In this powerpoint talk, we’ll be looking at the various steps in making a good mead. Mead making is very easy but there are a few critical steps that must be followed in order to make good mead. We will be discussing the various different types of mead, how to choose the best ingredients, what equipment is needed, how to prepare the must, special fermentation techniques, aging mead, serving mead and how to evaluate mead quality.
In this powerpoint talk, we’ll be looking at the various steps in making a good mead. Mead making is very easy but there are a few critical steps that must be followed in order to make good mead. We will be discussing the various different types of mead, how to choose the best ingredients, what equipment is needed, how to prepare the must, special fermentation techniques, aging mead, serving mead and how to evaluate mead quality.
In this powerpoint talk, we’ll be looking at the various steps in making a good mead. Mead making is very easy but there are a few critical steps that must be followed in order to make good mead. We will be discussing the various different types of mead, how to choose the best ingredients, what equipment is needed, how to prepare the must, special fermentation techniques, aging mead, serving mead and how to evaluate mead quality.
The American Honey Tasting Society is the only organization in the United States to teach the methods
of sensory analysis of honey developed by The Italian Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey.
Bee-licious: Taste Honey Like a Sommelier With Marina Marchese
Online Class Register at Atlas Obscura
Staging your honey tasting before the workshop
Your Kit contains:
1. Taste vs. Flavor exercise - Labeled (0)
2. 9 Aroma cups - Labeled (a-e)
3. 5 uni-floral honeys - Labeled (1-5)
Folder:
4. 1 Honey aroma/flavor wheel with honey color chart on backside
5. 5 honey score sheets
6. 3 black jar honeys jars
How to use this kit:
1. Taste vs. Flavor - EXERCISE 0
IMPORTANT! Read all the directions below first before starting this exercise.
1. Take mini cup with 0 on lid.
2. DO NOT OPEN YET
3. Close nostrils with one hand
4. Hold cup with the other hand keeping your thumb free to pop lid off
5. Pour some granules onto your tongue with nose closed
6. Let it melt on your tongue. What do you taste?
7. Unplug your nostrils, what you taste?
2. Olfactory Exercise 5 aroma cups (a-e)
Open each cup, smell the material, guess the material by smell alone.
Try to locate similar smells on the honey wheel.
If you are unable to identify the material inside the cup, try to describe it.
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*Continue training your nose to memorize smells and flavors by smelling various kitchen spices, essential oils, garden herbs and cooking ingredients. The larger your smell and flavor vocabulary is, the better taster you become. We all work at our own pace.
3. Honey score sheets – 5 sheets
Writing tasting notes for each honey sample using the honey flavor wheel
Increase your vocabulary sharpen your skills to identify odors and flavors
Use your personal references, but not hedonic terms
Wait between samples! Drink some water, eat an apple slice
Your challenge is to memorize each honey by smell and flavor
Single origin honey sample evaluation
Use one sheet to write tasting notes for each honey 1-5
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