Cinnamon Mead
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:42 pm
by rhino777
How much cinnamon should I put in a 5 gallon batch of mead? I want to taste it but not have it punch you in the face. Looks like there's a nice recipe on gotmead.com but you have to pay to read their forums. :/
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:01 pm
by yabodie
You have to pay to read some sections of the forum, but not all. Search on cinnamon and a lot of pages pop up.
With cinnamon I would say 3-6 sticks to start with, depending on the source and the size. If that is too little, add more...
EDIT: The latest Zymurgy has a recipe for cinnamon mead. They call for, I think, 50ml cinnamon oil in a 5 gallon batch or to taste in secondary.
Re: Cinnamon Mead
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:09 pm
by PaKettle
Another approach is to use cinnamon oil after the fermentation use like an eye dropper to you taste if you take care and measure out the drops you can get a repeatable result.
Re: Cinnamon Mead
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:12 pm
by jacbop
Similar to the cinnamon oil or extract, you can soak several cinnamon sticks in 6-8 oz of everclear or vodka for a couple of weeks and extract a pretty powerful cinnamon essence yourself.
Dose it via a medicine dropper in an 8 oz sample of mead until you achieve the flavor you want. There about 0.05 mL per drop and 80 cups in a 5 gal batch, so if 20 drops gets you the flavor you want, so can scale up to 80mL (or about 1/3 cup) per 5 gal. That is just an example though...don't dump in 1/3 cup without going through the whole process and tasting it!
Hope that helps,
jacbop
Midland, MI