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Sweet Vanilla Mead
Specialty Beer • Extract • 4 gal
This is a sweet mead recipe that I've added vanilla beans, technically making it a Metheglin.
September 6, 2008 pm 06:17pm
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Ingredients (Extract, 4 gal)
- 14 lbs
Honey
Honey
Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.
- 4 ea
Vanilla (whole bean) - (omitted from calculations)
Vanilla (whole bean)
Vanilla Beans have a sweet, perfumed aroma with a woody or smoky flavor. Pure Vanilla Extract has a similar aroma. Vanilla Beans are the long, greenish-yellow seed pods of the tropical orchid plant, Vanilla planifolia. Before the plant flowers, the pods are picked, unripe, and cured until they're dark brown. The process takes up to six months.
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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
- Mix the honey and the water in the fermenter and add the spices. - If using dry yeast (Lalvin D-47 or 71B work well), use 6.25g of Go-Ferm per 5g packet of yeast for rehydration. - Add the yeast and aerate the must twice a day for 3 days. - Add 1/4 tsp of DAP and 1/4 tsp of Fermaid K per gal of must on the following schedule: --- At the end of the lag phase (i.e. when it first starts bubbling), add 1/3 of the DAP and 1/2 of Fermaid K. --- On day 2, add 1/3 of the DAP. --- On day 3 (1/3 sugar break), add the remaining DAP and Fermaid K. - For sparkling mead, use beer bottles or wine bottles with hoods. - Add 4 oz. of priming sugar and additional yeast ust before bottling. - Let the bottles sit for 3-5 days after bottling. - Once adequate carbonation has been achieved, place the bottles up to their necks in 150° water for 20 minutes to prevent further fermentation.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 23 - Specialty Beer
Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.112 | 1.026 - 1.120 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.011 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 0.3 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 13.4% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 0.0 IBU | 0 - 100 | |
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