Mead numbers and math examples

A few words and examples on calculation of receipts

Posted on May 14, 2017

In this post I will talk about how to calculate sugar volumes for targeting a specific sweetness and or alcohol of a mead. In a recipe the final gravity is your target and you will choose a yeast to control the ABV and on top of that the amount of honey. Here follows a table of ranges of final gravity for a mead for different sweetness. Sweetness Oechele Gravity Dry 0. [Read More]
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M05 - Pineapple and Coconut mead

Log of brewing the pineapple and coconut mead

Posted on April 30, 2017

This is the brewlog for Pineapple and Coconut mead recipe I put together. Here follows the fermentation graph over time for this mead. #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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Pineapple and Coconut mead

A Pineapple and Coconut mead recipe

Posted on April 29, 2017

Heres my recipe for a Pineapple and Coconut mead. I will base this on PGW show mead recipe but increasing the amount of honey to 3 x 650g for a sweet mead. 5dl + 3dl coconut flakes 1 pineapple, about 1 litre of pineapple cubes 1.95 Kg wild flower honey 2.5g Lavlin D47 yeast 6g Fermaid-K nutrients Receipe Santize all of your equipment Chop up the pineapple into 1 cm cubes [Read More]
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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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