Small batch question

[BigKahuna]

MMM...Less than a month is NOTHING in the life of a mead.

This thread won't be old until this time next year.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

First an update:

We added the flavorings on Day 14 as listed below:

001 – 2 ½ Tablespoons Tamarind Paste
002 – 1 vanilla bean cut into small pieces
003 – 1 Orange sliced into pieces that fit into the bottle, peals left on and a cinnamon stick
004 – 20oz cut fresh peaches
005 – 20oz cut fresh strawberries
006 – Plain, nothing added

Hi brauhausjoe: I'm curious as to just how you arrived at the rate of 2 1/2 tablespoons tamarind paste per gallon. I finally found some tamarind paste (Tamicon brand) but it's a concentrate & the so-called directions on the label are a bit sketchy, but it's all I could get. I got the last jar on the shelf. I'm not quite ready to start a new fermentation yet, still waiting for the lcl apple harvest & pressing to start; so I've been trying to do some flavour tests with apple juice & tamarind soda, but it's a far cry from using the concentrate & there's a lot of guesswork involved. Is the stuff you used just the straight paste, or is it also a concentrate? BTW, nice pics of your experiments, thanks for sharing. Regards, GF.

 

[brauhausjoe]

Well for pods it was 10 or so to the gallon, so that's probably equivalent to 1/8 cup of paste per gallon

I got the above info from Freezblade earlier in the thread. so I went with it. I am very new at both Mead and Tamarind, I am going with the adjust as needed method. I will keep this thread alive with the results. After tasting it, I might add 3 tablespoons of the concentrate. I might also try to find a better way to get it in the jug. I probably lost 1/2 Tablespoon stuck to the side of the jug. I think next time we will warm it up a bit to help it pour.

Tonight we are racking off the fruit/flavorings for a clearing stage and then off to bottles for a few months.

We are also going to do the exact same experiment but add the fruits to the primary, if you want I can post the results here or start a new thread?

I have more detail here: Swamp Water Brewery: The First set of Mead experiments.

 

[brauhausjoe]

We racked to 6 more 1 Gal Jugs for a clarifying step. We added 1.5 Tablespoons Chitosan and .25 Teaspoon Potassium Sorbate to each 1 Gal Jug and racked the mead into it. We tasted each one in the transfer (Yes, we know it is way to early (- Here is what we discovered:

Tamarind – Slight flavor, but good.
Vanilla – Wow! That unexpectedly nice.
Orange / Cinnamon – Good, light on the cinnamon
Peach – good but a little weak
Strawberry – Good as expected
Plain – Good as expected

Here is day 1:

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Thanks for the updates, I'll keep an eye on this thread, or another if you decide to post it thus; as I'm curious as to how the tamarind turns out. I'm wondering if you left the fuzzy skins of the peaches on?

 

[brauhausjoe]

Thanks, I think we will open a new thread fro the second experiment.

The peaches are pealed....

 

[cmgreczyn]

hey, how did these all turn out?

 

[brauhausjoe]

hey, how did these all turn out?

Still sittin in the bottle. Planning on opening them up this summer

We will keep the thread updated.

 

[Freezeblade]

My "Aztec gold" mead (the one with all the cinnimon/ancho/tamarind in it) was bottled 3 months or so ago, I'm planning on opening one once it gets a year old, which should be sometime in April, I'll post notes at that time.

 

[brauhausjoe]

My "Aztec gold" mead (the one with all the cinnimon/ancho/tamarind in it) was bottled 3 months or so ago, I'm planning on opening one once it gets a year old, which should be sometime in April, I'll post notes at that time.

Please! should be quite interesting.

Here is another experiment we kicked off. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/our-chocolate-mead-experiment-94358/

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Any updates?

 

[Revvy]

Um...I don't think any of the participants of this thread, besides me, are still around.

 

[fatbloke]

Um...I don't think any of the participants of this thread, besides me, are still around.

That's a bit of a bugger, as some of the flavourings mentioned earlier in the thread sound very intriguing.......

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I like when old threads get bumped, and you get to read the whole thread in one sitting. Too bad it looks like there'll be no updates, it sounded cool.