bigirishape
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Ken Schramm, author of the Compleat Meadmaker, is petitioning the Tax and Trade Bureau to redefine how they classify "mead". As it stands, the recipe formulation is off and allows for beverages that aren't even made of 50% honey to be called "mead" which favors people who make mead with a high % of fruit concentrates in their beverages. Also, they fail to realize that beverages such as melomel, pyment, cyser, metheglin as sub-categories of mead, and therefore should be allowed to be labelled as such. A Melomel should be able to be labeled a "fruit mead" rather than being forced to be labeled a "Melomel" and confuse the general public.
Come check out the American Mead Makers Association Group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/392251727502250/)
Sign the petition! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/revise-ttb-regulations.fb31?source=s.icn.fb&r_by=2503511
Mods, any chance of this getting stickied for a while?
Ken Schramm, author of the Compleat Meadmaker, is petitioning the Tax and Trade Bureau to redefine how they classify "mead". As it stands, the recipe formulation is off and allows for beverages that aren't even made of 50% honey to be called "mead" which favors people who make mead with a high % of fruit concentrates in their beverages. Also, they fail to realize that beverages such as melomel, pyment, cyser, metheglin as sub-categories of mead, and therefore should be allowed to be labelled as such. A Melomel should be able to be labeled a "fruit mead" rather than being forced to be labeled a "Melomel" and confuse the general public.
Come check out the American Mead Makers Association Group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/392251727502250/)
Sign the petition! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/revise-ttb-regulations.fb31?source=s.icn.fb&r_by=2503511
Mods, any chance of this getting stickied for a while?