From raven!mead`at`netcom.com Thu Jul 27 01:56:16 1995 Status: O X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["3338" "" "26" "July" "1995" "21:52:52" "MDT" "mead-request`at`talisman.com" "mead-request`at`talisman.com" nil "89" "Mead Lover's Digest #421, 26 July 1995" "^Date:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from truelies.rs.itd.umich.edu (truelies.rs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.83.38]) by mendel.hgp.med.umich.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA16523 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 01:56:14 -0400 Received: by truelies.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.6.12/2.2) with X.500 id BAA18239; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 01:56:14 -0400 Received: from netcomsv.netcom.com by truelies.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.6.12/2.2) with ESMTP id BAA18234; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 01:56:12 -0400 Received: from raven.UUCP by netcomsv.netcom.com with UUCP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id WAA28621; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 22:19:33 -0700 Received: by raven.eklektix.com (smail2.5) id AA19461; 26 Jul 95 21:52:52 MDT (Wed) Errors-To: mead-errors`at`talisman.com Reply-To: mead`at`talisman.com Message-Id: <9507262152.AA19461`at`raven.eklektix.com> Date: 26 Jul 95 21:52:52 MDT (Wed) From: mead-request`at`talisman.com To: mead`at`talisman.com Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #421, 26 July 1995 Mead Lover's Digest #421 26 July 1995 Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor Contents: Note from janitor: If articles bounced, just re-send (Dick Dunn) Re: restarting a stuck fermentation -- update (Dieter Dworkin Muller) strawberries & brewers yeast (Joe Uknalis) NOTE: Digest only appears when there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to mead`at`talisman.com. Use mead-request`at`talisman.com for [un]subscribe/admin requests. When subscribing, please include name and email address in body of message. Digest archives and FAQ are available for anonymous ftp at ftp.stanford.edu in pub/clubs/homebrew/mead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Note from janitor: If articles bounced, just re-send From: rcd`at`raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) Date: 23 Jul 95 13:19:06 MDT (Sun) There was apparently a period of a few days during which articles sent to the digest may have bounced with a complaint of being unable to send to mead%talisman.com (the % being the indicator that you were caught by the problem). If this happened to you, just resubmit your article to the normal address (mead`at`talisman.com). Sorry for the burp. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: restarting a stuck fermentation -- update From: Dieter Dworkin Muller Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 22:41:08 -0600 I recently wrote: : So, we went ahead and bubbled seven liters of oxygen through each of : the five gallon carboys (well, two fives and one 4 3/4, now). I'll : send out another update in a week or two, once I know whether or not : the yeast will be waking back up. : : One other thing we did was add about a teaspoon of yeast nutrient to : each carboy. Couldn't hurt, and will probably help. And, after a few days, the results are in. All three carboys are blowing off gas again. The straight mead (honey&water) is doing a glub every forty five seconds or so, the blueberry (honey, water, and blueberry extract) is going about half that, at around ninety seconds/glub. The third, which was made from pure wildflower (rather than the common `wildflower' which is significantly diluted with clover honey), has all the signs of having started up again, but I didn't see it glub once in five minutes. By signs, I mean that the part that needs to fill with gas before it can glub is indeed full of gas, not water as it was a few days ago. I'm probably going to try pitching a little more yeast nutrient into the wildflower this weekend. This has the advantage of helping remove the convolution of changing two variables at once -- oxygen and nutrient, so I can't complain too much. Dworkin ------------------------------ Subject: strawberries & brewers yeast From: Joe Uknalis Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:17:27 -0400 (EDT) Hi folks- anyone ever made a strawberry mead? Any advice? I feed my cats "brewers yeast" (debittered) occasionally, would this be a good substitue for wine yeast nutrient (which is reported to leave a metallic taste)? Are what rate per gallon? thanks Joe juknalis`at`arserrc.gov ------------------------------ End of Mead Lover's Digest #421 *******************************