead which is mead in its purest form, honey, water and yeast. The kit also includes a brewing instruction which I will describe below. This post will also be updated with a brew log as a reference for future brewing. [Read More]

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Midi sync Volca beats with Analog four

Posted on December 3, 2015

I just recently got my Volca Beats analog drum machine and wanted to sync it up with my Analog Four. To enable Volca Beats to sync with external device using midi you need to make sure that clock source is configured to auto. While holding down func key and power on the volca device, you will enter configuration mode of the Volca Beats. Pressing play button will cancel any changes, record will save the changes and reboot your device. [Read More]

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