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[eldernerd]

Hello, I just made my first 5 gallon batch of maple mead. Of course I used the no boil method (thanks hightest)

 

12 lbs local wildflower honey

1 gal vermont maple syrup grade b

3.75 gallons spring water.

10 grams lalvin K1-v1116

 

NAS table used and added Fermaid-k only

 

the OG calculated to 1.131 but was actually about 1.141

 

When it reached 75 Deg I rehhdrated and pitched the yeast.

The next morning I had very happy yeast.

 

I have a Question and hope someone can help. I read somewhere that you should not shake or stir the mead.

 

Should I stir it daily, every other day or leave it alone?

 

Thanks very much

 

[eldernerd]

Hello, Well its been over a month, the maple mead has done its thing. I tasted it while racking it off into jugs. (i want some fizzy). All I can say is WOW. If this gets better with age I'll have to hide the whole batch. It could be I just love Bonnies Maple syrup so much ,,, but naah. the wife wants to drink it now and its only partially cleared. Its at  SG 1.015 and thats just seams purfect. Everything seems to have stopped and like I said its clearing up. Does it need to be stabilized or should I leave it alone?

Thanks very much.

Wheres hightest ? My thanks you's to him for inspiring me to make this mead. Really!

[armagh]

 

That's him on the left at a city council meeting in Bridgeton, NJ, on which he serves and which apparently consumes all of his time these days.  I believe he said he'd be checking in once and a while but doesn't have the time to devote to the mead related aspects of internet boards.

[Genesee Ted]

Sounds like a winner.  I bet maple syrup would be a wonderful addition to a spiced cyser 

[eldernerd]

Theres a Mead called Kurts apple pie. Its a spiced cyser. Its listed as using Honey, New Hampshire fresh cider, Natural Vanilla, Cinnamon. I love the suggestion of some Maple B Syrup in it. Guess I'll be doing it tomorrow. I'll make a gallon test batch tomorrow. I'm thinkin g about 1/2 cup maple syrup for a gallon batch. 2 lbs of wildflower honey and 71b yeast. I have a gallon ( 2.... 1/2 gallons really) of  pasturised trader joes cider in the fridge

 

SG 1.112 FG 1.007   Crash it at about 1.007

 

I have one concern, Should I sulfite the cider befor I use it?

[neddles]

If it's pasteurized as you say then it should be good to go.