Summary: From Aaron Martin: Aaron Martin experiments with varietals. Find out how this amateur mead maker took a large step forward in the quality of his homebreww on this week’s premier episode of themeadhouse.com podcast! I racked these four 1 gallon traditionals comparing cranberry blossom, blueberry blossom, raspberry blossom and sunflower blossom honey varietals. Even after an initial mishap, in just 1 month of primary fermentation they are already smoother and cleaner tasting than many of my other batches are between 1-6 years of aging. Tune in Tuesday at 9:00 eastern to find out how I did it! From JD Webb: A friend, Jim Davis of Colorado has been corresponding with me, we’ve spent some time talking about my Rube Goldberg projects. He sent me an email a few days ago wanting to know what I thought of a pump-over system for a home setup. He showed me a video from Melovino Meadery of how their system works so I thought we’d talk about it and figure out a way a home mead maker might incorporate it into a home system. From Jeff Shrouse: Jeff’s nutrient experiment. Jeff is doing an experiment comparing different types of nutrient asdditions using both Fermaid K, DAP and Fermaid O. Based on a single 5 gallon batch of traditional mead, he split it into five 1 gallon carboys to run the experiment. Jeff’s goal is to measure both objective measures such as time to complete fermentation, final SG, pH, stalling activity, as well as more subjective qualities such as flavor or mouthfeel differences to settle on a preferred protocol to adapt for future recipes for all my brews. From Chris Spencer: Mississippi Chris is on the mend from a rather bad auto accident last week. He did say he would call the show in between sponge baths and chicken feedings. We’ll also check on the Heart Murmur project, a Ken Schramm Heart of Darkness knockoff.
