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Old 08-08-2011, 02:26 PM   #1
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Default Little Joe's Cream Soda Mead

Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: WLP 720
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Original Gravity: 1.120
Final Gravity: 1.015
Boiling Time (Minutes): 1
Color: Clear dark gold
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 60 days @ 72
Additional Fermentation: 21 days @ 72
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 60 days @ 72
Tasting Notes: Sweet, sparkling, and tasty

Primary
  • 15 lbs Clover Honey
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 5 tsp yeast nutrient
  • 1 Vial WLP 720
  • Water to 5 gal

Secondary
  • Gnome Cream Soda Extract

Bottling
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 cup water

Steps
Heat 2 qts water until steaming. Add honey to soften. Add nutrient to carboy and pour must on top. Add lemon juice and water to 5 gal. Add yeast.

When fermentation stops, rack on to cream soda extract. Let clear.

When bottling, boil 1 cup of water and add 3/4 cup sugar. Pour sugar solution into bottling bucket/carboy. Rack onto sugar solution and bottle. Let it sit for 3 weeks to carbonate.
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:27 PM   #2
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How much of the cream soda extract did you use?
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:37 PM   #3
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How much of the cream soda extract did you use?
Just one plastic vial (I think its 4 oz). One is recommended for up to 5 gal of cream soda.
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Is that the same as vanilla extract? Thanks
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Is that the same as vanilla extract? Thanks
No, its extract used for people to make cream soda. I think they call it "vanilla cream soda" extract.

Here ya go:

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/gnome-soda-extracts-crystal-clear-vanilla-cream-soda.html
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