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I enjoyed the interaction with the members and hopefully you took away some tips to make some Mead

Cleanliness is important !!!!!! Any honey can be used. DONT USE BREAD YEAST !!!!

Local resources for equipment and ingredients:
Big Dans Brewshed off of 68 (5 stars )
Triad Homebrew cnr Market and Guilford College rd (4 stars)
5th Season - lower Battleground Rd ( Not used recently)

Internet :
Northern brewer (5 stars) two days to get to us - fixed shipping costs on most items
More Beer (4 stars) 5 days as in Ca, also some fixed shipping costs
many many more suppliers these days

I will be posting up the slides a few at a time, and here is a PDF for anyone to download the full presentation:http://www.guilfordbeekeepers.org/wp-co ... d_2013.pdf

I was ably helped by Tim, Derick and Scarlett
Scarlett is a new Beek (member of the club), and daughter of a Beekeeper from Tn







The BBG http://www.battlegroundbrewers.com is the oldest Homebrew club in Piedmont area and one of three active clubs these days - Winston Salem has the Worthawgs and High Point has HOPS

White Labs and Wyeast are Liquid Yeasts, rest are Dry packs

Here is a link to the original in high quality http://www.beelab.umn.edu/prod/groups/c ... 317478.pdf



Starrlight Meadery is in Hillsborough NC - very helpful

Touch of lemon juice helps with acid... finings are used to Clarify the Must and are essentially flocculants - Knox Gelatine, Isingglas, Bentonite are typical ones



Best book out there is Ken's :
http://www.amazon.com/The-Compleat-Mead ... 0937381802
http://www.amazon.com/Brewing-Mead-Step ... ewing+mead
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Wild-Wines ... +and+meads




Some online resources



http://www.buckshoalsvineyards.com not working !!
http://www.foxhillmead.com
http://www.redstonemeadery.com
http://www.blacksnakemead.com
http://www.northernbrewer.com
http://www.morebeer.com
http://starrlightmead.com/
http://www.bnektar.com/
http://www.gotmead.com/forum/index.php? ... 45bffdfdee

Lastly , I would be most welcome to help anyone with advice or even a loan of some equipment for a proofing first Mead



Our BBG Club members in turn are always looking for bulk honey too , by the gallon usually.