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I did a small edit under the Meadmaking 101 page regarding sanitizer. I’ve been using StarSan for the last few years and highly recommend it for sanitizing. It is easier than bleach or potassium metabisulfate, in my opinion.

I now have a post under Meadmaking 101; Bottling. Please check it out. That post is making it obvious to me that I need to give you all information on the equipment I use. Stay tuned for that information!

I have added a post “Using Puree” under the tab “Choosing Ingredients.”  It could have gone under several places, but I chose to put it there based on the other discussions of choosing fruits and vegetables.  Puree is a viable option for fruit if you know how to use it.

I added a new failure to The Agony of Defeat.  Just being a model of imperfection to you all.

Feel free to share your failures.  It makes us all feel better!  Oh, and we learn something from them.

Due to moving five times in three years, I have not been able to make mead, focus on mead, or write about mead.  It has been a dark time for the rebellion!  However, we are stable now in a new home with a mead closet and I can resume my meadmaking.  I have added a new page (see the tabs above) regarding figuring the calories in mead.  Please check it out.  I’m hoping that I can actually keep up with this blog now that I can quit moving.

Go raibh maith agaibh, thank you all.

Hail!

Today I added some books to the bibliography, some words to the glossary, and “The Right Yeast” under the Choosing Ingredients tab. I also finished “Racking, Clarifying & Filtering” under the Meadmaking 101 tab. Best of luck in your meadmaking adventures!! Let me know if you have any questions.

Stay tuned for more…

See, I told you I would get to new content! The Right Yeast now has content. I will update on the main page here as I add to my other pages. I’ll also be adding to the bibliography and glossary as I go.

Thanks to everyone who has visited, asked questions, and been patient. This shows you will all be terrific meadmakers!

First, let me apologize to anyone who has asked questions or left comments in the last few months. I have tried multiple times to change my email to my current email, but never get a confirmation email from WordPress in order to do this. I am still working on it. I will try my best to check my Dashboard for messages at least every other day now that I realize what is going on, and will answer the questions already asked, although I assume you all found answers elsewhere.

Plus, I broke my ankle in November and my world pretty much stopped for a while.

I know, I know. I keep promising updates. After my last promise, I took a new job and moved cross country. I will do a post on the pain of moving mead yourself…later. When I’m over the trauma.

Anyway, I am starting the process of updating posts (starting with Show Meads), putting on recipes and getting back to it! I also added a page of my greatest failures (The Agony of Defeat). This would be a great time to ask any questions or make a note of what you would like updated first.

Remember, “The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.”

I realize it’s been a while.  Well, over a year actually.  I apologize to my three followers and five fans. 🙂  I know I have not written, but I have not been idle.  I have made over 50 gallons of mead now, and 48 different recipes.  I realized that I needed to wait on many of them until they had aged a couple of years.  How could I give you recipes and tips that I have not tried?  Then I had to give the experiments time to age.  And age they did!!  No new links are done yet, but I will be updating shortly.  In the meantime, I’m drinking some 2 year old mead.  Oh, yeah…