Mead Journal: "The Limey" or "A sailor's tea"

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Well, I finally juiced 10 pounds of lime juice.  Suprisingly it isn't much volume. 10 pounds is actually 6 cups of Lime juice.  Quite potent stuff.  Thinking a 6 gallon batch I will use 3 cups of Lime juice in the secondary with 20 pounds Alfalpha honey.  The original mix is the same as the Rockbiter mead, just still honey mead of a very sweet level.  Adding about 3-4 cups of Lime juice to the secondary should give t a distinctive lime taste but still on the subtle side. Going to start the primary this weekend.  Then hopefully the secondary will be about the begining of June.  About Mid-June I plan on doing the watermellon, Hmm, I know that the height of watermellon season is July 4th but should be some good ones at that time.  Should keep an eye on the stores.

I was thinking calling the Lime Mead "The Limey" or "Sailor's Tea".    Hmm, Sailor's Tea sounds better to me but The Limey is probably more catchy.  I was thinking on Limestone as a play off of the Rockbitter brew.  That is a bit cheasy though.  The Primary fermentation will take about 2 weeks.  Lime Juice is fairly resilient, I am going to freeze what I don't use though.  I have high hopes for a very subtle and sweet alternitive to the Rockbitter that may appeal to those Corona type drinkers or more of the bear croud.  I am not going to put in spanish moss as I have seen some recipies for mead call for.  I wonder what it does to the flavor.