{"id":316,"date":"2008-08-10T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-08-10T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:16:12","slug":"another-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/08\/another-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My traditional mead, the one that took years to make took the gold in the 24B (Traditional, semi-sweet) category at the mead-only Arizona Mead Cup. (<a href=\"http:\/\/brewarizona.org\/index_files\/pdf\/MeadCupResults2008.pdf\">results<\/a>) This one goes back before the Great Hard Drive Crash, where (combined with a freak that-directory-didn&#8217;t-get-backed-up-bug) my early meadmaking records were lost. But there are a few hints left online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.360.yahoo.com\/blog-bKq6zTQ8f7NO6pp3_3b2GA--?cq=1&amp;p=7\">Here it is<\/a>, in Jan 2006, almost through fermentation. How nice and clear it looks. It was started in November of 2005 with some of the clearest orange blossom honey I&#8217;ve ever seen, from Pam the honey lady at the Mountain View Farmer&#8217;s Market. I literally lost an entire night of sleep over this batch, when I incorrectly added some runoff from oak chips.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this was about my 4th batch of mead <strong>ever<\/strong>. I also bottled it way too soon. It carbonated up in the bottles, and had an unbalanced sweetness to it (called &#8220;insipid&#8221; in the tasting lingo). I had to un-bottle it, put it back in a fermenter, and add a carefully-measured dose of wine tannin, giving it just that bit of bite that balances the sweetness. It also darkened the color noticeably, which I wasn&#8217;t too happy about. Can&#8217;t argue with results, though.<\/p>\n<p>The only other problem: There are only 6 bottles of this left in the world. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My traditional mead, the one that took years to make took the gold in the 24B (Traditional, semi-sweet) category at the mead-only Arizona Mead Cup. (results) This one goes back before the Great Hard Drive Crash, where (combined with a freak that-directory-didn&#8217;t-get-backed-up-bug) my early meadmaking records were lost. But there are a few hints left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,235],"tags":[281,282,280,279,283,1178],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-mead","tag-award","tag-competition","tag-gold","tag-homebrew","tag-judging","tag-mead"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-56","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}