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• How to taste mead.
  • glassware.
  • evaluation sheet for mead tasting
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• Mead categories as defined by the beer judge certification program.
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• Tasting notes on commercial meads:
  
  • American meads
  • European meads

• Bees and honey history
• Etymology of the words mead and honey
• Historical tastes
• Mythology
• Mead history

• is making mead easy or hard?
  
  
• small batches
  
  
• Ingredients
  • honey [in the 'honey' section]
  • yeast
    • specifications of commercial yeast
  • water
• Equipment
  
  
• chemicals
  • sulfite
  • fining agents (bentonite, kieselsol, casein, isinglass, Sparkolloid, gelatin)
  • nutrients, acids, vitamine C, sorbic acid
  
  
• Procedure
  • Preparation
    • honey sanitation
  • Fermentation
    • judgement criteria
  • Time to bottle
    • Oak
  • Temperature
  • speed of fermentation
  • alcohol content as a function of original and final gravities. [pdf]
  
  
• Recipes
  • Mead styles
  • Adding fruits
  • Sparkling mead (méthode champenoise)
  • Sherry style mead
  
  
• Troubleshooting
  • Stuck fermentation
  • My mead looks funny
  • What's that smell?
  
  

• Varietal honeys
• Production
• Cooking
• Pollen, etc.
• composition of various honeys

• Atoms and molecules
• Chemical reactions
• pH
• Fermentation
• Density (specific_gravity)
• pH and acidity
• mathematical model of fermentation
• Calculation of the alcohol content

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• Who makes what mead?

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