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Spotted Tongue Sweet Mead

Spotted Tongue Sweet Mead

Specialty Beer • Extract • 5 gal

Stan

First attempt at a mead. Will probably add some blackberry syrup to part of the batch when it stops fermenting actively.

April 30, 2003 pm 07:05pm

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Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 15.7 lbs Honey

    Honey

    Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.

  • 1 tsp Yeast Nutrient - (omitted from calculations)

    Yeast Nutrient

  • White Labs WLP720 Sweet Mead/Wine

    White Labs WLP720 Sweet Mead/Wine

    A wine yeast strain that is less attenuative than WLP715, leaving some residual sweetness. Slightly fruity and will tolerate alcohol concentrations up to 15%. A good choice for sweet mead and cider, as well as Blush wines, Gewärztraminer, Sauternes, Riesl

Notes

Started just after Thanksgiving 2002. Gravity down to 1.034 on 4/30/03. Still bubbling at about 1 bubble/10-15 secs.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 23 - Specialty Beer

Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.100 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.019 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 0.3 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 10.7% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 0.0 IBU 0 - 100

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