25B - Pyment

Info:

• Brewer: Chris
• Date: 10/18/2008
• Type: Pyment (mead made with grapes)
• Size: 6 gallons
  

Ingredients:

• 1 gallon (12 pounds) clover honey
• 2 tsp. yeast nutrient]
• 20 pounds of 3 unknown varieties of wine grapes (2 red, 1 white)
  

Yeast:

• 1 pkg. Red Star Premier Cuvee yeast (starter made in advance)
• 1 pkg Wyeast 4366 "Distiller's M-Series"
  

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I based this largly on Cindy's traditional dry mead (24A).

The fruit has been picked a few days before. It had been washed and frozen, to break them down to make the yeast's job easier.

Heated 3 gallons of water to 160F, stired in honey, let sit 15 minutes, and cooled. Moved to fermenter and pitched yeast. A few weeks later, I added the grapes and pitched in the Wyeast 4366...

TO BE CONTINUED