1-Gallon Mead Recipe Testers for Upcoming Book?

[EmmaC]

Hi, everyone! I'm working on a book of homebrewing projects due out next spring and am looking for a few brave souls willing to test mead recipes. They're one-gallon batches, meads, melomels, and metheglins. The only special equipment you might need is a 2-gallon bucket for primary fermentation and a 1-gallon (or 4-liter) jug for the secondary -- all the other equipment is the same no matter what size batch you normally brew.

In exchange for your help, your name will be memorialized for eternity in the acknowledgements of the book (oh, the glory!), and I'll send you a free copy of the book.

I'm hoping to get feedback on the recipes through at least primary fermentation by the beginning of July. If you're interested, please send me a private message with your email address and we can get the party started.

Thanks!

 

[TheBrewingMedic]

Sounds pretty interesting, will have to get on it real soon to have results by june.

 

[Insomniac]

Also could be interested but dont have any empty fermenters currently :-(

 

[TheBrewingMedic]

Insomniac, make friends with someone at local recycling center, I get a steady flow of 1,4 and 5 gallon containers that are good for fermenters, glass and plastic, he would give me a lot more but some of it is cheap crap that wouldn't be suitable

 

[motobrewer]

so, what do we do, make a gallon of mead and let you know how it turned out?

 

[TheBrewingMedic]

so, what do we do, make a gallon of mead and let you know how it turned out?

Send them a private message letting them know you are interested in participating and your regular email address and they get back to you with available recipes and if you want to proceed they send you the detailed recipe and step by step instructions, then you make it and fill out questionaires/evaluation forms.

 

[bob1852]

So you're writing a book about unfinished/unproven recipes of mead, wine, and cider?

 

[Insomniac]

They won't be unproven once they get feedback!

 

[motobrewer]

"Recipes that random people on the internet thought were good; a treatise"

 

[bob1852]

They won't be unproven once they get feedback!

I'd rather have feedback after the mead, wine, cider has aged for awhile. I'm not interested in book that provides this:

I'm hoping to get feedback on the recipes through at least primary fermentation

 

[bob1852]

"Recipes that random people on the internet thought were good; a treatise"

That'll sell more than Schramm's book!

 

[TheBrewingMedic]

have any of the rest of you sent the message to find out what's actually being done?

 

[ExoticMeadMaker]

have any of the rest of you sent the message to find out what's actually being done?

No. like the rest of the people on the internet I briefly read up on the topic and formed a uncompromising opinion on the subject :rockin:

 

[Insomniac]

I havent, but only because I dont have any space for a new batch yet and wont have in the time scale posted.

 

[EmmaC]

Hi, everyone! I'm all set with recipe testers for now. Thanks so much for the great response!

In reply to some of the above: I've been developing these recipes myself over the past year + and have gotten feedback on how they taste. This round of testing is more to make sure that my recipe instructions make sense, can be followed by a newbie brewer, I didn't overlook mentioning something obvious, etc. The publisher needs feedback by June/July, which is why I have that first deadline. But I'll be following up with testers through the end of the year to see how the meads are coming along in terms of taste.