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Riesling Pyment


Classification: mead, pyment

Source: Jackie Brown (BROWN@MSUKBS.BITNET) Issue #184, 6/24/89


This is more winey than your straight mead, but very pleasant. Medium dry and spritzig---very nice as a table wine. Those of you set up to crush your own grapes might try a grape honey mix. A drink of noble history!

Ingredients:

Procedure:

Boil honey, acid, enzyme and Riesling extract for 1 hour (I have since learned that honey is best not boiled; subsequent batches have been made by holding the mixture for 2 hours). Cool and pitch yeast. Rack to secondary after 8 days. Bottle after 4 months.

Specifics: