Apple Juiced! NHC 2010

Category 25: Melomel (Fruit Mead)

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Sponsored by Bacchus and Barleycorn Ltd.

Rodney Kibzey, Lombard, Ill., Chicago Beer Society

NHC 2010 Meadmaker of the Year

Gold Medal

"Apple Juiced!"

Petillant, sweet sack cyser (Apple Melomel)

Ingredients for 5 U.S. gallons (18.93 L)

1.0 gal (3.79 L) Miller's orange blossom honey

4.0 gal (15.14 L) Michigan cider

1L White Labs WLP 720 Sweet Mead Yeast starter

Wyeast sweet mead yeast

1.5 vol. forced CO2 to carbonate

Original Specific Gravity: 1.120

Final Specific Gravity: 1.025

Boiling Time: n/a

Primary Fermentation: 6 months at 70° F (21° C) in glass

Secondary Fermentation: 18 months at 68° F (20° C) in glass

Directions

Keep it clean and give it some time.

Runners-Up

Silver Medal: Gordon Strong, Beavercreek, OH, Other Fruit Melomel, Saint Paul Homebrewers Club

Bronze Medal: Gordon Strong, Beavercreek, OH, Pyment (Grape Melomel), Saint Paul Homebrewers Club