Sulfite before bottling?
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fatbloke
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Yes you normally would do i.e. 1 campden tablet crushed per gallon....
Well since it has antimicrobial effects as well as doubling as an antioxidant, you will be more susceptible to contamination and cardboard flavors, imo both very important when you consider a mead aging for years.
Just because some "chemical" has the power to prevent bacterial growth, it doesn't mean it has be treated like some poisonous pesticide, a common theme with some of the xenophobes on here.
If you're hypersensitive to sulfur, then yea that's one thing, but there's a good reason that the sulfiting process has taken place in one form or another for hundreds of years.
In the end it's your mead and you're entitled to go about it however you please
Just because some "chemical" has the power to prevent bacterial growth, it doesn't mean it has be treated like some poisonous pesticide, a common theme with some of the xenophobes on here.
If you're hypersensitive to sulfur, then yea that's one thing, but there's a good reason that the sulfiting process has taken place in one form or another for hundreds of years.
In the end it's your mead and you're entitled to go about it however you please
As long as you are sure the fermentation is 100% complete, and you keep the bottles chilled after bottling...nothing
Yeah, after 1 or 2 glasses of wine I have a pounding headache. I was told that it's probably due to sulfites and haven't had any issues drinking a bottle of my mead with no campden.
I guess if I was storing it for years this might be an issue but I can't see any of it lasting that long...
http://guides.wsj.com/wine/wine-tips-and-tricks/why-do-i-get-headaches-from-wine/
Tl;dr
Sulfites are now known to be innocent in the headache mystery, however we still don't know the exact answer to the problem. It's likely to be a combination of things, as is so often the case when dealing with human physiology.
Tl;dr
Sulfites are now known to be innocent in the headache mystery, however we still don't know the exact answer to the problem. It's likely to be a combination of things, as is so often the case when dealing with human physiology.
Over the course of my life I've gotten drunk countless times and most of the mornings after involved a splitting head ache anyway...so I'm not too concerned. I plan on keeping this batch for a while so I'l toss in a few camden tabs.
Cheers lads!
Cheers lads!
Well with dialysis patients they take to Much fluid off the body and they get sick like a hang over IV have been drinking 20 oz of water before bed after a night of drinking and have noticed that the next day I feel fine....
Thanks for the article, interesting stuff.
I should have clarified that the headache occurs instantly, not the next morning...
I'll try an experiment next time I bottle, adding campden to one bottle and nothing to the rest, see if it effects me.
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