New Mead Book - The Complete Guide to Making Mead

[WVMJ]

The Complete Guide to Making Mead

by Steve Piatz. Got this book this week, very nice modern noboil enhance the varietal essence mead making book from a beer brewers outlook, good SOP on yeast nutrients and SNA. My only major difference with this book is that we use KM more readily but we are also from a winemaking school vs a beer brewers. WVMJ

 

[Yooper]

The Complete Guide to Making Mead

by Steve Piatz. Got this book this week, very nice modern noboil enhance the varietal essence mead making book from a beer brewers outlook, good SOP on yeast nutrients and SNA. My only major difference with this book is that we use KM more readily but we are also from a winemaking school vs a beer brewers. WVMJ

Do you have Ken Schramm's "The Compleat Meadmaker"? If so, can you compare the differences?

 

[WVMJ]

NO HEAT WHATSOEVER, no boiling honey, no boil the water and dump the honey in to pasteurize it, modern view of SNA concluding at 30% vs 50%, overall a more concise modern approach without a bunch of telling you to do it one way and then in a single paragraph saying that isnt how I do it anyway, never figured out that approach, but of course Ken does have a professional Meadery and can sell mead for real and has lots of fans and followers. It seems from reading KS that a lot of beerm brewing influenced mead making such as all the pasteurizing honey etc. New book is clearly a beer brewer perspective, only real difference in what a lot of mead makers do is in the use of sulfites. I would own both books as well as Morse as a basic meadmaking reference library. New book perfect for members of this site who have a background in beer brewing as well as anyone else who wants to make mead better.

WVMJ