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Today's Random Recipe
| Beer's Name: Tangerine Melomel |
Style: Mead
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Original Gravity: | 1.07 | | Final Gravity: | 1.018 | |
Alcohol (ABV): | 6.78% | |
Calories (per 12 oz.): | 233 |
| Total IBU (Bitterness): | 0 | |
SRM (color): | 2 |
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| Ingredients: (Portions for a 5 gallon batch) |
 | 10 lbs. | Honey |
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 | 1 oz | Irish Moss |
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| 3 tablet | Campden tablets |
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| 2 oz | Orange Peel |
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| 1 tsp | Yeast Nutrient |
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| 1 tsp | Citric Acid |
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| 4 oz | Ginger Root (grated) |
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| 10 Lbs. | Tangerines |
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 | 3 oz. | White Labs Sweet Mead (WLP720) |
Yeast (Ideal ferm. temp: 70-75°F) |
| Directions: |
Heat a gallon or so of water to hot but not boiling. dissolve your honey in this water. Add honey water to fermentation bucket. Add rest of water to cool down mixture. Add some pectin enzyme and 3 campden tablets or 1/4 tsp of potassium metabisulfite. Test your sugar and acid levels if you have the equipment to test with. At the very least test your sugar levels with a hydrometer and adjust to about 1.085 S.G. Add rest of ingredients except for the nutrient. Cover and seal for 12 to 24 hours. During this time get your yeast going in a yeast starter. After the 12-24 hours pitch your yeast. Ferment at cool temps until the yeast stop working. Your melomel should have some residual sugar left in it.
Rack the mead and begin the clearing process |
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| Primary Fermentor: |
10 days |
Secondary | 6 months |
In Bottles: | 2 months
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A beer please:
Cervisiam, sodes
(Ker-wi-see-am, soh-dehs)
-Latin
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