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Joe Mattioli's Ancient Orange and spice Mead recipe
you could add some nutrient if it made you feel better....just be careful and put the dj in the sink, as anything added to a fermenting must will cause foaming, and sometimes it can be excessive, so if you plan to do it, put DJ in sink and remove some must first...as this will happen
Well, I did add some, just to prove Bob right. Again.
Took half a litre of must out, popped in a tsp of nutrient and dived, in the style of John Cleese in the Monty Python 'Mr. Creosote' sketch, behind the settee and waited for the explosion. It never came
It has perked it up a bit, and it's ticking along in a most civilised manner at the rate of about 10 bubbles a minute.
I will now shut up and do what was suggested on page one - forget about it for a while
Pete the Instructor
It looks like Phil Donahue throwing up into a tuba
Ok, just been out and bought the ingrediants for this mead but I couldn't find cinnemon sticks so I bought ground cinnemon instead... how much should I put in?
Meads Proportion of ingredients -- Spices, fruits, herbs, flower petals etc.
HOW MUCH FRUIT TO USE?
Some say Fresh Fruit is the way to go? I purchase the best fresh fruit that I can afford and find and then I clean, remove pips and blemishes slice label and freeze in zip lock bags. It enables me to purchase fruit at the
The Schwartz cinnemon sticks I got were from Tesco and came in a jar (same as other spices). Using powder may release more aroma and flavour much faster than using a stick, I would hang on and get some sticks.
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Secretary of 5 Towns Wine and Beer Society
My friends would think I was a nut, turning water into wine....... Lyrics from Solsbury hill by Peter Gabriel
Ok, just been out and bought the ingrediants for this mead but I couldn't find cinnemon sticks so I bought ground cinnemon instead... how much should I put in?
Sigh... I've got spare cinnamon sticks, if you want to PM me your address, I'll post some to you... after all, we can't have an empty DJ burnign a hole in your worktop now can we?
Sigh... I've got spare cinnamon sticks, if you want to PM me your address, I'll post some to you... after all, we can't have an empty DJ burnign a hole in your worktop now can we?
No we can't but I'll be ok finding some. It'd cost the same in postage as it would to but some new. Thanks for the offer tho
Ok, couldn't be bothered to nip down to Morrison's for cinnamon sticks so I decided that one stick would equate to roughly a quater tsp of ground cinnamon and so I dumped in that amount. I'll let you all know how it turns out with that substitution. Also I used desert yeast rather than grandma's old bread yeast
I've made mead using the "A simple mead tutorial step by step - It ain't hard!" recipe but I used an AP yeast and it's died, I believe, due to not have enough alcohol tollerance. This has left me with a mean that is showing a gravity of 1.021 which is far too sweet for me.
What's my best way forward? I was
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