Six of us gathered for a great evening that began with a tasting. Not just any tasting, it concluded a three year experiment that tested the effect of boiling on making mead. Two meads went head to head that night. I made one with a ten minute boil, and the other was as identical as [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Judging An Experiment With A Tasting Party
Posted in experiments, tasting on Oct 20th, 2008
Best of Twitter! You are 90 percent more likely to buy red wine if you buy onions & more the wine industry has learned about you: http://bit.ly/brPFFg Follow Washington Winemaker on Twitter. I love to experiment in my winemaking, and that means being just as careful about judging the experimental wines and meads as it [...]
A 9-Liter Measuring Cup
Posted in DIY equipment on Oct 15th, 2008
Maybe you’re trying to add just the right amount of sugar to your must, or measure out crystallized honey for mead. If you make wine or mead long enough, you’ll want to measure large quantities of liquid. I have a 2-cup (500 ml) measuring cup, but that didn’t cut it when I needed to measure [...]
Making Wine: What I Learned From An Economist
Posted in tasting on Oct 8th, 2008
Greg Mankiw teaches economics at Harvard University, and I read his blog regularly. He recently spotlighted part of a Boston Globe Article on the lighter side of science. He zeroed in on the work of another economist – ok, I know what you’re thinking, “as exciting as one economist talking about another sounds, what the [...]
Honey Prices: A bull market in this liquid asset
Posted in mead on Oct 6th, 2008
If you make a lot of mead, you buy a lot of honey. I like to buy in bulk and keep an eye on prices – there’s been a lot to keep an eye on in the seven months since my last price report. The stable prices in March have given way to much more [...]
Apple Mead
Posted in apple wine, mead on Oct 1st, 2008
I’ll often make a fruit mead the way you would make a second wine. I made a cherry mead like that last year, for example, and I’ll make an apple mead the same way. I saved the pulp from apples I juiced to make wine, put it in a ziplock bag, and froze it. That’s [...]