[Sca-cooks] Killing the Yeast in Mead

[Elaine Koogler]

My lord husband, who has been making mead for many years, says he
never uses campden tablets to kill the yeast, only to sterilize the
bottles that the finished product goes into.  He rinses the bottles
out with campden and lets them air dry.

He says that he lets the alcohol content rise high enough to naturally
kill the yeast.  He uses a mead yeast for most of his meads.  The dead
yeast will fall to the bottom and he pours the mead off of the top.
If he wants to make a sparkling mead, he'll use a champagne yeast for
a second fermentation.

Hope this helps!

Kiri

>
> > I bought a book on basic brewing, and almost all their suggestions for Mead
> > is roughly; "Boil up honey and water, add yeast, leave for a week or two,
> > then add a campden (sulphur dioxide) tablet to stop fermentation, bottle and
> > store for 6+ months before drinking"

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