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Apple and Grape Mead 1517 Epulario by de Roselli

For 2018, I’ve decided to each week (approximately), present a recipe or source for mead that I do not believe has been widely seen. The focus will be on the raw historical information. With no further ado I offer the … Continue reading

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Tasting Notes

This week I tasted three brews I bottled up this year. The first was a bochet, made using the specific proportions in the 1393 recipe. With a starting gravity of 1.053, that’s a bit under 1.5 pounds per gallon honey. … Continue reading

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Musing on Lobel’s Meth

Today I posted a recipe for a spiced mead from 1609. The recipe was published in Charles Butlers ‘The Feminine Monarchy’ about bees with an attribution to Matthias Lobel.  See here Lobel’s Meth The redaction for the recipe itself was interesting, … Continue reading

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