Orris Root in Mead Making

This earthy Iris root, a little bit sweet, a little bit bitter and smelling like violets is not just used for its flavour, it is what is known by perfumers as a fixative. It helps bind aromas and keeps them in the liquid suspension. For this reason alone, it is one of the more common ingredients in Gin and is a flavour one might well notice missing from a normal profile. It is the bringer of floral notes to many gins.

I have not seen Orris Root in mead recipes and am surprised by this. It has that same effect of binding aromas and releasing them slowly, as more and more mead makers discover this it will become more prevalent in use.

Many meads have a full aroma that very quickly blows off in the glass. Adding Orris Root to your Meads will slow down the releases of those aromas and create a Mead that keeps its aromas throughout the entire dinner, not just the first glass. 

I use Orris root whenever I use florals, it just works so well at giving a longer lasting aromatic mead.

For the science oriented, it is well worth heading off on a journey to see just how Orris root binds volatile flavours in mead.

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