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Prickly Pear Cactus Mead

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Prickly Pear Cactus Mead

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Beer Style: Open Category Mead  (26C)
Recipe Type: other
Yield: 5 US gallons

Open Category Mead

Description:

This is Dave Spaulding's version that won the grand prize at the 1986 Arizona State Fair.

Ingredients:

  • 20 pounds, Mesquite honey
  • 75-100, ripe prickly pear cactus fruits
  • 2 packs, sherry wine yeast

Additional Instructions

Secondary Ferment: 5 months

Beer Profile

Original Gravity: 1.158
Final Gravity: 1.050
Alcohol by Vol: 14.14%
Recipe Type: other
Yield: 5.00 US Gallons

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Procedure:

See Papazian's book. This recipe was based on it.

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