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["Naomi Counides" <naomi@oznayim.us>]

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/pawpaw.asp

 

And there is Mead!!!.    You could do a couple of gallon jugs and try variations.. the wine and one with honey for mead.  You could increase the pawpaw content.. I would.  My brewing mentor told me that if I wanted it to taste like water, use water.. if I wanted it to taste like fruit.. use fruit.

 

We had a frost two nights ago and I am unloading the plum trees.  I already made 3 gallons of mead from the early plums… It turned out nice.  No off flavors but too harsh with alcohol. Time will work that out.

 

This time different plums and some star anise.   Still have one more tree and one more carboy.. thinking rosemary.  Might add a bit of lemon to one, the other, or both.

 

OT: Idaho is changing the dairy regs to allow small herd sales for human consumption.  They are really doing this right.  Will be testing finished product for cleanliness (bacterial counts etc).  Meeting tonight with head of dairy division of Dept of Ag to explain and answer questions. I am excited and delighted.

Naomi

 

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brungardt, Sam
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:34 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pawpaw beer?

 

There is a recipe for a pawpaw wheat beer at http://forums.morebeer.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31379 .  Perhaps this will be helpful. --

Sam Brungardt

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of R. Keith Etheridge
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:27 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] pawpaw beer?

 

As mentioned in the cider revival link , people have and do make alcoholic beverages with what's available. To simplify it, wine is made from the fermentation of fruit and

beer is from the fermentation of grain. This is   not absolute, as there is persimmon beer and I think sake is made from rice.As I now have an abundance of pawpaws,

I searched the internet for a pawpaw beer recipe. I could find none. In the NAFEX persimmon book there are three persimmon beer recipes from early America. On the

internet there several primitive beer recipes. Ten days ago I developed a recipe substituting pawpaws for persimmons using an Afro-American slave recipe with modifications. Six large pawpaws mashed with a cup of cornmeal baked to a loaf,cooled, put in a gallon container with eight honey locust  pods , broken in small pieces,

, a slice of toast and a packet of baking yeast and covered loosely.Water was added to make a gallon. Its kept on a plant propagation mat at 78 decrees.It seems to be

fermenting ok and most of the solids have sunk to the bottom. According to the recipes it will be evaluated in 20 days.Beer or slop? As I took biochemistry in "48 as

freshman in vet school at the University of Illinois.Suggestions welcomed.

Keith central Illinois

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